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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,861
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY. JULY 16, 1951
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Record Crowd
Attends Elks
Picnic
The largest annual Elks picnic in
many years was held at the Auke
Bay beach Sunday afternoon. At
tendance estimates varied up to
1,600. Great quantities of food dis
appeared and when the final clean
up came there were only four bot
tles of soda pop left.
Serving started at 2 p.m. and con
tinued with double lines, cafeteria
style until after 4 o'clock. Con
sumed were six big hams, 26 gal
lops of. potato salad, 40 loaves of
bread, 1,600 buns, 1,700 hot dogs,
1,500 ice cream cones, 1300 bottle of
pop, 2,000 beers, 60 gallons of cof
fee, two gallons of mustard and two
gallons of relish, according to com
mittee chairman Robert Faulkner.
Curs jammed the Glacier High
way fqr .mtles on either side of the
picnic area creating traffic and
parking problems.
Activities for youngsters Included
pony rides, sack and relay races, pie
and watermelon eating contests. A
nail-driving contest was held for
the women. Gus Gissberg served as
starter for the races. Club chair
officers supervised the games. Many
took advantage of the warm water
for swimming, making the beach a
small Coney Island.
A tug-of-war was held between
the committee men and the past
exalted rulers with the PERSs los
ing, even with the help of visiting
PER William Stump of Ketchikan.
As part of the cleanup activities,
children were given a penny for
each bottle returned to a central
collecting station. After it was all
over, a check showed that the area
was left in a clean condition.
Assisting Faulkner as members
of the activities committee were
James Burnett, Charles Kennedy,
Rudy Krusl, Art Harold, Dr. John
Geyer. and Jim Fennell in addition
to many others.
—Acting Exalted Ruler Ed Peyton
today expressed his thanks to all
who assisted to make the affair a
success. He even included the
weatherman who provided a cloud
less day.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, July 16 — Ifll—Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau
mine stock is 2 '-i, American Cali
108%, American Tel. and Tel. 154 4,
Anaconda 38%, Douglas Aircraft
46%, General Electric 55%, General
Motors 48 %, Goodyear 83%, Kenne -
cott 71%, Libby, McNeill and Libl <y
8%, Northern Pacific 41 Vi, Stands rd
Oil of California 45%, Twentieth
Century Fox 18%, U. S. Steel 3f/%,
Pound $2.80 1/16, Canadian Ex
change 94.06*4.
Sales today were 1,200,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 252.31, rails 75.60, utili
ties 43.50.
AT HOTEL JUNEAU
Sgt. William F. Kelleigh of the
Alaska Communications System is
staying at Hotel Juneau.
B. H. Parkinson of the Coastwise
Steamship Co. of San Francisco, is
registered at the BaranoV hotel.
TheWashmgton
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(CoDTrlKbt. 1951. BT Bell tmdMM, IHC.I
GOP Targets for ’52
A frank outline of GOP campaign
strategy for 1952 was presented to
key Republican Senators’ assistants
by Ab Hermann, the energetic na
tional committee executive director,
in a private meeting the other
night.
The tall, banjo-eyed Hermann,
onetime big-league ballplayer, con
fided: “We won Senate seats last
year wherever we took our gloves
off. There were only two states we
should have taken and didn’t, and
that was because our nominees re
fused to punch hard—Missouri and
Connecticut.
"Why,” complained Hermann, “we
had to bootleg speakers like Mc
Carthy into Connecticut.”
“The "prime targets” in 1950, he
said, were Scott Lucas in Illinois;
Francis Myers in Pennsylvania;
Elbert Thomas of Utah, and Mil
lard Tydings of Maryland.
Turning to Frank Smith, assist
ant to Sen. John M. Buitler, who
defeated Tydings, Hermann contin
ued: "We did a beautiful job in
Maryland and Utah, Frank. I don’t
see why the Democrats yelled so
much about the composite picture
in your campaign, when, hy com
parison with the anti-Thomas
(Continued on Page Four)
Soap Box Derby
Racers Priming
For Big Race
Soap Box Derby cars are being
completed this week for the big
race next Sunday afternoon, spon
sored jointly by the Rotary Club
and Daily Alaska Empire,
Trial Runs will be held this eve
ning and Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday evenings at 7 o’clock on
Eleventh Street hill. Cars and dri
vers will be weighed in at the Fri
day trial runs with cars taken from
the boys at that time. The only ex
ception will be for those cars need
ing final adjustments. These will
oe turned in Saturday.
Drivers will be given a chance to
paint their cars on Tuesday with
no trial runs held that day.
Drawings for heat positions will
be held before the race at 12:30
o'clock. Location will be announced
later. Soap Box Derby helmets and
T-shirts will be given to the dri
vers then.
The Soap Box derby race is
xheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday on
Twelftlj Street hill with a pare.de
of cars and drivers preceding the
race. Twelfth Street is used because
Eleventh Street is partially blocked
by a house.
The four Sitka cars arrived Sat
urday afternoon on the Alask a Coa
stal Airlines PBY. Sitka racers ar
rive Thursday afternoon on the air
lines, with trial runs Thursday and
Friday evenings devoted e.lmost en
tirely to them. They aje Harold
Donnelly. Jr., Lawrence Porter,
Robert Chernikoff, and Bruce
Brown.
Prizes awarded in the local race
are:
Best upholstered ear: Jig saw, fi
ler and sander; the best construc
ted car: tool set-, best sportsman:
no prize announced; winner of the
local race: plac.ue and trip to the
All-American S.oap Box Derby. Ak
ron, Ohio. Cnher prizes will be
awarded heat winners. A jackknife
is given each racer.
The prizes/ will be awarded at the
Rotary Clu o luncheon July 24.
Sitka Mill
Expansion
Gels Okay
The first or four timber projects
slated for Southeast Alaska was ap
proved today by the Defense Pro
duction Administration, according
to a dispatch to The Empire from
the Associated Press in Washington,
D.C.
The dispatch said that approval
had been given for rapid tax amorti
zation for half of the nearly $120,000
cost of a new power plant and mod
ernization of the Columbia Lumber
Lumber Company mill at Sitka.
Accelerated amortization will allow
construction costs to be charged off
against taxes in five years instead
of the normal 20 or 25 years and is
being granted by the government,
the dispatch said, to encourage con
struction aiding the mobilization
program.
T. A. Morgan, operator 01 uie mui,
told The Empire that plans call for
an entirely new power plant with
complete generating facilities for
electrification of the mill and gen
eral modernization and improve
ment of the present installation.
These will include a new head rig,
motors and facilities which will step
up present output of 60,000 board
feet per 8-hour shift to 75,000 board
feet.
About 50 men are employed. How
ever, Morgan said that the payroll
probably would not be increased as
the modernization plan is expected
to provide for the increased capacity
without hiring more men.
Other southeast Alaska timber
projects which are awaiting final ap
proval from the Defense Production
Administration are the enlargement
of the Juneau Lumber Company
mill, Installation of a plywood plant
in Juneau and the $40 million Ketch
ikan pulp mill.
B. Frank Heintzleman, regional
forester of the U. S. Forest Service,
who returned from Washington, D.
C. about a week ago, brought the
first word of these four projects
pending for approval. He has done
considerable work in promoting the
necessity for timber expansion and
production in Southeast Alaska and
it is expected the Defense Admin
istration’s decision on the other
three projects will be forthcoming
shortly.
FROM SEATTLE
S. A. Brown, 8eattle representa
tive of the Utah Woolen Mills, is
registered at^ Hotel Juneau.
Engebreth
Dies in South
Gunnard M. Engebreth. 42-year
old president of the Alaska Senate,
died Saturday in Seattle while un
dergoing an operation, according to
the Associated Press.
He left Anchorage June 25 for a
medical checkup after steadily los
ing weight.
Engebreth was serving his second
term as Senate president and was
the only man ever to hold the of
fice twice. He regarded himself as
a Liberal Republican.
He came to Alaska in 1936 as a
Public Works Administration offic
ial, taught in the Alaska Native
Service at Kaltag and later entered
business at Anchorage.
His widow, Violet, and their six
children were in Oceola, Wis., at the
time of his death. They went there
last Monday to visit Mrs. Enge
breth's father. Oscar Swanson.
Funeral services will be held in
Minneapolis, the Fisher-Kalfus Fu
neral home said today. The body will
be sent there.
Many former friends and relatives
live in the Wisconsin-Minnesota
area. He was born in Chicago.
Surviving children are Karen, 11;
Kristen, 9; Roger, 7; Evelyn, 5; Rob
ert, 3, and Nancy, 7 months. He also
is survived by his father, Levord
Engebretsen, Hawkins, Wis.; two
brothers, Ralph and Arthur Enge
breth, Anchorage, and three sisters,
Mrs. Hilda King, Seattle; Mrs.
James Smith, LaPorte, Ind., and
Mrs. Edward Cook, Minneapolis.
Serious Blow lo
Alaska: Gruening
(Following is a statement by Gov.
Ernest Gruening on the death of
the senate president.)
The sudden and unexpected death
of Gimnard Engebreth comes as a
staggering shock to his many
friends and admirers. His passing
■fet u otrierjrt ,■ to the Tt:ri'«!iry
of Alaska. Few Alaskans have in
recent years attained such rapid
eminence and distinction as a re
sult of their character, ability, pub
lic spirit and vision. The esteem
of his colleagues in the Legislature
was clearly demonstrated by Mr.
Engebreth’s election and re-elec
tion to the presidency of the Sen
ate—the only time this honor has
gone successively to one individual.
Gunnard Engebreth' was in every
respect the ideal type of citizen.
Beginning in Alaska as a school
teacher for the Office of Indian
Afiairs, he brough to his business
life and public career the devotion
that one properly associates with
the teaching profession. As a Leg
islator he took his duties seriously
and devoted himself in every way
to making government effective in
the service of the people. He was
kindly; he was thorough; he had
courage; and he had a selflessness
which is not too common either in
public or private life. It is a trag
edy that so promising a career was
cut short so early. To his wife and
to his young children the deepest
and most heartfelt sympathy of the
community will be extended.
Anchorage Cooks
Return to Skillets
With Wage Boost
ANCHORAGE, July 16, — UFl —
rhe threat of a strike was averted
Saturday when Hotel and Restaur
ant Workers Union members voted
unanimously to accept an offer
from the Anchorage Restaurant
Dwners Association.
The union supplied taxi cabs so
all its members could hurry back
to their jobs, reopening the rest
aurants which had been closed for
about two hours. Similarly the eat
ing houses had been closed for a
time yesterday while the workers
attended a meeting.
The agreement calls for an im
mediate wage boost of 10 per cent
for all hands, plus another 10 per
cent if the Wage Stabilization
Board will approve. The union had
demanded 30 per cent.
The new pay scale raised cooks
to $19.15 per day, waitresses and
fountain girls to $11.15, pantrymen
to $14.90, dishwashers to $13.40,
cashiers to $13.15, busboys to $12.15.
Ship Movements
Baranof due 7 a.m. from south.
Princess Norah scheduled to ar
rive tomorrow afternoon or evening.
Prince George scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Tuesday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Wednesday.
1
Fire During Flood
Firemen wtde hip-deep in flooding Kansas river water in the Armourdole district of Kansas City, Kans.,
in an effort to halt a filling station fire. The station caught fire rrnm unknown causes after industrial
and residential districts were inundated following failure of a levee. (Pi Wirephoto.
Truman Will Fly
Over Stricken Area
WASHINGTON, July 18, — 1^1 —
President Truman will fly over the
Missourl-Kansas flood area tomor
row.
The White House announced to
day that Mr. Truman will leave in
his plane, the Independence, about
11 a.m., (EST), tomorrow and will
return tomorrow night.
Mrs. Truman and their daughter
Margaret will accompany him and
will remain for a while in their
hometown of Independence, Mo.
The White House said the Pres
ident -ay ‘it. *tessuate to.**?
the whole picture,” undoubtedly
flying as far west over the flood
stricken area as Manhattan, Kas.
At a breakfast in the Mayflower
Hotel this morning, Mr. Truman
conferred with Missouri governor
Forest Smith and members of Mis
souri's Congressional delegation on
the flood situation.
The breakfast was planned some
time ago as a social gathering but
it turned into an emergency con
ference on the flood.
Mr. Truman asked Congress Sat
urday for a $15,000,000 emergency
flood relief appropriation.
Congressional action is expected
during today.
Leopold Gives Up
Throne to Son
BRUSSELS. Belgium. July 16 —
UPI— King Leopold III of Belgium
surrendered today the throne he
held for 17 unhappy years, and urg
ed his people to rally around his
elder son, who now become King
Baudouin I.
Leopold's solemn words of counsel
to his son, delivered before an as
semblage of 200 Belgian government
leaders, had overtones of sorrow.
After years of tragedy and bitter
ness, Leopold, now putting aside his
crown, begged the Belgians to sup
port his young son loyally and un
selfishly.
Baudouin, 20, takes the Royal Oath
tomorrow before Parliament.
Leopold signed the abdication
document in the ballroom of the
Brussels Royal Palace, in a cere
mony kept simple to the point of
austerity by the king’s own wish.
The small Belgian Communist
party tried to seize advantage of
the abdication, and continued with
its "Vive La Republique” meetings
in defiance of the government. The
Interior Ministry forbade such
meetings.
Leopold, now 49, was a minor
player in a world drama which was
beginning Just as he assumed the
throne. The Nazis had come to pow
er in Germany, and the way was
being paved for a war which was to
bloody Belgium’s soil for the second
time in a generation.
Leopold surrendered to the invad
ing Germans despite the opposition
of his government, and he was wide
ly assailed as pro-German. During
his long exile there was many a
move to dethrone him.
Garth B. Harlan of the U. S. dis
trict engineer office in Anchorage is
staying at the Baranof hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Johnson of
Ketchikan are stopping at the Bar
anof hotel. Johnson is with the New
England Fish Co.
i
Research Ship to
Plumb Xast Depths
Off Aleutian Chain
LA JOLLA, Calif., July 16, —W—
Another expedition into the vast
depths of the Pacific got underway
heer last week-end with departure
of the research vessel Horizon.
The ship, with the latest ocean
ographic equipment, will survey the
virually uncharted area of the
North Pacific between the Aleutian
Islands and the San Francisco
i Hawaii steamer lanes.
•it is being sent out by the Uni
versity of California’s Scripps In
stitution of Oceanography here, in
cooperation with the U. S. Navy
electronics laboratory, San Diego.
The office of Naval Research is
sponsoring the expedition.
Scripps’ scientists explained that
the horizon's new voyage will be
an extension of expeditions which
last year discovered and surveyed
the submerged Mid-Pacific Moun
tain range, west of Hawaii, and
the Mendocino escarpment—great
submarine cliff that extends for
hundreds of miles off the northern
California coast.
The new expedition will examine
the northern ridge of the escarp
ment, dredging bottom samples and
making soundings. It will then
turn north to the center'of the
Oulf of Alaska. j
Other samples will be dredged
from the tops of. :.t'« mo«rst£. 'OHtb
of the Alaskan peninsula.
After a call at Kodiak, the only
stopover, the Horizon will continue
the research southwestward along
the Aleutian trench to Unimak
Pass then turn southward to an
1,800-mile voyage to a point about
500 miles north\yest of Honolulu.
It will return to the California
coast along a suspected escarpment
facing the Mendocino escarpment.
Boy Scouts, Coast
Guard Rescue
Injured Scout
SEATTLE, July 16 — (/Pt — The
Coast Guard and a Boy Scout troop
Joined forces yesterday to rescue a
scoutT who was injured in a 30-foot
fall off a Cascade mountain cliff.
While Chief Pilot Charles E. Muel
ler hovered overhead in a Coast
Guard helicopter flown from Port
Angeles, the scouts, armed with
hatchets, hacked at underbrush in
the Snoqualmie Pass area to pro
vide clearance for a safe landing.
Then the ’copter landed and
picked up 14-year-old John Pear
son, the Seattle scout who had suf
fered brain concussion and a pos
sible skull fracture in the fall Sat
urday.
John was on a hiking trip with
11 other scouts at the time cf the
accident. Fellow scouts slipped his
unconscious body into a sleeping
bag and sent pessengers for help.
Hospital attendants at Seattle told
the boys’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.
J. Pearson, his life may have been
saved by the fact he was not moved
until the helicopter reached the
area.
Roy Sumpter of the Washington
Mortgage Co. of Seattle is at the
Baranof hotel.
WEATHER FORECAST
Temnerstnre for 24-Hour Period
ending 0 20 o’clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum.
78; minimum, 56
At Airport — Maximum,
78; minimum, 50.
FORECAST
Fair tonight. Incraesing
high cloudiness Tuesday.
Lowest tonight near 5 and
highest Tuesday about 75
degrees.
PRECIPITATION
(Pest 31 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todsr
City of Juneau — None;
Since July 1 — .04 inches.
At Airport — None;
Since July 1 — .04 inches.
Juneau's 4th Queen
Departs on Gift Trip
Joyce Hope, Juneau 4th of July
queen, left for Seattle by Pan
American Saturday — the trip her
award for her election as queen.
Bidding the queen on her way
Were Oren R. Cleveland, July 4th
chairman; Charles W. Carter, chosen
king of Juneau for the Fourth cele
bration; Mrs. Joseph M. Morgan,
coronation chairman and Lucille
Johnson, her assistant; Ray Hope,
Joyce’s father; Miss Mary Whitaker,
4th of July princess; Mrs. Whit
aker and Mrs. Kolia Albigoff, of
the Moose Auxiliary, co-sponsors
with the Filipino Society, of the
queen.
Awards for the queen included her
going-away ensemble, presented by
B. M. Behrends and her trip to the
Vanity Beauty Salon presented by
Mrs. Wayne Ritchey. Her gardenia
corsage was the gift of King Carter
and her set of luggage from her
father.
She will be entertained in Seat
tle and Portland before her return
home.
Pacific Northern
Selling Up
Portland Offices
SEATTLE, July 16 —<*l— Pacific
Northern Airlines announced two
appointments today,
Frederick M. Tyvoll was named
personnel director and Dan W.
Hutchins becomes district sales man
ager for the Portland, Ore., area.
Tyvoll formerly was field super
visor for the Employment Security
Commission of Alaska and served
with the War Manpower Commis
sion during World War XX at White
horse, Skagway, Cordova and the
Aleutian Islands. Hutchins, a native
of Spokane, previously was district
! traffic manager for Northwest Air
| lines in Spokane and Portland.
Pacific Northern is one of the
! largest independent air carriers in
Alaska, and recently was granted
routes to Seattle and Portland by
the Civil Aeronautics Board.
First Cease-Fire Progress
Reported; Reds
In 'Amiable' Mood
Kansas City
Reels as Flood
Surges East
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. July 18—IjTI—
The nation's costliest flood passed
Its destructive peak In the Kansas
City area today and surged on east
ward In Missouri.
But this metropolitan area of
900,0000 persons and Eastern and
Central Kansas still reeled from the
Impact of high waters.
The twin furies of fire and flood
lashed at Kansas City, Mo., and
Kansas City, Kas., for the fifth con
secutive day.
Four industrial districts were un
der water. Transportation was
crippled. The water supply was
curtailed. A seven- block fire burned
fiercely and destructively — just as
it has since last Friday.
In Eastern and Central Kansas,
the swollen Kansas river and Its
tributaries receded generally, per
mitting some of the thousands of
homeless to return to muck-caked
areas.
More than 7.000 persons In both
states were driven from their homes.
Crest Rolls On
many ui vnc iuwu.> sink iHCfieu
power and water facilities.
Eastward in Missouri, the Missouri
river crest rolled towards the cen
tral part of the state.
Its destructive power was still
there, but there were no great in
dustrial cities in its path.
The towns along the river are stil'
digging out of a flood that hit
f&Mfcrr this . mouth. The Missouri
runs 200 miles across the state from
Kansas City on the west to St.
Charles on the east. There It emp
tes into the Mississippi.
All vehicular bridges between
Kansas City and St. Charles are
closed because of high water.
17 Deaths
Seventeen deaths have been caus
ed by the gigantic flood.
Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief of the
Army Engineers, said last night it
appeared the cost will run consider
ably over the $500,000,000 he esti
mated on his arrival from Wash
ington last weekend.
President Truman, who requested
Pick to make a personal survey,
designated flooded parts of both
states as disaster areas.
Train and highway transportation
in both states is drastically cur
tailed. The National Guard, the Red
Cross. Army, Air Force, Navy and
Coast Guard have thrown men and
money into the fight against high
waters.
Aid has poured in from coast to
coast and from Canada.
In this metropolitan area, muddy
waters still swirled over thousand.*
of acres of lndusti ial districts.
Waters, ranging from a few feet tc
20 feet deep, stretched over rail
road yards, livestock industries,
grain elevators, oil refineries, and
manufacturing plants.
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WINNING OUT
KANSAS CITY, July 16 -—0P1—
The twin cities of Kansas City, Mo.,
and Kansas City, Kas., apparently
were winning their fight today tc
contain the disastrous flood that
has inundated four Industrial dis
tricts, but a raging fire that started
72 hours ago still burned unchecked
Although the crest of the flood
had passed and was well down the
Missouri river, water stood as much
as 15 feet deep in the major flooded
areas with the prospect relief would
come slowly.
As Kansas City operated on a
state of emergency following the na
tion's costliest flood these rapid fire
development highlighted the picture:
1. Missouri's governor and lieu
tenant governor got Into a row oyer
whether the National Guard should
be called out to aid the stricken
city.
2. The House at Washington
raised from $15,000,000 to $25,000,000.
The funds provided in a relief bill
to aid the stricken areas in Mis
souri and Kansas and passed it
quickly.
3. President Truman decided to
fly west tomorrow to make a per
sonal survey. He probably will fly
as far west as Manhattan, Kas.
4. Kansas City business operated
on sharply restricted hours. Three
40or.iinued on Page Six)
By Associated Press
MUN8AN, Korea, July 16 —MV
UN negotiators reported they made
“some progress” today In Korean
war cease-fire talks held In a friend
ly atmosphere with Communist dele
gates.
It was the first formal announce
ment of progress.
Negotiators are still working on
the agenda. It may be "24 hours or
24 days" before the agenda is com
pleted and actual negotiations on
armistice terms get underway, a
spokesman said.
Two 55-mlnute sessions were held
Monday In neutralized Kaesong. The
next meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m.
Tuesday (5 p.m. today, Juneau time).
No Armed Reds
There wasn’t an armed Commun
ist visible within half a mile of the
house where talks were held.
"It is much better now that we
are not surrounded by guards," said
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief UN
delegate.
“The Communists have fulfilled
their agreement with respect to the
neutrality of the conference site,”
a UN communique said. “In that no
armed personnel was observed."
Armed Red military police were In
the war-battered city. They were
there by agreement reached Sunday.
Some smiled at the second group of
20 UN newsmen to go Into the city.
Others scowled.
The negotiations themselves were
conducted In a formal atmosphere
across a green-topped table in a
secluded conference room.
More Frinedly
"But It was not a formality that
would prevent an agreement," said
Lt. Col. Howard S. Levie of New
York, a UN staff officer who was
present.
"Everyone was more friendly to
day than ever before.”
The two Chinese generals on the
five-man lied MclMN especially
seemed to be in food spirits at the
afternoon session.
'“The Chinese smiled when they
came back into the conference
room.” Levie said. '"They nodded to
General Cralgie.” (MaJ. Gen. L. C.
Craigie is one of the five UN dele
gates).
“Maybe,” the spokesman sug
gested, “the Communists have learn
ed we are not the man caters they
were led to believe from their propa
gandists.”
Newsmen on the spot said both
sides appeared to be in harmony
at the end of Monday’s session.
Tuesday's meeting was scheduled
for 11 a.m. — one hour later than
usual — at the request of the Com
munists. No reason was given for
the change in time.
Joy took the entire 55 minute
Monday morning session to present
further arguments in favor of the
agenda proposed by the Allied dele
gation.
They took a two-hour recess at
the Red's request.
Then in the afternoon, cigaret
smoking Oen. Nam II, head of the
Red delegation, used another 55
minutes to present his views.
Agenda Only
They talked only about agenda
items. An Allied announcement said:
“The UN command delegation re
ports that some progress was made
to the formation of a mutually
igreed-upon agenda.”
A press dispatch from the truce
city said the five North Korean and
Chinese generals were scowling as
they left the morning meeting.
But when the afternoon talks
ended they seemed amiable. The
five Red generals smiled and posed
for UN photographers.
Reds Massing Men
For Attack
U. S. 8TH ARMY HEADQUART
ERS, Korea, July 16 —lAV- Allied
officers said today the Reds are
prepared to launch a massive at
tach if cease-fire negotiations break
down.
A pooled dispatch from the ad
vance base at Munsan quoted the
unidentified officers are saying the
Reds could throw 72 divisions at the
Allies. A Red division is usually fig
ured at 9,000 to 10,000 men.
They said the Reds could sustain
such an attack five to seven days.
Eighth Army plans in case the
cease-fire talks fall are of course
secret.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee E’.'.is of the Fish
and Wildlife Service from Wrangell
are stopping at Hotel Juneau.