THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
UALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME'_
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,761
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1951
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ELECTIVE
GOVERNOR
AT ISSUE
By BOB DEARMOND
Whether a House memorial asking
that Congress enact legislation to
provide for the election of the Gov
ernor of Alaska should go to Con
gress as just that, or whether it
should be cluttered up with refer
ences and requests regarding public
lands, control of fisheries, elimina
tion of fish traps and other matters
was the issue before the House of
Representatives during much of its
forenoon session today.
Rep. McCutcheon’s motion to
table the memorial when it came
up for consideration was defeated
by a 10-14 vote. All except one of
the proposed amendments were de
feated by votes of 10-14 or 11-13.
An amendment by Rep. Metcalf
to include a request that the Secre
tary of Alaska or lieutenant-gov
ernor also be elected was adopted
by a 13-11 vote.
Amendments to include requests
regarding fisheries and fish traps
were opposed on the grounds that
these subjects had been covered by
other memorials to Congress.
Opposing changes, which they as
serted would confuse the issue, were
the 10 Republican members of the'
House and Democrats Franklin.
Degnan, Wells and Madsen.
Slap at Gruening
“I am beginning to feel that this
memorial is intended as a slap at
Governor Gruening,” said Rep, Mc
Cutcheon after several of the
amendments had been voted down.
“There is no such intention," re
torted Rep, Barnes, “and I do not
see that there can be any such feel
ing since Governor Gruening him
self dictated a very similar memor
ial in 1943 and it was passed by
both the House and Senate.”
An amendment seeking to strike
out a portion of the memorial re
ferring to a bill now before Con
gress was offered and defeated.
Rep. Kay and McCutcheon partic
ularly objected to this portion of
the memorial, contending that it
endorses Senator Butler’s bill to
provide for an elective governor.
The memorial does not specific
ally mention the bill introduced by
Senator Butler, whom Kay and
McCutcheon termed “the arch en
emy of statehood.” A bill for the
election of the governors of both
Alaska and Hawaii has been intro
duced in the House of Representa
tives at Washington by Congress
man Miller.
The memorial was held over for
at least one more day when Rep.
McCutcheon gave notice of his in
tention . to reconsider his vote on
one of the amendments.
Bills Passed
The House this morning passed
two of its own bills: H. B. 118, pro
viding that half of the wolf bounty
appropriation for the next biennium
is to be expended by the Fish and
Wildlife Service for wolf conti%l;
H. B. 164. repealing the balance of
the 1949 appropriation for the De
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyrleht. 1951. By Bell Syndicate. Inc..
(Ed. Note: Drew Pearson is on
a flying tour of Europe and the
middle East, surveying the world
situation.) •
FRANKFORT—The No. 1 Amer
ican mystery of Europe continues to
be the sudden and unsolved dis
appearance of four Americans in
the Noel Field case after Field was
named by Whittaker Chambers as
a member of the Communist cell
in the U. S. State Department. This
case is now being linked for the
first time with another unsolved
mystery in the United States—the
strange death of Laurence Duggan,
found in a snowbank 16 floors be
low his New York office. Duggan
also was named in the State De
partment investigation, though
cleared by the Justice Department.
The amazing thing is that a total
of seven people have now died
mysteriously or disappeared even
more mysteriously following revel
ations in the Alger Hiss case.
yhe four people who have disap
peared behind the Iron Curtain
(Continued on Page Four;
partment of Fisheries, effective May
1 of this year.
At the time of the noon recess the
House had under consideration S.
B. 92, amending the law relating
to qualifications of the Commis
sioner of Education.
Saturday Session
In morning, afternoon and eve
ning sessions on Saturday, the
House passed two of its own me
morials and one of its own bills,
passed 12 Senate bills and killed
one Senate bill by indefinite post
ponement.
It also held a joint session with
the Senate and confirmed 44 of 4C
appointments by the Governor to
Territorial boards and commissions.
During the joint session the Joint
Rules were amended to permit con
sideration of bills for two additional
doys—today and Tuesday. The rules
had prohibited consideration of any
except revenue and appropriations
bills after 56th day of the session,
which was yesterday.
Earlier in the day the House had
adopted the 1949 House Rules as
the Permanent Rules for the lf)51
session. It has previously operated
under temporary rules.
Liquor Bills
For the most part, the House
Rules Committee placed on Satur
day's calendar only the less con
troversial Senate bills, but two bills
amending the liquor laws got mixed
in with the others. Both bills stirred
up debate. One was amended and
held for further consideration; the
other was killed by indefinite post
ponement.
S. B. 86, making it a misdemeanor
for a minor "to solicit the purchase
of or in any other way to attempt
to purchase or otherwise secure any
intoxicating liquors, including beer
and wine.”
“This bill goes much too far,”
asserted Rep. Wilbur. “It would
punish a child if the parent were
to give it a sip of wine or beer.”
“I don’t believe a youngster should
be punished for being baited into
these traps,” said Rep. McCutcheon,
speaking of bars and nightclubs. He
offered an amendment to provide
that the parents of minors attempt
ing to purchase liquors would be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
The amendment was defeated but
other amendments striking out the
words “or otherwise secure" and
making the proposed law’ applicable
only to minors in the 19-20-age
group were adopted. The bill was
sent to the Engrossment Committee
and will come up for final consid
eration at a later date.
License Petitions
Indefinitely postponed by a 14-10
vote was S. B. 10. The bill would
eliminate the present requirement
that liquor establishments outside
of incorporated towns must file pe
titions with each renewal applica
tion. The petition must be signed
by a majority of the persons over
21 living within two miles of the
liquor establishment.
"The present law shackles private
enterprise — some of these places
have to secure as many as 3,800
names and the cost of circulating
the petitions is enormous,” said
Rep. Metcalfe.
“There are ways of drying up an
area by local option.” said Rep.
Scavenius. “There is no need for
placing this burden on the liquor
dealers.”
“I am not so much concerned with
th burden on the liquor dealers as
I am with the ridiculous burden it
places on our courts,” Rep. Kay
said. “The dealers have to circu
late these petitions year after year,
even when there is no demand for
local option, and the courts spend
much of their time counting the
names on the petitions.”
Other Burdens
“The liquor industry places a
great many burdens on the courts
in other ways,” contended Rep.
Barnes. “Perhaps if there were not
so many crimes that .result from j
liquor, the courts would have plenty]
of time to count names.”
“It is difficult to get any liquor
law enforcement outside of munici
palities and the present law is about
the only check we have," said Rep.
Hendrickson.
Said Rep. Hope: “Since I came
to the Legislature in 1945 we haven’t
passed one law to tighten liquor
control. Frank Metcalf admitted
that the Highway .Patrol does very
little along the line of liquor law
enforcement. If circulating these
petitions costs the dealers money, it
helps create a payroll. They pass
along the cost anyway.”
Hydrogen Bomb
“I don’t' believe in loosening any
restrictions on people who sell
liquor,” announced Rep. Pollard.
“The chemical formula for alcohol
shows that it contains hydrogen.
(Continued on Page Two)
LEGISLATURE
HEADING INTO
FINAL 4 DAYS
By JIM HUTCHESON
Alaska’s 20th Legislature starts
down the four-day home stretch
today.
Thursday will be Its 60th and
final legal day but by the law of
averages it probably will carry, into
Friday.
One of the big remaining ques
tions is what new taxes, if any,
may be enacted. The House is still
considering the Senate-approved
boost in the canned salmon tax and
the increase to five cents a pack
in the cigarette tax.
Warning Sounded
Rep. Glenn Franklin (D-Bound
ary), chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee, sounded a
warning Saturday, however, that
some new revenue measure might
have to be rushed through in the
final hours to balance the budget
which presently shows signs of a
deficit exceeding $2,000,000.
An increase in the Territorial in
come tax, possibly to 12 per cent
of Federal income payments from
the present 10 per cent, has been
mentioned by some legislators as
one possibility.
Defense Bill Up
Major bills still awaiting action
include the $1,100,000 civilian de
fense bill, to undergo its first legis
lative scrutiny in the Senate today.
Evan its supporters are predicting
the appropriations probably will be
less than $500,000.
The House-approved Government
Reorganization Bill is on the Senate
calendar today. The $18,300,000 Gen
eral Appropriations Bill is also in
the Senate after having passed the
House with record speed but some
extensive overhauling is expected.
Another major bill hanging fire
is the lengthy banking code revision
which passed the House once but
was returned to it with many
amendments by the Senate. The
Wage-Hour Bill also is still in free
conference committee and both
Houses must act on the final re
port.
Tables Property Tax Bill
The Senate tabled on a 7-6 vote
Saturday night a House-approved
bill by Amelia Gundersen to ex
tend the general property tax ex
emption for new industry to five
years, from the present three. The
exemptions were proposed primarily
as an incentive for the projected
Ketchikan pulp mill.
Dr. R. M. MacKenzie. Ketchikan
Democrat, said he moved to table
because the property tax law is
presently involved in a court test.
Members of the Senate Finance
Committee have predicted the civil
ian defense appropriation proposal
will be cut drastically.
Col. Joseph Alexander, acting ad
jutant general of the Alaska Na
tional Guard and civilian defense
head, on the Senate stand, Satur
day night, emphasized the military
didn’t want to be involved in a
major civilian protection problem
in case of hostilities, which would
keep it occupied.
Martial Law Maybe
Senator Howard Lyng, Nome
Democrat, tried to bring out that
in case of attack the military would
probably declare martial law and
take over anyhow.
“If we are not attacked, we won’t
need civilian defense anyhow, will
we?” Lyng asked.
Alexander replied: “I think we
are in the path of flights to the
United States. I think an enemy
would drop bombs at key spots in
Alaska.”
Amendments to the Civilian De
fense Bill adopted by the Senate
included one to exempt newspapers
and news services from seizure at
the governor’s order in case of ene
my action against Alaska.
Lyng questioned Colonel Alex
ander closely about civilian defense
needs, and said he would have
amendments to offer today.
“If we had no civilian defense or
ganization at all what would we
do?” he asked fhe colonel.
“The military can’t properly do
these "other things,” Alexander re
plied. “In case of an emergency, it
would be engaged in winning a war.
The aid of civilians is needed be
cause war s are becoming more and
more peoples’ wars."
Evacuation Maybe
He said a decision had been made
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TERRITORY GETS
BILL FOR $2,350
FOR CONSULTANT
A bill for $2,350 for the expenses
and services of H. Clyde Reeves ir.
drafting the government reorganiz
ation bill was received by the Sen
ate today.
It was from the Council of State
Governments. Reeves, the Kentucky
state revenue commissioner wh(
also goes out on such advisory proj
ects, was sent here by the Council.
The bill read in the Senate pro
vides $1,600 for the consultant's
services and $750 for his expenses.
The Senate passed a resolution
this morning for an appropriation
of up to $2,500 to pay the bill. It
passed the House previously.
The reorganization bill has passec
the House but it has not come uf
on the Senate floor for debate yet
It was on the Senate calendar Fri
day, Saturday and today, but it re
mained 17 bills from the top ai
noontime.
The Senate passed this mornini
the House-approved bill setting
forth legal procedures for assign
ment of accounts receivable. It madf
no amendments so the bill now goe.
to the governor.
Elmer Rasmuson, Anchoragf
banker, took the witness stand foi
the measure. He explained that on<
of the greatest needs for it is ir
helping Alaska sub-contractors li
their financing under the presen
military construction program. H<
said it would "permit small ac
counts to get on the same basi
with larger ones.”
The Senate refused to receive
numerous bills from the House, be
cause it was after the deadline foi
the non-appropriation variety, bu
it voted II to 5 to accept a "sea-1
sonal wage credits” bill.
It was House Bill No. 120, by Rep
Wendell Kay (D-Anchorage), ant
supported by labor groups. It pro
poses opening the doorway to allow
workers in seasonal industries tt
qualify for some unemploymen
compensation benefit if they earr
up to 20 per cent of their year’!
wages at work outside the seasons
category. Sen. Howard Lyng spokt
strongly for acceptance of the bil
on the contention that anythin!
that would help Alaska’s seasonal in
dustry workers get a few chips out
of the unemployment compensator
fund was desirable. Sen. Ed Ander
son, another Nome Democratic sen
ator, expressed the same thought.
STUMER MOVEMENTS
Denali from Seattle in port and
scheduled to sail for westward thi;
afternoon.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle at 4 p.m. Friday.
Princess Norah scheduled to ar
rive at 12:30 a.m. tomorrow and sails
south at 1:30 a.m.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, March 19 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%, American Can
107%, American Tel. and Tel. 15514,
Anaconda 39%, General Electric
5376, General Motors 52. Goodyear
72%, Kennecott 71, Libby, McNeil
and Libby 9%, Northern Pacific
33 ‘i, Standard Oil of California
45%, Twentieth Century Fox 21%,
U. S. Steel 42%, Pound $2.80%, Ca
nadian Exchange 95.56%.
Sales today were 1,120,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 248.06, rails 82.04, utili
ties 42.87.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
41; minimum, 37.
At Airport — Maximum,
38; minimum, 34.
FORECAST
Cloudy with intermittent
rain tonight and Tuesday.
' Lowest temperature tonight
near 30 and highest tempera
ture tomorrow about 41 de
grees.
precipitation
(Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a m. today
City of Juneau—1.31 Inches;
Since March 1—3.64 inches;
Since July 1—54.53 inches.
At Airport—.47 inches;
Since March 1 —2.02 inches;
Since July 1 — 34.50 inches.
O'DWYER HAS
NEW VERSION
RELES DEATH
NEW YORK. March 19. — (*) —
Former Mayor William O'Dwyer
;old the Senate Crime Committee
oday that he visited gambler Frank
Jostello in 1942.
“I saw Costello definitely at his
home — possibly twice,” O’Dwyer
said.
O'Dwyer said he was in the Army
it the time.
The former mayor said he went
;o Costello's home to talk to him
ibout Air Force contracts. O’Dwyer
»as serving the Army in an in
vestigating capacity.
O’Dwyer said other visitors in the
Costello home at the time included
rvlng Sherman, Bert Stand, "Judge
Savarese and Congressman Mike
Kennedy.”
O’Dwyer, now ambassador to
Mexico, said he didn’t expect to
,ee the men there.
“I had approximately one-half
lour of conversatoin with Costello,”
he former mayor said.
Underworld Leader
O'Dwyer's story of his visit to
Costello came after the former
nayor reeled off a list of names of
ive underworld leaders he said he
egarded as "big’’ figures in Ameri
;an crime. This was in response
0 committee questions concerning
1 "big six” crime directorate.
The former mayor said his in
vestigation into Murder, Inc., while
le was Brooklyn District Attorney
evealed to him that a nation-wide
rirfie syndicate with no single
eader conducted its own court ses
iions and passed death sentences.
Earlier, Sen. Charles W. Tobey
R-NH) today told former Mayor
William O'Dwyer that his version
jf the death of a key "Murder,
Inc.” witness varied from other
estimony before the Senate Crime
Committee.
O’Dwyer said the witness, Abe
fieles, was trying to escape when
ne was killed in a plunge out a
sixth-floor window of a Coney Is
land hotel in 1941.
Tobey informed O'Dwyer that
Sank S. Bals, a former Seventh
Deputy Police Commissioner, told
;he committee that Reles was try
ing to lower himself to a fifth-floor
• window to play a joke on his police
guards.
“How could anyone tell what was
in Reles’ mind?" asked O’Dwyerl
Millions Attend Via TV
The national television audience
for today’s hearing was estimated
at 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 persons
by WPIX, the New York News Sta
tion which is originating the tele
casts for itself as well as other
stations.
The audience in the Greater New
York area was estimated at 4,500,000
to 5,000,000. The hearings are being
telecast in 19 cities.
As O’Dwyer testified beads of per
spiration dotted his forehead under
the warm television and moving
pictures lights.
He halted occasionally to wipe his
brow.
At times his voice broke slightly,
but recovered when he took drinks
of water from a glass.
O’Dwyer was Brooklyn District
Attorney at the time of Reles’ death.
He is now ambassador to Mexico.
Testimony Contradicts.
Tobey quoted Bals as saying that
Reles intended to enter the fifth
floor window and then go upstairs
and tell his guards “peek-a-boo.”
“Your testimony contravenes that
of Mr. Bals, whose testimony was
| that he was not trying to escape,”
! Tobey added.
The Reles case came into the
picture after Sen. Estes Kefauver
iD-Tlnn) interrupted > O'Dwyer in
a lon(£ story of petty crime condi
tions he had observed as a police
man, magistrate and mayor.
O’Dwyer had told of slum condi
tions and of pinball and mint
machines that he said encouraged
children to gamble and steal.
Kefauver broke in to suggest that
the former mayor "get down to
details of organized crime in this
section.’’
Sen. and Mrs. W. L. (Dan) Lha
mon and their daughter arrived by
plane from Seattle Sunday after
noon. The Fairbanks senator had
’ been excused from the Senate Fri
| day and Saturday to fly south to
meet his wife, who was receiving
j medical treatment. Mrs. Lhamon
j had driven north from California.
New Bombers
Can Hit Reds
Via Arctic
WASHINGTON, March 19 —UB—
Col. Bernt Balchen, the Air Force’s
Arctic expert, says this country's
latest type bombers are capable of
flying the Polar route to attack
strategic targets in Russia.
In any future war, Balchen said,
it is reasonable to assume that the
first and perhaps decisive air at
tacks might start from the Arctic
or sub-Arctic regions.
He added, in a talk prepared for
the NBC television program "Battle
Report:”
“The shortest route — the great
circle tracks — between a number
of industrial centers and military
bases in North America and the
Soviet, particularly points in the
Ural and Siberian industrial com
plexes, are all passing through the
Arctic regions and some of them
nearly across the geographical North
Pole.
“This strategic problem is very
convenient for the Air Forces’
strategic bombing of industrial tar
gets with modern types of high ef
ficiency projectiles. Wiping out the
war production potential of an en
emy should greatly reduce our loss
and costs of any future war.”
Balchen quoted Gen. Carl Spaatz
(retired), former chief of staff of
the Air Force, as saying:
“Across the Arctic any industrial
target (country) is within the reach
of our Air Force. The United States
is similarly exposed. We are really
all open across the Arctic.”
MINNIE FIELD
PASSES AWAY IN
SEATTLE HOSPITAL
Word was received here this
morning by Mrs. Peggy Mclvor of
the death of Miss Minnie Field
at 7:55 o’clock this morning at
Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle.
The message was from Mrs. Frank
Pearce of Douglas, who took Miss
Field south about ten days ago
for medical treatment.
Minnie Field was among Juneau’s
best-known citizens, having made
an esteemed place in the commun
ity through her work in establish
ing Mlnfield Home for children. She
operated the home herself for 16
years until last November 9, when
she retired and sold it to Mr.
and Mrs. Peter J. Nickel of Auk
Bay.
Coming to Alaska about 30 years
ago, Miss Field was employed as
matron at the federal jail under
four different marshals — Tanner,
Beaumont, White, and the late Wil
liam Mahooney. She started her
children's home project even before
leaving the federal service, and
earned for herself the name,
“Alaska’s greatest mother.”
Only known relative surviving is
a sister; Mrs. William Reid of
Vancouver, B. C., and funeral ar
| rangements will be announced later
pending word from Mrs. Reid.
SOME WEATHER HIT
JUNEAU AT WEEKEND
The weekend weather in Juneau
was wet.
The rain came down and how.
And the downtown streets were
miniature rivers and if one crossed
them they found Franklin and Se
ward streets ankle deep and Main
Street about that too.
And talking about washing sand
from the ice. No autos, private or
taxis were operating to the hill
sections until late in the afternoon
when ruts had been made in the
street ice. Church attendance was
cut 25 per cent, it is said. The
streets were glare ice and walking
was impossible except in the snow
heaped on the sidewalks, and that
disappeared rapidly under the rain.
Bert Lybeck said this morning
that it “looked like the tide had
gone out and left Juneau on a sand
bar.” City trucks were out early
covering slippery sidewalks with
sand which remained when the rain
eased up.
FROM MT. EDGECT'MBE
Helen Puljn of Mt. Edgecumbe
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
SMASHING
MIDWEST
BUZZARD
Highways Blocked, Planes
Grounded, Trains Stall
ed by Snowdrifts
By Associated Press
The Northern Middlewest was
hanging on the ropes again today,
virtually knocked out by another
smashing blizzard.
From the appearance of many
snow-blocked sections and the hard
ship of its victims, winter Is still
more like a lusty young arrival
than a feeble, dying season.
Throughout the area many high
ways were blocked, planes were
grounded and even some trains were
stalled by mountainous snow drifts.
Although the fury of the storm
was not as widespread as the two
earlier blizzards that already had hit
the region this month, it was more
Intense in spots. In Southern Min
nesota, Southeastern South Dakota
and Northern Iowa, highway traffic
was blocked in many places. Trains
stalled In Northern Iowa.
The storm left as much as 19
inches of new snow in the area.
I Winds up to 45 miles an hour
j whipped it into deep drifts.
The storm began Saturday and
continued through most of Sunday.
It marooned scores of families in
| Western Minnesota.
At St. Paul and Minneapolis,
where the snowfall measured near
ly 10 inches, airlines cancelled most
of their flights. Bus lines had re
sumed some operations from there
| today, but secondary highways still
were blocked.
A Northwest Airlines plane ar
riving from Portland. Ore., with 17
passengers and crewmen bogged
| down in a snowdrift on Wold Cham
berlain Field here. But all the per
( sons escaped injury.
9 FREEZE j
i TO DEATH,
BLIZZARD
—
I EDMONTON, Alta,, March 19 —(jB
I —Nine persons were known dead
: and one was still missing today as
! the prairie provinces began digging
j themselves out following one of the
| wildest March blizzards on record,
i The storm, completely spent, had
lashed the western prairies with
j hurricanelike winds and snow for
| two days, paralyzing traffic and [
l snarling communications.
Winds with gusts reaching 80 j
J miles an hour swept Calgary during 1
; the height of the storm.
Still missing was a 70-year-old I
; farmer south of Saskatoon, Sask. i
Search parties were hampered by j
I snow drifts as deep as 12 feet.
Thirty-eight persons aboard a
| Calgary-bound train which became
snowbound Friday near Oyen, Alta.,
were rescued late Sunday.
The intensity of the storm was
indicated by the death of 14-year
old Armand Lassauntier who be
came lost in the backyard of his
parents ’farmhouse near Cadillac,
Sask., Friday night. The boy went
out to empty a pail and did not re
turn. His frozen body was found
Sunday.
Six persons died in Alberta and
three in Saskatchewan. Nearly all
froze to death.
I _
SENATOR LYNOWILL
TALK TUESDAY ON
REORGANIZATION
j Senator Howard Lyng (Democrat
i of Nome) will speak over KINY to.
| morrow, Tuesday, night, March 20,
at 9 o’clock on House Bill 141, the
"Reorganissation Act," he announced
today.
___ . . ---
JERRY NOONAN HERE
j Jerry Noonan of Anchorage, with
the Morrison-Knudson Construction
! Co. of Seattle, arrive yesterday
from Seattle and is . stopping at
j the Baranof Hotel.
1 i
ROK FORCES
SWIM RIVER
FOR ATTACK
Central Front Drive Also
Made by U. S. Eighth
Army-Jets in Action
By Associated Press
South Korean troops swam the
chilly Hongchon River in Central
Korea today in pursuit of Com
munist forces pulling back toward
the 38th Parallel.
The Republic of Korea (ROK)
soldiers were spearheading the Cen
tral front drive of the U. S. Eighth
Army which has set up strong
forces In a holding line only 17
miles south of the politically sensi
tive parallel.
“There was no stopping those
ROK troops,” said a military
spokesman. “They swam the cold
river rather than wait for boats to
ferry them across in the northward
drive.
“They were just a lot of eager
beavers.”
Battalion Annihilated
The same ROK troops trapped
and annihilated a Chinese Com
munist battalion Sunday.
American liaison officers with the
South Koreans counted 231 dead
Chinese after the battle.
The ROKs captured a battery of
75-mm. Howitzers, several mortars
and rifles, and large quantities of
ammunition.
It was the first action of any
size along the Korean front in 83
hours.
V. 8. Jets Busy
U. S. jet pilots Monday killed or
wounded 300 of 1,500 Reds concen
trated in the village of Kapyong,
32 miles northeast of Seoul.
On the Eastern front, Allied pa
trols probing within a few miles of
the 38th Parallel moved northward
against Red small arms and mortar
fire. '
The Army broke a three-day si
lence to announce that holding ele
ments were 17 miles from the par
allel at five undisclosed points and
patrols were probing "miles north”
of these points and in all other
sectors.
38th Parallel Issue
Should the UN try to cross the
38th Parallel in force once more?
The question is a knotty one for
the UN. Britain is urging cautious
consideration with the hope of
achieving a peace. UN Secretary
General Trygve Lie thinks that it
may be possible to get a cease-fire
now without linking it to Red Chi
na’s demands for admission to the
UN or surrender of Formosa. The
UN victories in the field may
strengthen its hand in any nego
tiations.
The Chinese Reds appear to have
given up Chunchon, their last main
military base south of the 38th
Parallel, and well-prepared defenses
along the Hongchon River south of
Chunchon.
Sailor Was
On Alerl
And How
HONOLULU, March 19 —tfl—
Sailor Edward C. Burt, Jr., of Hib
blng, Minn., thought he found a
Communist on a Waikiki street in
the early morning hours. The man,
in civilian clothes, was asking a
group of sailors if they were happy,
and advising them to "join my
group.”
Burt recalled the Navy program:
"Be alert for anyone running down
the Navy or trying to get service
men into a subversive group.”
He slapped the man, dumped him
into a taxi and pulled him off to
a police station.
The man identified himself as
MaJ. Oen. David M. Schlatter, com
manding general of the U. S. Air
Force Research and Development
section. He was enroute to Washing
ton from Korea.
General Schlatter declined to
press charges. Burt was released
with a Navy "commendation for his
motive but a reprimand for his
course of action."