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1 P.M. Edition
THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE l™
SATURDAY
. Edition
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
•> VOL. LXXV., NO. 11.57.3
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1950
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Korean Reds Making Double-barreled Drive
HARRIMAN
IS BOUND
FOR TOKYO
• Truman's Special Assist
ant, Military Men Off
• to See MacArthur
TACOMA, Aug. 5——W. Averell
Harriman, President Truman’s spe
cial assistant on foreign affairs, and
five high ranking military men
were headed for Tokyo today by
4 plane, via the Alaska route.
The party made a brief refueling
. stop late yesterday at nearby Mc
Chord Air Force base after taking
4 off from Washington, D.C., earlier
in the day.
Harriman will confer with Gen
eral MacArthur. He and Lt. Gen.
Lauris Norstad, Air Force Vice Chief
of Staff, are scheduled to return
to the national capital next Wed
nesday.
They are traveling with other of*
fleers, in Air Force Gen. Hoyt Van
denberg’s personal Constellation
. plane.
Harriman said he will discuss po
litical affairs with MacArthur. Air
Force officers with him are expected
to confer with military authorities
in Japan, presumably in connection
with the Korean war.
PAA CLIPPERS TAKE
81 PASSENGERS
Pan American World Airways
• brought 35 passengers here yester
day, and carried 46 southbound.
Arriving from Seattle were Beth
Ogden, with Judy and Robert; Vir
ginia Shattuck. the Rev. Edgar
Gallant, P. J. Webster and 29 Nakat
Packing Corporation employees go
ing to Noyes Island.
, Outbound, Conrad Peterson and
N. Blyberg went to Annette; N. B.
MacDonald and Larry E. Baldwin
were booked to Ketchikan.
p These passengers went to Seattle:
Katherine Wise, Pearl Berg, J. An
derson, Minnie Brod, Earling Into
lubbe, Rosina Overholtzer, Juanita
Ebert and infant Mike; Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Glover, Harry Moric,
Juanita Stephens with Katherine;
Frank Sacchi, James Burnell,
* Keith Roberts and 26 passengers
who arrived via Pacific Northern
from the westward.
FROM GREfc,;»TOP
B. F. Thompson of Greentop, Al
aska, is a guest at the Baranof
Hotel.
CONRAD RETURNS
T. Conrad has returned from a
* trip to Hawk Island and again is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
rhe Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Bv DREW PEARSON
(Coprrlcht, IBM. BJ B«U 8jBdl«atc. too )
rrASHINGTON — The more en
lightened half of the Pearson
household took a dim view of a
recent column in which I thought
I was urging support for President
Truman in the Korean war but
compared his qualities of leadership
somewhat unfavorably with those
of FDR.
“It doesn’t make any difference,"
said Mrs. P., “what Mr. Truman’s
* voice is like or whether he is good
on the radio. You shouldn’t be
too personal. And you shouldn’t be
too tough on him in comparing
» him to FDR."
Maybe Mrs. P. has a point there.
At any rate the main thing I want
to emphasize in urging more na
tional unity is that people usually
fail to understand that world wars
really begin far in advance of the
actual conflagration, and a Pres
ident who has the courage to nip
a war in the bud early sometimes
is able to head off a major world
war later.
* I also think that President Tru
man acted with a lot of courage
in not ducking a showdown on
Korea—despite the critics who now
say “I told you so" when things go
wrong. ,
Whether he was wise or whether
» General MarArthur was too con
fidant in his advance “guarantee of
(Continued on Page Four)
FIFTH DAY BRINGS
WEATHER BREAK
FOR TRIP TO C-54
-■
10th Rescue Commander
Makes Flight-Balchen,
Thomas fo Ice Cap
—
"Practically clear" weather in the
Fairweather Range this morning
gave hope that a 10th Air Rescue
Squadron flight could succeed to
day in reaching the scene of the
crashed Air Force C-54, which was
sighted late Monday.
Pilots and other 10th Rescue ex
perts have maintained readiness for
four days, during which they have
been weather-bound except for one
attempt on which they had to
turn back from Cape Spencer.
The rescue party went to the Ju
neau airport at 11 a.m, today,
hoping to leave immediately for
the Mount Crillon mountain mass
"where the wreckage was seen.
The flight was to be in a B-17
brought in late yesterday by Maj.
Robert A. Ackerly, temporary com
manding officer of the 10th Rescue
Squadron, with Lt. Lloyd L. Casfo
as co-pilot.
This first mission was lr be a
reconnaissance operation, partly to
determine the feasibility of a land
ing on Brady Glacier, from which
to base a trail crew.
Accompanying the Air Force party
was Maynard M. Miller, field direc
tor of the Juneau Icefield Research
Project (JIRP), who explored the
Fairweather area on the Brady Ice
field expedition in 1940, and helped
chart the mountainous region.
About the same time today, the
ski-equipped 10th Rescue C-47 was
to take off for the Juneau Ice Cap,
where the twin-engine craft was to
make a glacier landing.
Besides personnel and supplies
for JIRP bases, two notable were
aboard—Col. Bernt Balchen, for
mer 10th Rescue commander and
now special Arctic assistant to the
Alaskan Air Command, and Lowell
Thomas, global explorer and news
commentator.
Thomas and his cameraman,
John Roberts, expect to stay several
days on the Ice Cap, observing
JIRP operations, which include the
drilling of a “laboratory” into the
ice. Already, a 70-foot hole has
been drilled.
Flying the ski-plane are Capt. F.
Sparrvohen, pilot, and Lt. Victor
Rudd, Jr„ co-pilot.
Dr. Willard Nicholl, JIRP med
ical officer, who was on the Ice
Cap earlier in the summer, was to
return with the party today.
At 11 a.m. today, the U. S.
Weather Bureau reported “practic
ally clear” weather in the Mount
Crillon area. There was a fairly
low ceiling over the Ice Cap, “but
clearing enough so that the oper
ation probably could be accom
plished.”
—
ARCHIE SHIELS, PAF
EXECUTIVE, HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Archie W. Shiels
of Bellingham, Wash., are in Ju
neau “for our annual vacation,”
they say, but those who know Mr.
Shiels know he is here on business.
Chairman of the executive com
mittee of the Pacific American
Fisheries , Mr. Shiels is here in
connection with the affairs of his
companv.
In addition to its canneries at
Petersburg and Kasaan, PAF will
operate the floating cannery Neva
in Excursion Inlet this year. The
Neva is completing a satisfactory
first season in Prince William
Sound this week and is due to ar
rive for the SE Alaska season next
week. Aboard the Neva a two-lihe
cannery is operated and the ship
is equipped for quick freezing. G.
Erwin Hube, formerly superintend
ent for Dan Campbell at Excursion
Inlet, is operating the Neva for
PAF.
Other PAF operations in the
Prince William Sound area are at
King Cove and Squaw Harbor.
The Bristol Bay canneries at
Naknek and Nushagak ended the
season with packs that “while not
good, were better than we had ex
pected this year,” Mr. Shiels said.
Stanley Tarrant, vice president
in charge of operations for PAF,
will spend the remainder of the
salmon canning season in this area.
Mr. and Mrs. Shiels, who consider
Juneau their second home, and Mr.
Tarrant will be at the Baranof
Hotel for the rest of the month.
SAILINGS
TO ALASKA
RESUMED
' _
SEATTLE, Aug. 5 — Ijfl — The
steamship Baranof, with a full
crew of security-screened stewards
aboard, sailed for Alaska this morn
ing.
The Alaska Steamship Company
vessel sailed under the same agree
ment which allowed her sister ship
the Alaska, to depart yesterday
after a 24-hour delay.
The stewards, members of the
Marine Cooks and Stewards’ Union
(CIOi, had objected to procedure
for screening out bad security risks.
A temporary agreement was reached
yesterday in lengthy meetings be
tween union and company officials
for a security check by the Coast
Guard. The check is required un
der the National Maritime Secur
ity Act.
TRAVELERS FROM
HAWAII MAKING
EXTENSIVE TRIP
It was their presence in Min
l nesota for the recent marriage of
I their son, John Troup Moir III,
that started Mr. and Mrs. Moir, of
Lauaina, Maui, T. H., on a trip
through Alaska.
They were at Taku Lodge Friday
after a trip north over the Alcan
Highway. Their route? By plane
to Edmonton, by train from Ed
monton to Dawson Creek, by bus
to Whitehorse and over the White
Pass by train, and plane to Juneau.
Already they have covered a lbt
of the north, but this is Just the
beginning. After their return from
Taku, they will fly to Skagway,
make the Taku Arm lake trip from
Carcross. From Whitehorse they
will make the round trip by river
boat to Dawson, then to Fairbanks.
Here they will take Wein Airways
for the Kotzebue trip, return to
Fairbanks, to Mt. McKinley Park,
Anchorage, south by boat to Ket
chikan, then Pan American plane
to Seattle.
While the fact that they are
making such an extensive trip of
the Territory is interesting, to Al
lskans, the Moirs of Hawaii are
.hemselves of greater interest.
Mr. Moir, whose father went to
he Islands from Scotland in 1888,
was born in the Islands, grew up
on the sugar plantations managed
by his father. He was graduated
from Cornell University where he
met Miss Gertrude Mae Fisher, and
they were married in 1916.
Their life on Maui sounds idyllic
—but plenty busy. Except for the
tragedy of World War II, Mts.
Moir found the war years an in
teresting time. Her husband was
commanding officer of the Maui
volunteers and was in charge of
civilian defense on their Island.
Mrs. Moir was head of the Am
erican Red Cross, spent part of a
year in California where she re
ceived her degree in education while
she was giving first aid courses
for the Red Cross, earned her
master's degree at the University
of Hawaii for her thesis on Stand
ardized Courses for Red Cross First
Aid—the result of her courses given
at Stanford University, Menlo, Mills,
Uni- ersity of California and the
University of Hawaii.
Visitors in Hawaii wonder how
any resident could ever leave the
island territory, but Moirs have
found time to travel all over the
world. It was while on a seven
months trip to South America a
year ago with her daughter that
Babs Moir met George Gros Mason,
traffic manager for South America
for Pan American Grace Airways,
and theft wedding last winter filled
newspaper columns from New York
to Honolulu. The Masons now ll’ve
in Lima, Peru, probably Mrs. Moir’s
destination on her next trip away
from home.
The Moirs are interesting and
interested travelers. The problems
of their own territory and the prob
lems of Alaska have much in com
mon, as they say, have the native
peoples and artifacts of Alaska and
Hawaii.
FROM MT. EDGECUMBE
Several Mt. Edgecumbe residents
are newly registered at the Baranof
Hotel. They are Betty Ross, Mrs.
| Geraldine Miles and Lowell Far
| quhar.
GROUNDWORK FOR
WEST-END SEWER
JOB IS COMPLETED
All preparatory work on the
;ewer project for West Seventh,
2ighth and Ninth Streets was com
peted, as far as the city is con
cerned, at the regular meeting of
he City Council last night.
At that time the council passed
i resolution authorizing the mayor
o execute an agreement with the
branch of the Interior Department
in charge of projects carried out
under the provisions of the Public
Works Bill for Alaska.
The agreement requires the city
0 pay 50 percent of the cost of
the project and to take over the
sewer and its maintenance when
the job is completed.
Although the action was only a
i legal technicality, it was the green
light which will start work on a
long-desired improvement for the
west end of the city.
Low bid on the job was submitted
by the Hayes and Whitely Com
pany of Juneau which offered to
construct the system for $19,786.
The bids were opened July 26.
The job will probably be com
pleted in November, according to
John Argetsinger, district engineer
in charge of Public Works for Al
aska.
No Concrete Pipe
The city council also passed a
motion authorizing the payment of
$200 above the low bid, which.
Mayor Waino Hendrickson pointed
out would be the cost of laying
vitrified pipe—baked clay—instead
of concrete pipe.
City Engineer J. L. McNamara
said that vitrified pipe would last
longer than concrete, according to
Mayor Hendrickson. Councilman
j James Larsen, who is in the con
] trading business, agreed with Cne
I city engineer.
The council passed a motion pro
| viding for increases »u the salaries
| of the firetruck drivers, who act
1 as City Hall janitors when not driv
! ing.
The chief driver's salary was in
i creased from $270 per month to
$300; the assistant driver’s from
$255 to $275.
The fire department was also
i authorized to purchase $650 worth
! of turnout suits for new members.
I These will be purchased from the
| agent for Globe equipment, it was
i indicated.
Acting on the recommendation
1 of an equipment salesman, the
j council took action to purchase a
snow-removing machine capable of
loading snow into trucks much
faster than the present equipment.
The salesman pointed out to the
council that the international situ
ation has already had an effect on
the price of machinery and the city
should move fast to take advantage
of present low prices on the piece
of equipment they want, a conveyor
belt loader for putting snow On
trucks.
The council authorized the street
and finance committees to study
the two types of machine recom
mended and to purchase the one
they believed most suited to the
city’s need.
Tax Questions Heard
Several sales tax questions were
brought before the council and dis
posed of. One dealt with the rule
concerning sales within the city
limits to persons residing outside
the city.
The council decided that all retail
sales for delivery within and with
out the city are taxable.
Another question concerned tax
on the sale of fish. The council
decided that the sale of fish to
restaurants would not be taxed,
since the restaurant was not the
consumer.
Reporting forms for all who col
lect the one-percent tax under the
city’s new sales tax ordinance are
j now available at the city clerk’s
| office in the City Hall, C. L. Pope
| joy, city clerk announced.
STUMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise from Vancouver
1 due at 3:15 this afternoon, sailing
| for Skagway at 11:30.
Alaska from Seattle scheduled to
arrive Monday.
Baranof from Seattle scheduled
to arrive Tuesday.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
sail from Vancouver tonight.
Prince George scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Tuesday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Wednesday.
Aleutian from westward scheduled
southbound 7 p.m. Sunday.
Blowing Its Top
Closeup aitview shows lava and rising steam on peak of Mount Pavlof. 8,900-foot volcanic mountain on
Alaska Peninsula 500 miles west or Anchorage, shortly after it started erupting. This is the first erup
i tion since 1937. Iff) Wirephoto.
EXPLOSIONS
HEARD NEAR
BIG DIOMEDE
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 5—
ijfI—Recent unexplained explosions
on or near Russian-owned Big Dio
mede Island in the Bering Strait
were reported here today.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morgan, of
Anchorage, returned yesterday with
the report from Little Diomede Is
land, owned by the United States
and only three miles from the Soviet
Far East island outpost.
The Morgans said that severa
times during a four-month stay or
Little Diomede they heard louc
noises at sea. They believed thi
noises may have been from a sur
vey ship taking soundings or from
the Siberian mainland. Fog pre
vented them from locating the
sources.
The Morgans expressed doubt that
the Russians are bolstering Big
Diomede as Eskimos reported that
only one Soviet plane was one the
island last winter.
The natives also reported that
the Russian Island was strangely
inactive, Morgan said. Last spring,
tourists said the island was being
evacuated of its residents as the
Russians prepared to construct a
large base on Big Diomede. No large
construction is evident there, Mor
gan said.
(UTTER AIDS DISABLED
MOTOR BARGE (UDA
The Coast Guard cutter Cahoone
yesterday went to the aid of the
motor barge Cuda, reported in dis
tress off Slate Island, 30 miles
southeast of Ketchikan.
The vessel was found to have
been disabled by engine failure and 1
its fuel tank was leaking into the
engine room. It was towed to
Ketchikan by the cutter Cahoone
according to word reaching Coas'
Guard headquarters here.
The message regarding the Cuda’s
trouble was passed to the Coast
j Guard by Fish and Wildlife Service
t agents in the Slate Island area.
IMMIGRATION 0 CE
CLOSED UNTIL SEPT.
The Immigration and Naturaliza
tion Service office in the McKinley
Building will be closed until mid
September. according to John
Brantner, officer in charge.
Brantner, his wife and two child
ren were scheduled to leave by, air
today for South Dakota where they
will visit Mrs. Brantner’s parents.
During Brantner’s vacation, in
tormation on immigration and nat
uralization may be obtained through
the U.S. Customs Office in the Fed
eral Building here, or through the
office of the Immigration and Nat
uralization Service in Ketchikan.
I
$50,000 Libel
Suit Dissolved
At Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 5—UP!
—A technicality dissolved a $50,000
libel suit against the Fairbanks
'tews-Miner’s owner, the Tatiana
Publishing Co., yesterday.
District court judge Harry E.
’ratt dismissed the suit, which had
>een brought by Golden North Air
vays, Inc.
Motion for dismissal was brought
■y Maurice T. Johnson, publishing
ompany counsel, on the technical
round that plaintiff had failed to
liege in the complaint that it had
lied its last annual corporation re
port to the Territory, and had
failed to allege it paid its last cor
poration tax.
Warren A. Taylor, representing'
the airline, argued that new federal |
rules do not provide specifically for j
filing of such allegations.
Judge Pratt held that federal |
rules do not repeal any territorial
statutes, and that filing of such in
formation is mandatory under ter
ritorial law.
Taylor said an amended suit will
be filed.
Th\! complaint was aimed at an
editorial printed in the News-Miner
which dealt with operation of non
cheduled air carriers in Alaska.
The editorial had appeared in The
Daily Alaska Empire, published in
Juneau, and was reprinted later in
the Fairbanks paper.
HOSPITAL NOTES
i
No one was admitted to St. Ann’s
lospital yesterday. Mrs. John
linchman, Dorothy Riley and Mrs.
Gerald Allen and her infant son
jvere dismissed.
Francine Jackson of Hoonah was
idmitted to the Government Hos
>ital.
WEATHER REPORT •
•
In Juneau—Maximum, 52; •
minimum, 45. •
At Airport—Maximum, 53; •
minimum, 41. •
•
FORECAST •
(Juneau and Vicinity) •
Variable cloudiness tonight •
and Sunday. Little change in •
temperature. Lowest temper- •
ature tonight 48, highest • '
day 62. • 1
•
PRECIPITATION • I
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. todar • j
City of Juneau—0.12 inches; • |
since August 1—1.14 inches; •
since July 1—11.07 inches. •
At Airport — 0.08 inches; • I
since August 1—0.82 inches; • |
since July 1—7.86 inches. •
1
ACE DERBY DRIVER
JERRY TAYLOR TO
LEAVE TOMORROW
Gerald (Jerry) Taylor, 12-year
old ace of Juneau’s soap box derby
drivers, is excited—the big trip be
gins tomorrow.
He will board a Pan American
World Airways plane tomorrow af
ternoon on the first stage of his
journey to the National Soap Box
Derby to be held in Akron, O.,
August 13.
The “Blue Bantam” racer, which
carried Jerry over the finish line a
short distance ahead of Jack Rhode’s
"Knodemascer” for the local cham
pionship July 23, is already in Ak
ron, awaiting Jerry’s arrival.
The “Blue Bantam" will carry
the colors of The Daily Alaska Em
pire in the national coasting classic.
Jerry will be accompanied on the
trip by Milt Daniels, representative
of the Juneau Rotary Club, ohe of
the sponsors of the local derby.
Daniels said that on-the-spot
stories from Akron will be sent to
The Empire telling of the success of
Jerry and the "Blue Bantam"
against the nation’s best drivers.
Jerry has a perfect racing record
so far. He won the five races he
entered here in the first derby car
he ever built and raced.
But the big test is yet to come—
he will face stiff competition in pre
liminary heats during the national
classic before getting a chance at
the national championship.
Jerry is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
George Taylor of Juneau.
CRUISER JUNEAU
CONVOYS TANKER,
FORMOSA SEAPORT
TAIPEI, Formosa, Aug. 5 — Iffl —
The U. S. Navy tanker Cimarron
arrived at the Formosan port of
Keelung today, under escort of
three American warships, bringing
a full load of fuel for planes guard
ing against a Communist invasion
of Formosa.
There was much speculation as
to whether the gasoline was in
tended for American or Chines'fe
Nationalist war planes. General
MacArthur said he would supply
fuel for both. Six American Jet
fighters arrived yesterday.
The cruiser Juneau arrived at |
Keelung with the Cimarron and
anchored in the harbor. Two US
destroyers stood guard outside.
• While the Cimarron began un
loading, work went ahead on ex
tending airfields on this Nationalist j
island for use by American war i
planes.
—
FROM HOOD BAY
Mr. and Mrs. A1 De Asis of Hood
Bay are staying at the Baranof
Hotel.
FROM TODD
A. R. Wolf of Todd, Alaska, Is
a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
DESPERATE
MOVE MADE,
RED FORCES
Fresh Masses of Men Are
Jammed Against Posi
tions of Americans
By DON MllTH
TOKYO, Sunday, Aug. 6—(AS—
Moving desperately by duylight, the
Red Invaders of South Korea maiTe
an unopposed crossing of the Nak
tong river in the northern sector
Saturday and jammed fresh masses
of men against American positions
in the center and south.
A Korean release by Oeneral Mac
Arthur’s Tokyo headquarters at
12:50 a m. Sunday (6:50 a.m., Satur
day, PST) said limited counterat
tacks and patrol actions by U.S. and
South Korean troops throughout
the entire defense areas Saturday
night kept the enemy "off balance.”
However, the release said, "the
enemy has continued to shuttle
troops and materiel during the day
light hours, thereby providing ex
cellent targets for artillery and air
craft.
"This indicates that the Reds are
desperately striving for a main ef
fort and an all-out attempt to
break through the new defense
lines.”
Heavy Losses by Invaders
The release also reported heavy
losses by the North Korean Invaders
in repeated assaults in the Chinju
sector near the southern Up of the
line. Field dispatches and briefing
officers said these occurred Friday
and Friday jjiitUL ... ...
Field dispatches dealared that
Saturday the enemy in'undisclosed
numbers had crossed the upper
northern reaches of the Naktong in
the rain without opposition.
This was In a sector where South
Korean defense forces made a plan
ned withdrawal to a prearranged
ridge and mountain pass line. 1)
was east and southeast of Sangju,
in the northwest corner of the Ko
rean defense box.
Wo Threat, Claim
A dispatch from Eighth Army
Headquarters In Korea said this
crossing was not considered an im
mediate material threat. If a buildup
continued there, however, it could
develop into a threat to the Ameri
can right and South Korean left
flanks.
MacArthur’s release and all front
reports pointed to an imminent
double-barreled drive by the Reds
in the south and central sectors.
MacArthur’s headquarters specu
lated that the main Red effort
might come in the south, in an ef
fort to slash the Pusan-Taegu com
munications lines of the defenders.
The crossing posed a third major
threat to Allied defense forces. The
Korean Reds were reported to have
three divisions massed for a strike
across the Naktong near Waegwan,
south of Sangju and only 15 miles
from the U.8. Central Communica
tions center of Taegu.
Reds Are Massine
Far to the south, the Reds were
massing lour crack divisions east ol
Chinju for the drive on Pusan, U.S.
supply port only 35 miles away.
In the central sector American
planes blasted a large enemy
armored force one-half mile west
of the Naktong. Associated Press
Correspondent Leif Erickson said
the U.S. planes knocked out four
or five; tanks moving northeast to
ward Waegwan and pounded Red
artillery, trucks and troops.
American artillery also hurled
shells into the convoy.
For the past few days the North
Koreans had concealed their move
ments. Now they are coming into
the open.
General MacArthur's headquarters
reported the sinking Friday of a
10,000-ton North Korean transport
at Inchon, the port of Seoul.
B-29’s lashed Seoul for the second
straight day, leaving the railroad
yards flaming and shrouded in
smoke. The medium bombers plast
ered the rail center with 100 tons
of bombs, 20 tons more than were
dropped Friday.
FISH LANDINGS
The packer Wanderer landed 10,
000 pounds of troll-caught salmon
at the Juneau Cold Storage Com
pany wharf here today. The troll
ing boat Rainbow, skipper Fred
McGllton, landed 1.400 pounds of
salmon.