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JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
UN FORCES TIGHTENING GRIP ON SEOUL
PROFITS TAX
NEXT MOVE
FOR HOUSE
Bill Signed Yesterday Will
Nick Individuals 10 to
20 Per Cent More
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — (>P» —
Even before the ink was dry on a
tax boost estimated to bring in
$4,700,000,000 a year, the House Ways
and Means Committee today began
to chart procedures for a second
measure. It will include a multi
billion dollar excess profits tax.
By overwhelming votes, Congress
yesterday passed and sent to Presi
dent Truman the first bill that calls
on almost every American to help
pay for the rearmament program.
President Truman has told friends
he is pleased with the bill, and he
is expected to sign it quickly.
It means that just a week from
tomorrow the government will begin
taking one-fifth more taxes, after
personal exemptions, out of all work
ing people’s pay. The more than 50,
000,000 individual taxpayers will con
tribute almost $3,000,000,000 addi
tional a year, beginning Oct. 1.
Taxes on individuals are Increased
12 to 20 percent.
Corporations will pay an esti
mated $1,500,000,000 a year more.
Their top tax on income is boosted
from 38 percent to 45 percent. The
higher rates are retroactive to one
half of 1950 income.
50 MEMBERS OF
MOOSE IN PALMER
FOR CONVENTION
PALMER, Alaska, Sept. 23——
Fifty members of the Moose ’Asso
ciation were on deck for their
Alaska convention opening Thurs
day.
* Their banquet entree? — Moose
meat.
Delegates from Anchorage and
Petersburg were still due. The con
vention runs through Sunday.
Ralph Moore of Palmer is the
Association President. He named the
following committee chairmen:
rules, Harry Campbell, Palmer; by
laws, Vern McGraw, Sitka; press,
Winfred E. Hinkle, Ketchikan; fi
nance, Carl Asplund, Fairbanks;
resolutions, Leonard Evans, Juneau;
nomination, Carl Stettler, Cordova.
Carl A. Weis of the Supreme
Lodge at Mooseheart. 111., is the
principal convention guest.
VIRGINIA MacLEAN 10
BE GUEST SPEAKER AT
BPWC MEET MONDAY
The program meeting of the Ju
neau Business and Professional Wo
men’s Club presented by Interna
tional Relations Committee will
be held Monday noon September
25 on the terrace of the Baranof
Hotel. Miss Virginia MacLean, who
has done graduate work at the
Fletcher School of Law and Dip
lomacy in Medford, Mass., will
speak on current trends and de
velopments in the United Nations.
Guests are invited to attend this
meeting. Reservations may be made
not later than 10:00 a.m„ Monday
by •calling Mrs. Betty McCormick
at 547. _
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
I Copyright. IMO. by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
(Ed. Note—The brass ring, good
for one free ride on the Washing
ington Merry-Go-Round, today
goes to Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Chair
man of the UN Security Council.)
fYASHINGTON—After a month
of watching sour-puss Soviet Dele
gate Malik rant, rave and stymie
the UN Security Council, the Ameri
can television-viewing public is get
ting a great kick out of a gentle
man who is exactly the opposite—
Sir Gladwyn Jebb, chief of the
British UN delegation and now
chairman of the Security Council.
Sir Gladwyn’s firmness in putting
Malik in his place, his precise, mast
tContinued on Page Four)
Long March
Eastphoto, a New York picture agency which distributed this photograph, says it came from the China
Photo Service of Peiping, China, with the caption describing it as showing “a group of American pris
oners of war in Korea ... on their way to a POW camp in Pyongyang.’ Pyongyang is the capital of
North Korea. (PI Wirephoto.
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Juveniles
Charged
Vagrancy
Police Chief Warns Young
sters to Stay Off
Streets af Night
Wandering around Juneau streets
at late night hours, after police
warnings to go home, brought ten
day suspended jail sentences to three
Juneau juvenile boys in City Magis
trate’s court this morning. The
charge was vagrancy. The lads
pleaded guilty and admitted that
they had no business on the streets
at 3 o’clock in the morning.
They had been warned by police
officers on previous occasions and
had been talked to in a friendly
manner.
City Magistrate Fred Eastaugh ex
plained the ordinance and told them
the reason for prohibiting people
from wandering around on the
streets at late hours without any
reason for it.
"Those are the people who get
into trouble,” he said. He also
pointed out that the suspended
sentence would hold for one year
and if they were picked up again,
it would be more serious for them.
All of the boys admitted that they
had homes. Two of them had quit
school at the 6th and 8th grades,
and one had stopped going to school
during his second year of high
school. None of them had been
working but said they'd been fish
ing and expected to go out for the
fall fishing soon.
Police Chief Bernard Hulk today
issued a warning to all Juneau
youngsters to stay off the streets
at night, saying that they would be
picked up for violation of the curfew
if they had no business on the
streets.
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3 COMMISSIONERS
SWORN IN FOR
SCHOOL SITE WORK
Appointed by Judge George W.
Folta to determine the price of
property to be condemned for a new
school site, three prominent Juneau
citizens appeared in District Court
this morning. The property is at
Twelfth Street and Glacier High
way.
Curtis Shattuck, B. D. Stewart
and Don Abel were qualified and
instructed by Judge Folta.
This short official procedure
closed the week's session of District
Court, which included motion day
yesterday.
Judge Folta and other members of
the court party will go to Ketchikan
aboard the Alaska for the term
scheduled to convene Tuesday
morning.
r. F. Owens of H"nv is re
gistered at the Baranof Hotel.
11-FOOT GRIZZLY IS
BAGGED BY SEATTLE
HUNTER IN CANADA
SEATTLE, Sept. 23 — W — The
skin of what may be the largest
grizzly bear ever killed will decor
ate the home of Lloyd Walker,
Seattle hunter, who brought down
the huge beast recently in British
Columbia.
The bear when skinned measured
11 feet from ncse to tail and 10
feet from one front paw to the ]
other. His footpads were exactly1
12 inches long.
“The skull measured 17 inches
from nose to back," Walker said.
“Records are determined by skull
dimensions, and the record book
shows the largest grizzly killed,
previously had a skull measuring
16 ‘i inches.
The skull will be sent to R. C.
Reeve of Anchorage, Alaska, for
official confirmation. Reeve is
head of an American Museum of
Natural History Commission check
ing on game records, Dr. Leavitt
said.
The bear weighed about 1,000
pounds, Walker said.
BLOOD TYPE PLAN
TO START TUESDAY
NIGHT IN SCHOOL
Definite plans for the blood typ
ing program which will begin Tues
day evening were formulated yes
terday in the Red Cross office, ac
cording to the blood typing com
mittee, Mrs. J. H. Clements, Mrs.
B. D. Stewart and Mrs. M. O. John
son.
The place for the service will be
the study hall on the second floor
of the high school building The
hours are from 7:30 to 9:30 Tues
day and Thursday evenings each i
week.
Drs. J. H. Clements and W. M. |
Whitehead will be on duty Tuesday
night. Assisting them as reception
ists will be Mrs. B. D. Stewart and
Mrs. V. Tylacka. Typists for the
first evening will be Miss Ruth
Brooks and Mrs. E. L. Mallory. I
The response to the call for vol
unteer workers has been very good,
according to Mrs. K. S. Clem, Red
Cross Executive Secretary.
MISS PROUTY ON VISIT
TO PARENTS HERE BEFORE
RETURNING TO ARMY DUTY
! Miss Nina Prouty arrived in Ju
neau this week to visit with her
parents the Rev. and Mrs. Paul
Prouty and Juneau friends. She
came from El Paso, Texas, where
she has been on a hospital staff.
Miss Prouty is a captain in the
U. S'. Army Nurses’ Reserve and
expects to be called to duty in
about two months. She saw service
overseas in World War II in the
European Theatre.
EDGECUMBE DOCTORS HERE
Doctors P. H. Shuler and J. L.
Coddington from Mt. Edgecumbe are
■ staying at the Baranof Hotel.
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"REVOLVING
S. 0. B " TERM
FOR PEARSON
Republican Senator Jen*
ner Verbally Attacks
Columnist-Come Back
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23—UP—
Senator Jenner (R-Ind) called j
Columnist Drew Pearspn a “re- j
volvtng S.O.B.” today because of an
attack which he said Pearson's
column will make on him tomorrow.
Addressing the Senate, Jenner
quoted the column as saying he i
was "put in the Senate” by “the
former treasurer of the Ku Klux
Klan in Indiana, Bob Lyons.”
When Pearson heard about Jen- j
ner’s remarks he said the Senator |
apparently could dish out criticism ,
but couldn't take it.
Jenner said Pearson made the at
tack because of the Senator’s crit
icism of Defense Secretary George
Marshall.
“This Drew Pearson,” Jenner said,
“is a self-appointed, self-made,
cross T’d, dotted I’d, double-docu- j
mented super-superlative, revolving
S.O.B.”
Jenner said he considered the
attack "a real achievement" since
criticisms by Pearson “have gen
erally been reserved for Presidents
of the United States.”
"Think of it,” the Senator added,
“two American Presidents were
unable to find any other words to
describe this propaganda-peddling
prostitute than by calling him a
S.O.B.”
In a statement to reporters Pear
son later said:
"After launching one of the most
unfair attacks at General Marshall
ever aimed at a public figure, call
ing him ‘a living lie' and ‘a front
man for traitors,’ Jenner now rants,
raves ,and winces when his own op
erations are exposed. A hit dog al
ways howls.”
WEATHER REPORT •
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
In Juneau—Maximum, 56; •
minimum, 49. • j
At Airport—Maximum, 56; • I
minimum, 49. •
FORECAST •
(Juneau and Viclnltr) * i
Mostly cloudy with rain •
showers and southeasterly *
winds as high as 20 miles per • |
hour slowly decreasing to- •
night and Sunday. Lowest •
temperature tonight about 47 •
and highest Sunday near 54. • j
PRECIPITATION • I
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m todm • !
City of Juneau—0.74 inche- •
since Sept. 1 — 9.49 inche: • I
since July 1—20.55 inches. •
At Airport — None; • ’
since Sept. 1 — 6.53 inches; •
since July I—18.53 inches. • I
$17 BILLION
FOR DEFENSE
APPROVED
Vacation-bound Congress
Passes Bill in Form Fa
vored by President
WASHINGTON. Sept. 23—i/W—A
$17,000,000,000 emergency money bill
to help meet costs of rearming this
nation and its friends was on Presi
dent Truman’s desk today in prac
tically the same form he had fa
vored. It was <5ne of the last enact
ments of the vacation-bound Con
gress.
Stripped of a tight ban on eco
nomic aid to foreign countries trad
ing in military goods with the So
viet bloc, it boosts to approximately
$60,000,000,000 the cash and contract
authority voted since the first of the
year.
And it raises to more than $100,
000.000,000 the cash and contract
authority, including national debt
interest payments and other fixed
costs running to about $8,000,000,000
a year, voted since the 81st Congress
convened in January, 1949.
The emergency defense bill was
cleared yesterday after a brief but
hot Senate fight over an amend
ment that would have denied U.S.
economic help to any nation whose
trade with Russia or her satellites
includes arms, armaments or any
article that could be used for mili
tary purposes.
Mr. Truman personally had at
tacked the amendment as one
which A»e said would hurt free
Europe more than it would Russia.
The House refused to aprove the
amendment and toned it down to
give discretion in the matter to the
National Security Council, headed
by Mr. Truman.
MAH LOST IN KLAHINA
RIVER CANYON 2 DAYS;
HAINES ROAD BLOCKED
A teelphone call late yesterday
afternoon had bad news from Haines
for Frank A. Metcalf. Highway En
gineer and Chief of the Highway
Patrol.
A big slide yesterday afternoon
blocked the Haines Highway at 45
Mile, which is Just across the Ca
nadian border.
Work started immediately to clear
the road, which authorities hope to
have opened for traffic by the mid
dle of the week.
The other news was about a lost
man.
“The whole town has turned out
to look for Archie Dunbar," Met
calf was informed.
Dunbar, a construction worker for
Lytle and Green, had recently come
from Oregon. He was believed to
have gone hunting alone in the
treacherous area of the Klahina
River Canyon. Searchers had pin
pointed his whereabouts to a small
locality there. Several shots had
been heard since the search began
two days ago.
A request was made today for ob
servation by Alaska Coastal Air
lines, but the weather was too thick
for visibility in the area.
Among the search parties are two
headed by Patrolman A1 Lubcke,
whose station is Haines, and Sgt.
John Monagle of Juneau.
LYDIA FOHN-HANSEN HERE
Mrs. Lydia Fohn-Hansen, Home
Demonstration Leader fi’om the
University of Alaska; Mary Rob
inson, Extension worker from Pet
ersburg, are here for the 4-H Club
fair. Mrs. Fohn-Hansen will leave
for Ketchikan Tuesday and Miss
Robinson will return to Peters
burg Sunday. They are guests at
the Juneau Hotel.
ROD PEGCES TO SCHOOL
Rodger Pegues left today via Pan
American clipper for Seattle where
he will enroll for his freshman
year at the University of Washing
ton. Rod is a graduate of Juneau
High School, Class of '50.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof from Seattle scheduled
to arrive Tuesday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver, September 27.
Alaska from west scheduled south
bound 5 p.m. Monday.
New Secretary of Defense
Sober faced, Gen. George C. Marshall, World War II Army Chief of
Staff, takes his position at the desk of the Secretary of Defense in
the Petagon soon after taking the oath of office at a private cere
mony. Ill Wirephoto.
JET PLANE
COMPLETES
OCEAN HOP
LIMESTONE AIRFORCE BASE,
Me., Sept. 23—UFi—An oil spattered
Thunder Jet fighter plane here is
proof the "Flame Throwers” can
hop the Atlantic in one swoop—if
they’re refueled in flight.
This one did yesterday, complet
ing the world’s first nonstop, inter
continental flight by a jet aircraft.
A companion plane came to grief
over Labrador, but its pilot para
chuted safely.
Col. David C. Schilling flew his
single engine F-84 fighter 3,300
miles from Manston, England, to
Limestone in ten hours and one
minute.
Headwinds kept the Fort Leaven
worth. Kans., World War Two ace
from endangering the 1949 record
i set by a Pan American Airways
Stratocruiser that flew 3,565 miles
in nine hours, 16 minutes on a 110
mile tail wind.
Schilling landed tired but happy
at this northern Maine bomber base.
He said “everything went per
fectly’ ’on his flight.
Air Force officials in Washington
said his flying mate, Lt. Col. William
D. Ritchie of Pine Bluff, Ark., had
trouble refueling from a tanker
plane over Goosebay, Lab., and ap
parently didn’t get enough fuel to
carry his ship through.
A rescue helicopter from Goost
Bay picked up Ritchie unhurt.
Both veteran pilots were on a mis
sion to give jet refueling techniques
an acid test.
Air refueling already is standard
practice for bombers.
SWEDISH PLANE
CRASH KILLS 10
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 23
—Atfi—Airport officials said a Swe
dish commercial plane crashed and
burst into flames today at the Karl
stad Airport, killing all 10 persons
aboard.
The plane, stalled and crashed
from an altitude of less than 200
feet above the field shortly after
takeoff. It carried nine passengers
and a pilot, all Swedes.
The plane delivered Stockholm
newspapers to western Sweden.
ANCHORAGE VISITOR
Kathleen H. Klindt of Anchorage
is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM MICHIGAN
Mr .and Mrs. Albin Tunia of Dear
born, Mich., are guests at the Gas
tineau Hotel.
NOME VISITOR
Robert A. Oillis of Nome Is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
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Anti-Commie
Bill Causes
Filibuster
Die - Hard Senate Squad
Opposes Vetoed Meas
ure More than 24 Hrs.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23—tPI—A
die-hard squad of Senators fought
doggedly on, hour after hour, today
against the Communist control bill
denounced by President Truman.
Their avowed hope was that word
from the people will change the
minds of colleagues bent on over
riding the Truman veto.
The Senate talk carried over from
a night-long session into the bright
morning hours.
The tense all-night session was
dramatized by the collapse of Sena
tor Langer (R-ND) after he had
held the floor more than five hours.
Langer. after struggling to keep
his feet, sagged to the floor and
was carried out of the chamber on
a stretcher. He was taken to Be
thesda Naval hospital.
"Just plain exhaustion,” his doc
tor said, adding that the Senator
appeared to be in no danger.
At another point, Senator Douglas
(D-Ill) sobbed aloud while arguing
against the bill.
It was learned that several Sena
tors opposing the bill called the
White House this morning seeking
Presidential guidance. They were
told to use ' their own judgment—
that it was up to them.
Lehman, in one of the time
consuming speeches by opponents
of the measure, offered a vote at
3 p.m., EST.
Lehman said what his group
wanted was a reasonable opportun
ity for Senators to study the veto
message from the White House. He
spoke of a vote at “a reasonable
time this afternoon."
Lehman said what his
Humphrey, getting ready to take
over the talking chores later in the
I morning, told newsmen:
"People will have had time to
read their papers and listen to the
radio, and maybe some Senators
will have heard from them.”
The Minnesotan, however, con
ceded that he had no real hope of
upholding the veto. He figured no
more than 15 Senators would sup
port Mr. Truman.
The marathon session ground on
past the 24-hour mark at 10 a m.,
EST, with Senator Kefauver <D
Tenn) on the floor.
ANCHORAGE VISITOR
David B. Duncan of Anchorage is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM TENAKEE SPRINGS
W. D. Trim of Tenakee Springs is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
MARINES
CONTINUE
DRIVING
Reds Are Forcing Own Cap
lured Deserters to Work
on Military Defenses
(By the Associated Press)
United Nations forces increased
their pressure on Seoul from two
directions today, while Communists
seeking to hold the South Korean
capital brought up reinforcements
from the southern beachhead. Mos
cow dispatches said the defenders
of Seoul were In a bad way.
The Red reinforcements Joined
three North Korean regiments and
a "rehabilitation battalion,” the
latter composed of troops who had
been imprisoned for desertion and
other military offenses. This bat
talion is expected to be sacrificed
recklessly.
Marine columns were driving on
the capital of 1,000,000 inhabitants
from the north and southwest as
Allied forces on the southeastern
front made their greatest gains of
the war.
U. 8. Infantrymen, driving south
from the city and north toward it
from the old Pusan corner of the
peninsula, fought within 85 air miles
of each other.
A U.S. Intelligence ofricer said
elements of the Korean Communist
Ninth Division, which previously
had fought the U.8. 25th Division on
the southern sector near Haman,
reached Seoul Friday.
Thufttfl. northward
before tire tank-led U.S. Seventh
Division troops seised Suwon and
its airfield, 20 miles south of Seoul,
Friday evening.
The northern prong of the drive
on Seoul, including South Korean
Marines, was in the capital’s out
skirts within two miles of the heart
of the city. Associated Press Corre
spondent Reiman Morin reported.
The southwest arm took the bat
tered suburb of Yongdungpo, on the
south banks of the Han river, and
pushed on.
Red disorders within Seoul were
reported increasing. Refugees said
people were refusing to work or
fight for the Communists and as a
result scores were being shot.
Thousands of Communists in the
southeast sector were facing a trap
by the swiftly advancing Allied
troops, 5,000 already having been
cut off. Low-flying planes harassed
them in good weather.
But some of the planes made the
tragic mistake of attacking friendly
troops. Associated Press Photogra
pher Gene Herrick reported Ameri
can planes Inadvertently strafed and
fire bombed elements of the British
27th Brigade.
Gen. MacArthur’s summary, cov
ering operations up to Friday mid
night, said United Nations forces
on all fronts inflictwi 5,920 Red
casualties and captured 685.
A Pravda correspondent in Korea
reported to Moscow that the "situ
ation is very serious in Seoul." He
said brigades of workers are using
cement, street car rails, stones and
beams to build barricades in the
threatened city. He said pillboxes
and tank points dot Seoul.
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SECY. OF INTERIOR
APPOINTS FELKNER
FOR EKLUTNA JOB
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — (A1* —
Secretary of the Interior Chapman
appointed Byron G. Felkner con
struction engineer for the Eklutna
hyldroelectric power project in
Alaska yesterday.
Congress has appropriated $1,
100,000 to start construction of the
$20,365,400 plant.
Reclamation Commissioner Mic
hael W. Straus said in a news re
lease that preliminary work is being
speeded so that construction may
start next spring.
Felkner has been field engineer
at Boysen Dam in Wyoming. He
also has worked for the Reclama
tion Bureau on the Rio Grande,
Texas, Altus. Okla., and Parker,
Ariz., Calif., projects.
FROM PORTLAND
J. L. Castle of Sharp and Dolme,
Inc., Portland, Ore., is registered at
the Baranof Hotel.