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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,651
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1950
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Chinese Red Forces Entering Korean War
Ballots Won'!
Change Demo
Majorities
Political Observers Say In
ternational Issues
Will Decide Vote
(By Jack Boll)
Associated Press Political Writer
The 1950 Congressional campaign
winds up today on a foreign policy
not" which made virtually a for
gotten Issue of President Truman's
once hotly debated “Fair Deal”
program.
In final appeals to the voters,
both major parties stressed inter
national questions despite strong
indications that many Senate and
House races—as well as some gov
ernorships—are likely to be settled
on strictly local situations.
No Change Demo Rule
The consensus of political obser
vers seemed to be that the re*
suits cf tomorrow's balloting would
provide no change in Democratic
control of the two houses of con
gress.
However, the experts left room
for a last-minute crystalization of
sentiment that might be reflected
in a surprising trend. The possib
ility that the recent adverse turn
of the Korean war would affect
the voters’ decision was not dis
counted by either party.
To Be Elected
To be elected are 32 state gov
ernors, 36 U. S. Senators and 432 U.
S. Representatives the full house
membership except for three Maine
seats, filled by Republicans In a
Sept. 11 election.
State election and party officials
have estimated that some 42,000,
000 votes may be cast. That would
be a record for a non-Presidential
year. Prospects were that the wea
ther would be favorable in most
sections of the country.
Taft Makes Attack
Senator Taft of Ohio, known
widely as "Mr. Republican,” was
the latest to add his voioe to the
chorus of international issues which
President Truman stressed with
his Saturday night speech in St.
Louis and which Harold E. Stassen
promptly took up for the Republi
cans.
Taft charged in a transcribed
radio speech broadcast by seven
Ohio stations yesterday that Pre
sident Truman had “killed” the
bipartisan foreign policy shortly
after the 1948 Presidential election.
Climaxing a battle with State
Auditor Joseph Ferguson in the
Ohio Senator race, Taft also charg
ed the Truman administration with
responsibility of high prices and
high taxes."
Truman’s Views
President Truman in turn has
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
CopTrUBy drew Pearson**’ ^
Washington—when this hot
and hectic election campaign is
over the weirdest story undoubtedly
will be that of how Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey bulldozed Lieut. Gov. Joe
Hanley out of the New York guber
natorial race and his efforts to
destroy the Hanley letter which
followed.
Here are inside facts regarding
this amazing story not hitherto
published.
The story began, of course, in late
August when the -polls showed Tru
man’s 'political popularity at its
lowest ebb and when Korean de
feats were at their worst. At this
time Winthrop Aldrich, head of the
Chase National Bank, conferred
in Bar Harbor, Me., with his bfoth
er-in-law, John D. Rockefeller, and
as a result, Aldrich staged a lunch
eon of GOP bigwigs in his office,
Aug. 8, at which he laid down an
ultimatum that Hanley must with
draw from the race and Dewey
must be the gubernatorial candi
date.
Otherwise, Aldrich bluntly warn
ed no campaign funds would be
forthcoming. Since Aldrich has been
the biggest single money-raiser for
Dewey, this warning meant some
thing. ___
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N. Y. Gubernatorial Candidates
In the hot New York State race for the governorship, the main
rivals are Republican incumbent Thomas E. Dewey (left) and Walter
A. Lynch (right) who is running on the Democrat and Liberal tickets.
UP) Wirephoto.
VOTERS GO
TO POLLS
TOMORROW
Forty-two Million Expect
ed to Cast Ballots in 1
Nation Tuesday
(By the Associated Press)
The nation’s voters tomorrow will
choose 36 US. Senators, 432 U.S
Representatives, and 32 state Gov
ernors. (Maine elected a Republican
Governor and three Republican rep
resentatives Sept. 11).
Qualified to vote are an estimated
70,000.000 out of perhaps 98,000,000
eligibles.
Probable vote: 42,000,000 (esti
mated by state election and party
officials).
Polls closed ar/early as 4 p.m.,
EST, in parts of Rhode Island and
Massachusetts, and as late as 11
p.m., EST, in Washington, Oregon
and part of California.
Present Senate division: Demo
crats 54, Republicans 42. Needed for
control 49.
Present House lineup: Democrats
259 plus three vacancies: Republi
cans 169 plus three vacancies;
American-Labor, one. Needed for
control 218.
Present Governors: Democrats 29,
Republicans 19.
There are 1,087 candidates for
Senate, House and Governor, in
cluding 42 women.
(HINA MIX
IS SERIOUS
SAYS GROSS
LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 6—(<T>—'The
United States today called for a
special Security Council meeting
Wednesday to consider the inter
vention of Red China in the Kor
ean war.
The meeting was requested shortly
after Gen. Douglas MacArthur for
mally reported to the council that
Chinese Communist troops had
crossed into Korea and were fight
ing U. N. troops.
U. S. Delegate Ernest A. Gross
said the delay in the coucil meeting
was to give the delegates a chance
for private consultations on the
“serious” situation. He said the
United States already had been
carrying on private talks with some
delegates.
MacArthur’s charges were made
in a special report transmitted to
the council by Chief U. S. Delegate
Warren R. Austin.
The report was discussed at a
closed meeting of the seven-nation
interim committee on Korea shortly
afte it was made public. U. S. Del
egate Ernest A. Gross took part in
the discussions. Col. Alfred Katzin,
special representative of U. N. Sec
cretary-General Trygve Lie, also
was present.
PASSENGER
SERVICE IS
BACKAGAIN
Agreement Reached with
Marine Cooks, Stewards
Union, Alaska Steam
SEATLE, Nov. 6—UP)—The Alaska
Steamship Company’s month long
curtailment of passenger service
on its vessels to Alaska will end
this Friday with sailing of the SS
Denali.
Company spokesmen said in a
Weekend announcement that an
agreement permitting resumption
of passenger service had been
reached with the Marine Cooks and
Steward’s Union (Ind.)
Sailings, other than for freight,
were halted Oct. 5 when Stewards
balked at signing aboard ship under
the Coast Guard’s security screen
ing procedure.
Under the agreement, the union
will submit to the screening pro
gram with future complaints hand
led as grievances under the exist
ing work contract. The Company,
said D. E. Skinner, vice president
of the steamship line, has agreed
to establishment of appeal boards
in the area for the quick review
of cases of rejected seamen.
SHAW CREMATED,
MAY BE BURIED
IN WESTMINSTER
LONDON, Nov. 6—1^—The body
of George Bernard Shaw will be
cremated today (at 11 a.m., EST), in
the presence of a few friends and
servants.
There will be no religious service
and no funeral service. The ashes
of the great dramatist will stand
beside those of his wife, Charlotte,
until it is decided what to do with
them.
Shaw told friends he wanted his
ashes mixed with those of his wife
who died in 1943.
There is a possibility, however,
that the remains of the great play
wright and wit will be placed in the
poets’ corner of Westminster Abbey,
wfiere most of England’s great men
of letters are buried.
No decision on the question can
be made until it has been formally
proposed, and then decided by the
Dean of Westminster.
STUMER MOVEMENTS
Freighter Coastal Rambler from
Seattle in port and scheduled to sail
tomorrow morning.
Baranof from Seattle with cargo
only due Tuesday afternoon.
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle Friday with passengers and
cargo.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
| from Vancouver, Saturday, Nov. 11.
! Regimental song of the Seventh
, Cavalry is “Garry Owen."
(
FREE WORLD
MUST COMBAT
REDS,TRUMAN
(By Ernest B. Vaccaro)
INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Nov. 6—tfl
—President Truman declared today
that peaceable nations are “building
up the combined strength of the
free world” to meet Communism's
“continuing menace to world peace.”
"The leaders of Communist im
perialism have chosen to follow the
use of force, they are seeking to
impose their will upon peoples all
over the world.
"So long as they persist in that
course, the free nations have but
one choice if they are to remain
free. They must oppose strength
with Strength.”
Speaking after a grave long dis
tance telephone conference with
Secretary of State Acheson on the
movement of Chinese troops into
Korea, Mr. Truman declared:
“The fellowship of freedom will
prevail against tyranny and bring
peace and Justice to the world. For
freedom is the true destiny of man.”
The presidential press secretary,
Charles G. Ross, wouldn’t comment
on Mr. Truman’s talk with Acheson
or on the communique by General
Douglas MacArthur in which he de
nounced the Chinese Red’s activities
in Korea as “one of the most offen
sive acts of lawlessness” in history.
Independent Union
Claims Jurisdklion,
Cooks, Stewards
SEATTLE. Nov. 6—(£t—A rival
union announced a campaign today
to win Jurisdiction over workers now
in the Marine Cooks and Stewards’
Union (Ind.).
Don L. Rotan, Secretary-Treas
urer of the Pacific Marine Stewards
(also Independent) said in a letter
to other maritime unions that his
group “formally claims the jurisdic
tion in the West Coast maritime in
dustry now held by the so-called
National Union of Marine Cooks and
Stewards.”
Rotan’s union was formed by
members who broke with the Marine
Cooks and Stewards’ Union. The
latter was expelled from the Na
tional CIO on a charge of following
the Communist party line.
The group headed by Rotan sought
a year ago to take over stewards in
Alaskan ships, but was prevented
from getting an election by a ruling
of the National Labor Relations |
Board.
GIRL SCOUT TALK
TO LIONS CLUB HERE
_ I
Janet Flint and Nancy McDowell,]
Girl Scouts, outlined scouting activ- I
itles and the importance of having a
Girl Scout camp of their own, today
at a regular meeting of the Juneau
Lions Club at the Baranof Hotel.
Miss Flint told of camp work and
the needs at their newly acquired
campsite where they hope to put up
a kitchen and mess hall, get a water
system, and a road to the site with
the $5,000 which they are trying to
raise in a drive this week.
Miss McDowell expressed appre
ciation for the volunteer leadership
for Girl Scouts and to the backers
of scouting. She said that there
were 14 troops, comprising 275 girls ]
in the Gastineau Channel who ben
efited from scouting. Among the
activities of the groups were enter
taining at the hospitals, reading to
patients, playing cards with them
and making favors for shut-ins, she
said.
In the absence of the president
and all vice presidents. Director Alva
Blacker by presided. The matter of j
luncheon costs was discussed and
Martin Holm was appointed to con
tact other luncheon clubs and the
Chamber of Commerce to get to
gether on the matter.
The Lions accepted an invitation
to participate In a Women's Club
luncheon at the Legion Dugout on,
Dec. 4.
Ed Chester reported that there
was no chance now for a swimming
pool from Public Works funds, but
still an opportunity to cooperate
with the City of Juneau on the
project.
Don Miller is program chairman
for November. j
Questions Captured Chinese
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U. S. Army Lieut. Reynold Muranaka of Honolulu (right) questions some of 16 Chinese captured near
Changjin Reservoir near the Manchurian border. Army officials said they are wearing Chinese Com
munist army uniforms and that the men said they were part of a non-combat group supplying the
North Korean forces with ammunition. Iff) Wirephoto via radio from Tokyo.
TRUMAN IS
NOW GIVEN
i LOW DOWN
i
|President Gets Info from
Acheson on Situa
etion in Korea
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 6 — —
President Truman had a long tele
phone conference today with Secre
tary of State Acheson on the wor
sening situation In Korea. .
Associates, unquotable by name, I
said Mr. Truman was deeply con- I
cerned over the movement of Chi- I
nese Communist troops into North'
Korea from Manchuria.
Officially, however, the President
maintained silence on this develop
ment as well as on General Doug
las MacArthur’s communique, de
nouncing it as "one of the most
offensive acts of lawlessness” in his
tory.
Presidential Secretary Charles G.
Ross said that Mr. Truman had
been "filled in on the whole situa
tion” in his talk with Secretary
Acheson.
CAA INSPECTION TRIP
ABOARD CAA BSP 3144
An inspection and repair party of
Anchorage leaves tomorrow aboard
the CAA barge, BSP 3144, skippered
by Gordon Meyer, for Petersburg.
Sunset Cove and Narrow Point. The
barge returns here in about 10
days.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures tor 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o’clock this morning
In Juneau—Maximum, 33;
minimum, 22.
At Airport—Maximum 29;
minimum, 22.
FORECAST
(Janeau and Vicinity)
Partly cloudy tonight, with
occasional gusty winds in
town. Lowest temperature
tonight, near 24 degrees, and
as low as 15 degrees in out
lying districts. Fair Tuesday,
with highest temperature
about freezing—that is 32
degrees.
precipitation
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today
City of Juneau—.22 inches;
since Nov. 1 — 3.10 inches;
since July 1 — 32.13 inches.
At Airport — .05 inches;
since Nov. 1 — 1.32 inches;
since July 1 — 23.37 inches.
No Reported
Withdrawal,
Red Chinese
WASHINGTON. Nov. 6—(*—A
spokesman said today the Defense
Department has received no infor
mation to suggest the Chinese Reds
are withdrawing from North Korea.
His statement was made when re
porters told him there were rumors
and some published reports of a Red
withdrawal.
Similarly, the spokesman said the
department has no information
about any declaration of war or
state of belligerency by the Chinese
Communist government.
SEOUL. Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 7—
(jD—Reports circulated in the United
States that the Chinese Reds were
withdrawing from Korea drew from
Eighth Army intelligence headquar
ters today the comment, “Our indi
cations are they are still there.”
U. S. air observers also had no
indication of any Red withdrawal.
ALEKNEGIK SCHOOL
BURNEDTOGROUND
The main building of the Bristol
Bay Mission School at Aleknagik,
burned to the ground on Sunday
October 29, John Griffin, treasurer,
said today. This school is operated
by the Alaska Mission of Seventh,
day Adventists for native students
from all areas of Alaska. In addi
tiori to those from the Bay area,
several are from St. Lawrence Is
land and Nome.
Although complete information
has not been received, it Is under
stood that the new dormitory built
by Robert Wagner, formerly of
Douglas and Juneau, was undam
aged. A letter from Mrs. Wagner
revealed that they lost all of their
personal effects. The great loss will
be to the students who make this
place their home.
A new shipment of musical in
struments had just been received
by, Mr. McGhee, principal of the
school. McGhee conducted a 35
piece band at the school last year.
In addition to regular instruction
each student was given lessons on
the musical instruments of his
choice. This program is going to
be seriously hampered by this fire
loss.
The three story main building
contained living quarters for some
of the students and faculty, class,
rooms, dining room and kitchen. A
10,000 watt light plant was located J
in a corner of the basement. The |
building was partially covered by
Insurance. j
COMMIE
CHINATO
BE WARNED.
Will Probably Be Told by
U. 5. to Stay Out of
Korean War or Else
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — UD —
The United States may tell Com
munist China to stop sending troops
to aid the Korean Reds or face de
struction of the great Suiho Dam,
a major source of power for China.
I The report that such a warning
is under serious consideration came
simultaneously with release of a
special communique from Oen.
Douglas MacArthur, United. Nations
commander in the Far East, noting
the presence of “alien Communist
forces” in the Korean fighting.
Any such threat against the power
installations presumably would be
accompanied by assurances that if
the Chinese Communists refrains
from further intervention the
agreements under which Manchuria
and Korea share the Suiho power
will be observed and maintained.
_
POWERS ON INTERIOR
TRIP FOR 3 WEEKS
Maurice Powers, Boy Scout ex
ecutive, leaves tomorrow for a three
weeks business trip to Nome, Fair
banks and Anchorage. In Fairbanks,
he meets with the Boy Scout ex
ecutive board and accompanies
Duane A. Force to Nome. While
in Nome, Powers meets Rev. Rob
ert Treat, who was active In cub
work while In the Methodist pulpit
here.
Force goes to Kotzebue from
Nome to confer with the leader
of an Eskimo Boy Scout troop
before returning to Fairbanks.
Force has been selected to. fill the
vacancy of Russell aApple In Fair
banks after he was transferred to
Hpnolulu.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Nov. 6 — Closing !
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today Is 2'■£, American Can
95%, American Tel. and Tel. 150Vi,
Anaconda 34%, Douglas Aircraft
79 Vi, General Electric 48%, General !
Motors 46%, Goodyear 57%, Libby,
McNeill and Libby 8, Northern Pa
cific 24%, Standard Oil of Cali- '
fornla 75%, Twentieth Century Fox
21%, U.S. Steel 40%.
Sales today were 2,570,000 shares. '
Averages today are as follows: In
dustrials 222.43, rails 64.48, utilities
39.73.
SITUATION
IS SERIOUS
! IS REPORT
i _
MacArfhur Calls Action
Great Act of Interna
tional Lawlessness
SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 6—<Fi—Amer
ican troops in northwest Korea this
afternoon recovered a half-mile of
ground lost to a morning Com
munist attack and fought bitterly
for no gain In the northeast against
an enemy newly Identified by Gen
eral MacArthur as Chinese Reds.
Elements of two U.S. Divisions
holding the bridgehead area north
of the Chongchon river near Ko
rea’s west coast recovered the ter
ritory lost to the Reds six miles
north of Anju.
They had been shoved back an
estimated half-mile by two batta
lions of Communists who attacked
in darkness at 4:30 a.m., but were
finally halted at 7 a.m.
An earlier enemy feint at the
bridgehead Sunday night had.been
stopped cold by American artillery,
while Australian troops of the
British commonwealth brigade also
halted a stab by two Red com
panies in a heavy fire-fight.
Despite these to-and-fro strug
gles, the northwest flank was de
scribed as relatively quiet Monday,
compared with the big actions of
last week that caused a 50-mile
American withdrawal.
Strafed by Yak*
Five .Russian-made Yak fighter
planes ineffectively strafed part of
the South Korean Sixth Division on
that front near Kuna late Monday.
In the northeast, UR. Marines
beat back a bitter Chlnse counter
attack in slashing, hand-to-hand
combat Monday Just south of the
Changjln power reservoir. The Ma
rine drive towards that dam failed
to gain ground for the fourth con
secutive day, UR. Tenth Corpe
headquarters announced.
One Allied Gain
In the farthest northeast sector,
elements of the South Korean Capi
tal Division plunged 18 miles north
of the town of Kllchu, putting them
105 miles from the frontier of So
viet Siberia. This was the only ap
preciable Allied gain of the day.
Elements of the UR. Seventh Di
vision, also in the extreme north
east, dug in on the frigid south
banks of the Ungi river and sent out
patrols to seek the enemy in 2
below-zero weather.
This generally grim picture of the
Korean war, after victory had been
well within grasp of the United Na
tions' forces, was attributed by Gen
eral MacArthur, the U.N. com
mander, to intervention of Chinese
Communist troops.
New Foe Meet
"The United Nations forces are
meeting a new foe,” MacArthur said
in a special report transmitted at
Lake Success by the chief UR. Dele
gate, Warren Austin.
“The United Nations are presently
In hostile contact with Chinese
Communist military units." the re
port said. It gave a detailed account
of specific Chinese Red units which
have been identified.
In an extraordinary communique
issued only a few hours earlier Mac
Arthur referred only to “alien Com
munist forces” and branded their
intervention in Korea as "one of the
most offensive acts of international
lawlessness" in history.
Complies M n ed
The U.N. commander's communi
que said “a great concentration” of
Communist divisions was massed in
Manchuria. He called this threat
"a matter of the gravest interna
tional significance.”
Sources close to him spoke even
more ominously. They said the start
of a third World War may hinge
on Red China's reaction to Mac
Arthur’s accusation.
Communist China might not an
swer MacArthur. they said, except
by sending in more Red divisions.
Orders From Russia
President Syngman Rhee of the
Republic of Korea said he believes
Soviet Russia ordered the Chinese
Reds into Korea.
Diplomats predicted the United
States might ask the U.N. Security
Council to act.
In Kansas City, a spokesman said
Sunday that President Truman had
no comment.
World capitals viewed the tense
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