THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,551
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY. JULY 11, 1950
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Communists Ripping Gap in American Lines
NATS WIN
ALL-STAR
BY 4 TO 3
Game Goes Into 14th In
ning-First Extra Game
in History of Contest
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CHICAGO, July 11—UP)—Red
Schoendienst's home run gave
the National League a 4 to 3
triumph over the Americans in
the 14th inning of the first extra
inning All-Star game in history.
A crowd of 46,127 paid a record
$126,178 at the gate.
Detroit's Ted Gray, who yielded
Schoendienst’s homer, was los
ing pitcher. Winner was Cincin
nati’s Ewell Blackwell, but the
pitching hero for the Nationals
was Larry Jansen of the New
York Giants.
Last year’s winner—American
League, 12 victories, National
League 5 wins.
Betting odds—American League ,
9-5 favorite.
CHICAGO, July 11—Wl—Ralph
Kiner’s ninth inning homer tied the
All-Star game at 3-3 and sent the
major league classic into the first i
overtime in its 17-game history to
day.
The score was still tied 3-3 going
into the 12th inning.
Kiner, star slugger of the Pitts
burgh Pirates, delivered his four
base blow on Art Houtteman’s first
pitch of the ninth to erase a 3-2
American League lead.
Kiner’s wallop, his second hit and
second homer in three All-Star
games, soared into the upper stands
of the left field bleachers and sent
a Comiskey Park crowd of 46,127
into an uproar.
Larry Jansen of the New’ York
Giants, fourth National loop
pitcher, took up in blazing fashion,
striking out six of the nine Ameri
can batters to face him in the sev
enth, eighth and ninth innings.
After spotting the Nationals a 2-0
lead in the second inning, the
Americans tallied one in th% third,
off starter Robin Roberts, of Phila
delphia, and two in the filth off
Brooklyn’s Don Newcombe.
The American pair in the fifth
came as No. 2 pitcher Bob Lemon
of Cleveland walked, Larry Doby of
Cleveland got a scratch double over
second base, and Ted Williams of
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Bv DREW PEARSON
tOopyrtibt, 1**>. to *«U Syndicate. Inc.i
HAshINGTON—Only a few in
siders realized it but, at his last
press conference, President Truman
blithely tossed out the window a
carefully nurtured plan for halting
a nation-wide rail strike.
Behind the scenes, Utah’s schol
arly Elbert Thomas, Senate labor
committee chairman, together with
Wayne Morse, who settled the 1941
nation-wide rail strike' just before
Pearl Harbor, had pleaded with
Mr. Truman to follow a path they
had smoothed out—namely, an ap
peal to the patriotism of the
switchmen to go back to work.
Instead, the President went along
with the suggestion of Harry Dar
by, the freshman Republican sen
ator from Kansas. Unsmiling, he
curtly announced that the striking
switchmen should get back on the
job, or the government would take
drastic action.
Senators Thomas and Morse, one
a Democrat, the other a Repub
lican, had urged Mr. Truman to
handle the switchmen’s strike and
the threatened trainmen and con
ductors’ strike set for July 15 all
as one problem.
“The brotherhoods don’t want to
strike,” Senator Thomas told the
President. ‘The railroads have the
union in exactly the same position
the mine operators had John Lewis
the last time. An appeal from you
would keep the trains moving.”
Senator Morse, in a separate
talk with Truman, said virtually
the same thing. Both senators
had received private assurances
from Brotherhood representatives
in advance that such an appeal
would do the trick, and there
would be no strike. What they
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2 KILLED IN
SHOOTING,
KETCHIKAN
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 11—(M
—A man and woman were killed
and another man was wounded
critically in a shooting episode here
early today.
Dead were Mrs. Fritz Schloe, 26,
a waitress, and Harvey G. Boyd,
30. The woman’s husband, about 33,
was near death in a hospital.
The U.S. Marshal’s office reported
the Schloe’s daughter, Diane, 8,
heard a quarrel followed by shoot
ing.
Schloe is a fisherman. Boyd was
an Army enlisted man.
AP MAN TELLS
FINDING OF 2
SLAIN YANKS
By WILLIAM R. MOORE
NEAR THE FRONT IN KOREA.
July 11—(/ft—I saw two dead
American soldiers Monday. Their
hands were tied behind them. They
had been shot through the head.
The two soldiers lay just off a
main road which carried the vital,
frantic traffic supplying front line
fighters. They had been there since
Monday morning, I was told later
by Infantry officers at rear com
mand posts.
These officers said three Ameri
cans had been tied and shot in the
head but I saw only the two bodies.
(Yesterday, Lt. D. C. Gates, Join
erville, Tex., reported seven Ameri
can soldiers, their hands tied be
hind. had been shot to death by
North Koreans. There was no indi
catiorf whether the three reported
today were some of those, or addi
tional atrocities).
I found no one who witnessed j
these slayings. Based on what was
known of the fighting at this point
early Monday, the belief was held
generally that the soldiers, riding
in a jeep in the morning mist, sud
denly found themselves only 20
yards or so from a North Korean
tank. With the tank guns raised
upon them, they jumped out and
surrendered.
Their bodies showed what hap
pened afterward.
One of the green clad corpses lay
iace downward, the other on its side.
Cloth bands about three inches
wide, like the bandages each Ameri
can soldier carries in his first aid
kit, were tied so tightly around the
wrists of each that the hands
showed purplish brown, the arms
above the thongs much lighter.
PRICES ON MEAT
RAISE 1-4 CENTS
EASTERN MARKETS
(By Associated Press)
In New York and Chicago stores,
meat prices went up one to four
cents a pound. Sirloin steak was
selling at 97 cents a pound at one
chain in New York. And this chain
says prices might go up in Phila
delphia later this week.
An industry spokesman in Chi
cago says, “the consumer is paying
these prices willingly.”
Pork went up six cents a pound
in Dallas, two cents a pound in Los
Angeles.
Hogs at the Buffalo stockyards
rose to the highest point in two
years ... at Chicago, to the highest
point since November, 1948.
In Salt Lake City, beef prices
went up one to two cents a pound
wholesale.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, July 11 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
94%, Anaconda 30%, Curtiss
Wright 9Vi, International Harvester
26%, Kennecott 56%, New York
Central 12%, Northern Pacific 15%,
U.S. Steel 33%, Pound $2.80%.
Sales today were 3,250,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 204.65, rails 53.71, utilities
38.69.
Draft Set - Up
Rolling lo Gel
20,000 Men
Shipping Problem Being
Met-Alaska Trooper Re
shuffled fo Korean Area
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WASHINGTON, July 11 — MPl —
Draft machinery to produce the 20.
OOO recruits asked for by the Army
was in motion today, while mill- !
tary leaders sought ships to carry
already trained troops to back the i
defense of Southern Korea against J
invading Communists.
The Army said it is studying the
possibility of opening induction
centers to handle the draftees as1
well as the flow of volunteers yes- j
terday’s call-up is expected to pro- .
duce.
Army officials explained, however,
that induction centers may not be
necessary, unless the enlistment
volume increases considerably.
The Army now has four training ,
centers strategically located to tap
the country’s principal population
centers. They are the Fourth In
fantry Division at Fort Ord, Calif.;
the Ninth Infantry at Fort Dix, N.J..
the Tenth Infantry at Fort Riley.
Kans., and the Third Armored Di
vision at Fort Knox, Ky.
Army officials said that an im- j
mediate decision about setting up
induction centers could be delayed ;
as Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, '
director of selective service, said it
would take about 60 days for his
reactivated organization to provide j
recruits the Army could start turn- j
ing into soldiers.
Wants Them Now i
The call for 20,000 men — the i
Army said it wanted them “at the
earliest possible date”—would in- j
dicate that few would be inducted
in any one community on the first j
go-around. For example, a draft |
official in the District of Columbia
figured it would mean about 100 i
from the City of Washington.
Gen. Hershey said that if the
draft call goes as high as 300.000 !
men he believes the men can be
provided from among those regis
trants who are 22 years of age or 1
older.
To meet the overseas shipping |
problem, the military establishment
has tackled the first phase by re- j
shuffling assignments of about 100 i
vessels in the Military Sea Trans- j
port Service.
This action has already produced j
the transports needed to carry the ;
First Marine Division from Cali- i
fornia to Korea. The attack trans- '
port Henrico was diverted from the ;
annual t summer supply voyage to
Alaska. 1
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WASHINGTON AFL j
PLEDGES SUPPORT
TO ALASKA UNION
TACOMA, Wash., July 11—M—
The Washington State Federation
of Labor, composed of AFL unions, j
pledged "moral, financial and phys
ical support” today to the AFL
Maritime Trades Council in Alaska
activities.
The federation, in convention
here, took the action after being
told that the International Long
shoremen’s and Warehousemen's
Union (CIOi was conducting a vig
orous organizing campaign in Al
aska in competition with AFL
unions.
SELECTIVE SERVICE
BOARDS TO SPEED UP
WASHINGTON, July 11 — —
Selective Service today asked draft
boards throughout the nation to
meet their quotas for a 20,000-man
draft “as soon as possible and not
later than Sept. 30.”
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, di
rector, sent those instructions to 54
state and territorial directors who!
supervise the work of the local draft
boards.
SEEING ALASKA
Eleanor Powell of Adrian, Mich.,
and Irene Brinkman of Clarksville,
Iowa, are on an Alaska tour, step
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
KETCHIKAN
CANNERIES
PICKETED
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 11—UP!
—Members of the CIO-affiliated
seiners union picketed salmon can
neries here today in a price dis
pute after rejecting an employer
offer.
The canneries offered 371 i cents
each for pink salmon, the same
price as last year. Employers re
ported the union was asking 55
cents.
Beach and barge crews continued
working. The fishing season is
scheduled to start in mid-August,
and only cannery preparation work
is underway now.
The seiners union is affiliated
with the International Longshore
men and Warehousemen's Union.
Entire Coast
Musters Aid,
Men in War
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11—UJV
Along the Pacific Coast today aid
was being mustered for Americans
fighting in Korea.
And for the first time since
fighting stopped in World War II,
censorship was taking form. It
wasn’t uniform, nor was it general
but it seemed to be growing. It
depended upon the viewpoint of
various officers.
The liner General W. H. Gordon,
was set to sail from San Francisco
this afternoon with 1,350 soldiers as
replacements in the Western Pa
cific.
At Long Beach the First Marine
Air Wing put its men and equip
ment aboard Navy transports,
headed fox' Korea.
The Air Force base at Spokane,
Wash., confirmed • that the 92nd
Bomb Group is well on its way to
points beyond Hawaii.
Between 1.200 and 1,500 workers
will be added to the 7,000 at Doug
las Aircraft Co., Long Beach. The
company has an $8,000,000 contract
to recondition mothballed B-26 at
tack bombers.
Sailing of the General Gordon
from San Francisco was held up to
permit troops to embark.
BRIDGES' STAND ON
KOREA CAUSES FIST
FIGHT, UNION MEET
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11—OPl—
Harry Bridges' opposition to his
own CIO union supporting U. S',
action in Korea precipitated a near
riot last night.
Several fist fights broke up the
meeting of Local 10, International
Longshorement’s and Warehouse
men's Union, and prevented a vote
bn the anti-Communist resolution.
Bridges is a member of the local.
Angry rightwing longshoremen
booed their international president
as he led the opposition. The
resolution had been offered by Phil
Sandin, president of the Local 10.
The resolution condemned North
Korean aggression, pledged the
union s loyalty to the United States,
promised to load all war cargoes,
and declared:
"We shall not join in, condone
or recognize any Communist deih
onstration or picket lines.”
Bridges offered an amendment
expressing support for the United
Nations "cease fire” order and ask
ing peaceful settlement of the Kor
ean war. Sandlin said the same
motion was defeated at a union
meeting last week, and thus had
been disposed of. Bridges’ appeal
from Sandin's ruling was defeated
by a vote.
The fist-swinging started after
one longshoreman then shouted:
“All the Commies should be load
ed into armored cars and sent to
Tule Lake.”
Egypt has given qualified ap
proval to United Nations interven
tion in Korea. Retreating from
a sharp criticism, Egypt now ap
proves the western struggle against
Communism,
Marine Amtracs Head for Korea
Amphibious tractors of the First Marine Division, which has been ordered to the Far East to reinforce
Gen. MacArthur’s command, travel through the water to the U. S. S. Gunston Hall, an LSD which will
take them to Korea. The ship was loaded while stuiding several miles off shore near Gamp Pendleton,
Calif. Wirephoto.
United Nations Flag
This is the flag of the United Nations which may be flown by Am
erican and others fighting to slop the Communist invasion of South
Korea. The flag is light blue, bearing a polar map of the world
flanked by twin olive branches. Diplomats in Washington reported
also that Gen. Douglas Mar Arthur probably will be named United
Nations commander for the Koreans. (/PI Wireplioto.
"LOST BATTALION"
STORY IS TOLD BY
ONE OF SURVIVORS
NEW YORK, July 11—MV-How
battle-weary survivors of the Ameri
can “Lost Battalion” in South Ko
rea fought against overwhelming
odds was described today in a dis
patch from the war front to the
New York Times.
The report, by Richard J. H.
Johnston, said at least a third of
32 G.I.’s treated by an Army medi
cal unit suffered battle fatigue after
having been cut off and surrounded
by Communist armored spearheads
near Suwon last week.
“We were doing good against odds
of better than 15 to one,” said Lt.
James L. Glawson of Godley, Tex,,
"but when you have no more am
munition and you are facing tanks
you can’t do much.”
Glawson, a veteran of some of the
heaviest fighting in Europe during
World War Two, said his company
of less than 100 men accounted for
at least 1,000 Communist attackers:
He added:
“In spite of their losses they just
kept on coming. I don’t claim to
understand the grand strategy of
this thing but I will never again
lead men into a situation like that
one.
"Our orders were to hold at all
cost. We did, but the cost was awful
high as far as I am concerned.”
WINTHERS VISIT
Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Winther of
Pelican are visiting here, stopping
at the Juneau Hotel.
FROM TENNESSEE
J. R. Elliott of Memphis, Tenn.,
is a guest at the Juneau Hotel.
SALMON TROLLERS
FINED FOR TAKING
HALIBUT NEAR TYEE
Two Petersburg stftj.mon {rollers
were fined $25 each yesterday af
ternoon by U.S. Commissioner Gor
don Gray for taking 209 pounds of
halibut near Tyee, at the south end
of Admiralty Island, on June 29, j
when the area was closed. ■
I
Ben Marshall and Archie Selpie |
had on board their troller about a
50-50 load of halibut and salmon.
Trollers are prohibited by law from
taking halibut incidentally during
operations, unlike cod or other bot
tom fishermen.
Lynn L. Crosby, agent for the
Fish and Wildlife Service at Tyee,
made the arrests and signed the
complaint, charging the men wf!*r
violating the Pacific Halibut Fish
ery regulations.
The men entered a plea of guilty
to the charge. The service sold the
illegally-taken fish to Sabastian and
Stewart of Tyee for $39.60, the
money being turned over to the dis
trict court here.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof from Seattle scheduled
to arrive 9 tonight.
Princess Norah from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive 7 tonight, sail
ing for Skagway at 11:30.
Chilcotin from Van'couver due 6
p.m. Thursday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver W dnesday.
Aleutian scheduled to sail from
Seattle Saturday.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
sail from Vancouver Saturday.
Alaska from west scheduled
southbound Friday.
STRIKE IS
THREATENED
AT SKAGWAY
SEATTLE, July 11—(JV-The U.S
Mediation and Conciliation Service
reported today a representative will
fly to Skagway, Alaska, in an ef
fort to settle a threatened strike on
the White Pass and Yukon Division
of the Pacific Arctic Railway and
Navigation Company.
Harry Lewis, regional director,
said Harold R. Conn was assigned
to the dispute.
Lewis said he did not have de
tails of the strike threat, which was
reported to him by the National Me
diation Board.
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ASSISTANT SECY.
NOMINATED FOR
AMBASSADORS
WASHINGTON, July 11 — tfl —
Assistant Secretary of State John
E. Peurifoy was nominated by
President Truman today to be Am
bassador to Greece. He also will
head the American aid mission to
that country.
Peurifoy has had charge of the
State Department’s security and
loyalty program which has been
under attack by Senator McCarthy
|R-Wis.).
The White House announcement
of Peurifoy's new assignment, how
ever, gave no explanation for the
shift of jobs.
The nomination must be con
firmed by the Senate. That raises
the question whether Republicans
might seek to block the appoint
ment in view of the controversy
over McCarthy's charges that the
State Department is a haven for
Communist sympathizers.
Peurifoy, a South Carolinian, is
a career diplomat.
• WEATHER REPORT
•
• In Juneau—Maximum, 69;
• minimum. 54.
• At Airport—Maximum, 79;
• minimum, 54.
•
• FORECAST
• (Juneau and Vicinity)
• Variable cloudiness to
• night and Wednesday. Low
• est temperature tonight
• about 52 degrees. Highest
• Wednesday near 66 degrees.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m today
• City of Juneau — Trace;
• since July 1—0.96 inches.
• At Airport — None;
• since July 1—0.37 inches.
FURIOUS RED
TANK ASSAULT
SLASHES U.S.
Yanks Retreating, Battled
by Clever Infiltration—
We've KO'd 144 Tanks
(By the Associated Press!
Tank-led Communist forces
mounted a furious new offensive
deep in South Korea today and an
American field headquarters spokes
man said U.S. troops were with*
drawing to prepared positions under
: pressure "all along our front line.'*
A communique from headquar
ters of Oen. MacArthur, U.N. com
mander, said U.S. forces were try
ing to halt the offensive above the
Kum River, last major defense line
the Americans have to stop the of
fensive before Taejon, the emer
gency South Korea capital.
North Korean tanks burst out of
fog-shrouded positions, cracked a
hole in American lines and led pos
sibly a division of Communist troops
through the gap. shoving Americans
out of places gained in an earlier
counterattack.
The field headquarters spokesman
said the Reds are using infiltration
tactics as good as any he had ever
seen. He said they “infiltrate by
dressing in civilian clothes and
move behind our lines at night.”
Drive "Blunted”
The MacArthur communique said
U.S. forces blunted the drive of one
enemy column eight miles north
west of Chnehittdrt on bits sduth
bank of the Miho river, a tribu
' tary of the Kum river. This drive
| had penetrated to about 25 miles
northwest of Taejon. Additional
Red troops and armor were reported
concentrating in the sector, and a
field headquarters' spokesman said
the situation was still "fluid" —
that is, constantly changing. ‘
Unofficial reports reaching Tokyo
said Americans gave up Chochiwon,
22 miles northwest of Taejon.
This apparently was the area of
the new Red offensive which
started early Tuesday, Tokvo time.
Yanks Knocked Over
Eleven tanks, some ,of them 60
ton Russian-made monsters, spear
headed the new assault, knocking
out some American machlnegun and
light artillery positions. At least
two American tanks were knocked
out.
Associated Press Correspondent
Tom Lambert at the front was un
able to give the location of the
battle because of security regula
tions, but presumably it was north
of the Kum river, about 13 miles
north of Taejon, emergency capltfU
of the South Korean republic.
Front dispatches said the tanks
burst out suddenly, heavily camou
flaged with tree branches.
With a see-saw Hattie raging
along the West Korean front, U.S.
and South Korean troops got
sledgehammer support, heaviest
thus far, from Allied planes. Allied
headquarters said the planes
knocked out at least 39 tanks and
218 other Red vehicles Monday.
This meant the Communists lost
at least 144 tanks thus far, but they
kept pouring their armour into four
major sectors stretching across a
45-mile-wide battle area. The armor
was wide open to air pounding fh
excellent flying weather.
Russ Jets Ineffectual
Three Russian jets — Yak-15s —
made their appearance, but did no
thing to stop the terrific mauling of
North Korean forces by Allg'd air
craft, which suffered no losses.
B-29 Superforts, meanwhile,
pounded Communist targets behind
their battle lines.
Reports of atrocities against
Americans continued. AP Corre
spondent William R. Moore re
ported he saw two more bodies of
Americans, hands tied behind their
backs, shot through the head.
American forces were infuriated.
Seven such bodies were found
yesterday, and front line reports in
dicated 18 American soldiers were
bound and slain by their Com
munist captors.
A regimental adjutant at the
front reported to field headquarters
that Ray Richards, correspondent
of the International News Service,
and Cpl. Ernie Peeler of the Tokyo
Stars and Stripes, the Army news
paper. were killed on the war front
Monday.