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VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,596
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1950
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REDS MAKE DESPERATE FINAL SMASH
ANDERSON
SUSPENDED
FORVIEWS
Commandant Air War Col
lege Let Out for Advocat
ing "Preventive War"
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1— UP) —
Maj. Gen. Orvil A. Anderson, who
has argued for a “preventive” war j
against Russia, was suspended to
day as commandant of the Air War
College at Maxwell Field, Ala.
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air
Force Chief of Staff, said Air Force
men at all levels must understand
ttiat the Air Force is a force for
maintaining peace and deterring
war.
It was the second time within a
week that there has been a rebuke
to a high figure for talking of a
“preventive war.”
On last Friday, Secretary of the
Navy Matthews made a speech
suggesting a “preventive” war for
peace if necessary. The State De
partment and the White House dis
avowed his views as administration
policy.
Earlier, an Air Force spokesman
acknowledged that Anderson and
others at the Air War College had
discussed arguments for and against
a preventive war.
Anderson was quoted by the
Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser in a
copyrighted story as saying:
“Give me the order to do it and I
can break up Russia’s five A-bomb
nests in a week. And when I went
up to Christ. . .1 think I could ex
plain to him that I had saved civil
ization.”
The copyrighted interview iur
ther quoted the Air War College
commandant as saying that “to as
sume that Russia won’t use their
A-bomb if we sit by and watch
them build them is a dangerous
assumption.”
Further, Columnist Drew Pear
son asserted that Anderson has
advocated a preventive war.
Caught Short!
Not If You Shop Early
For Holiday Weekend
Saturday dinner.
Three meals Sunday.
Three meals Monday.
Breakfast Tuesday.
Snacks, too.
Juneau housewives do not need a
slide rule or an abacus to count
the family feedings between store
closing hours tomorrow and reop
ening Tuesday.
However, it’s easy to forget in the
excitement of planning for the La
bor Day week-end.
Store proprietors urge early shop
ping and ordering, for the most ef
ficient service.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Copyright, 1850, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
'Cony By DREW PEARSON
Washington—Here is a play-1
by-play account of what went on
behind-the-scenes in the now his
toric rebuke of General MacArthur
by President Truman.
First inkling that MacArthur had
sent a message to the Veterans ot
Foreign Wars on the delicate ques
tion of Formosa came on Thursday
Aug. 24, when Carlton Kent of the
Chicago Sun-Times queried Roger
Tubby State Department press re
lations office, as to whe.her the
MacArthur statement had been
cleared by the State Department ,
Tubby passed the query on to
the White House and the Defense
Department, found that neit el * j
either seen or heard of the Mac
Arthur statement. It had bee
sent direct to newspapers in a
personal letter on Aug. 21 with a
release date for Aug. 28. This was
in direct violation of the White
House directive laid down during
the famous Henry Wallace-Jimmie
Byrnes row, after which it was
decreed that no statement on for
eign policy could be published bj
any official without clearance.
President Truman himseld did
not see the MacArthur statement
until Saturday, Aug. 20, dur.ng a
conference scheduled to hear he
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Like a Trick Cigar
» wsx; vy, • -:: 'i*eam wmem
This North Korean tank, its gun shattcerd like a trick cigar, was
knocked out by the bazooka held by Pfc. Frank Schiarone (fore
ground) of Mullica Hill, N. J., somewhere in Korea. U. S. Army
photo via :fl>) Wircpholo.
Legion Convention
Delegates Will Be
On Scene Tomorrow
BIDS FOR
STATEHOOD
TO TRUMAN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1— Ufl —
Bids of Hawaii and Alaska for
statehood will be carried to Presi
dent Truman at the White House
Sept. 6.
Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska) said
today he and Delegate Farrington
(R-Hawaii) have arranged the con
ference with the President to “urge
him to intercede once more with
the Senate so that the statehood
bills may be taken up.”
At a news conference yesterday
Mr. Truman spoke of the need for
statehood for the territories as a
part of the National Defense Pro
gram.
Farrington and Bartlett both ex
pressed the opinion that there would
be no long debate if the bills can be
brought up for consideration in the
Spn<it6
Bartlett added: “Polls show a clear
majority for both bills and they
would be easily passed if brought
up.”
The House has passed both bills.
PIONEER WOMEN'S
HOME TO OPEN AT
SITKA OCTOBER 1
The Alaska Pioneer Women’s
Home at Sitka will be formally
opened on October 1, 1950.
Applications for admission may
be presented either to W. W.
Knight, Superintendent, at Sitka,
or to Henry Roden, Chairman oi
the Board of Trustees, Alaska
Pioneers’ House.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Alaska from Seattle is scheduled
to arrive Sunday.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle 6 pm. Monday.
Princess Louise may sail from
Vancouver Saturday night. Marine
strike not settled.
Aleutian from west scheduled
southbound at 9 p.m. Sunday.
OMAIf* VISITOR
Victor K. Levine of Omaha, Neb.,
is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
Delegates from all parts of Al
aska are heading for Juneau today
to attend the five day annual Ter
ritorial convention of the American
Legion which opens here tomorrow
Legion posts from points as far
away as Adak and Nome will be
represented in the convention which
will elect new Department officers
for the next year and act on sev
eral other important matters.
Other posts, which will be repre
sented, include Anchorage, Valdez
Ketchikan, Juneau, Seward, Wran
gell, Skagway, Cordova, FairbanKS
Haines, Sitka, Petersburg, Palmer.
Homer, Kodiak and Toe Junction
Chugach Pest at Anchorage anc
two all-women’s posts will also be
, among those at the convention
These are the Aurora Borealis Post
of Anchorage and the North Stai
Post of Fairbanks.
In addition to the Legion con
vention, simultaneous meetings wil'
be held here by the American Le
gion Ladies Auxiliary and La Soc
iete des Quarante Hommes et Huit
Chevaux. La Societe, better known
as the 40 and 8, is the fun making
and honor organization of the Le
gion. Both of these groups will
also elect department officers and
transact other business.
Highlight of the 40 and 8 Grande
Promenade, as the meeting is
called, will be the Grand Wreck or,
Monday when new members arc
initiated into the organization.
Registration for members of all
organizations will be held in thf
lobby of the Baranof Hotel all day
tomorrow.
ALASKA TREASURY
TO GET NEW FUNDS;
TRUMAN SIGNS BILL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 — (iW —
President Truman has signed a bill
to authorize the • Interior Depart
ment to sell all materials taken
from school lands in Alaska and
to put the proceeds in the Territor
ial treasury.
The income from these materials
would go for school purposes.
Under a law already on the books,
I the department was authorized to
sell timber and dispose of minerals
from the school lands.
The bill signed today extends that
authority to cover revenue from
all materials, including gravel and
peat moss.
It also includes a provision al
I lowing the department to dispose
of sand and grAel from the beds
of navigable streams and to ear
mark the proceeds for Alaskan
schools.
CONTROL BILL
TO BE PASSED
BY CONGRESS
Compromise Legislation
Giving Truman Broad
Powers Hits No Snags
WASHINGTON, Sept. I — —
The House gave quick approval to
day !o compromise legislation hand- i
mg President Truman broad pow
ers to control the domestic econ
omy and curb war-born inflation. ,
There was no roll call on passage,;
only a shout of ayes. Before tlw.fc j
vote, a motion to send the bill
back to committee was defeated 153 j
to 20 on a standing vote.
The House action sent the billj
on to the Senate where leaders;
aimed to get it to President Tru- i
man before nightfall.
A direct result of the Korean;
lighting, the home-front mobiliza
tion measure would permit wage j
and price controls, consumer ra-;
Honing, penalties for hoarding, and;
real estate and consumer credit1
controls.
To spur defense production, it j
also provides for allocation of
scarce industrial materials, prior
ities for defense orders, government
loans and loan-guarantees and the
requisitioning of plants and equip- :
ment.
A compromise between separate j
bills passed by the Senate and the ;
House, it was whipped into final
shape late yesterday by a confer- j
ence committee of the two branch- ■
es.
The agreement was reached just
about six weeks after Mr Truma'„
asked Congress on July 19 for pow
er to combat inflation and speed
production for an expanded mil
BILL TO WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Sept. I— (if) —
Congress sent to the White House
today a bill giving President Truman
broad powers to control prices, wag
es, credit and strategic materials.
Both the Senate and House passed
the compromise measure on voice
votes. The House acted first.
President Truman is expected to
approve the bill speedily, but not be
fore his fireside chat to the nation
tonight on the Korean war situa
tion emergency.
WANTS LIQUOR BAN
ON INDIANS TO BE
LIFTED; ASKS REPEAL
BELLINGHAM, Wash. Sept. 1—Iff)
—The National Congress of Ameri
can Indians has asked for repeal
of the ban on sale of liquor to In
dians.
It was one of the resolutions ad
opted at the closing session of the
convention here.
The Congress opposed the Alaska
Statehood bill unlesss the clause
forbidding creation of reservations
for Indians in Alaska is removed.
It also urged what was described
as “a living wage” for natives of the
Pribilof Islands in the Government
controlled fur seal industry.
Another resolution asked the Am
ateur Athletic Union to return to
Jim Thorpe, noted Indian athlete,
the medals he won in the 1912 Olym
pic Games. They were taken from
him for professionalism.
The convention called on the In
terior Department to join with the
Indian Congress and the Governor's
Interstate Council on Indian Affairs
to develop a workable program for
rehabilitation of Indians. It pro
posed a united front in asking Con
gress for funds.
N. B. Johnson, a Justice of the
Oaklahoma Surpeme Court, was re
elected President unanimously at
the closing session of the Seventh
Annual Convention.
Justice John, a Cherokee, has
headed the Congress since its organ
ization in 1944.
Bill Paul, Tlingit Delegate from
Juneau, Alaska, injected some fric
tion into the convention over elec
tion of an Indian Bureau official
to office. His was the only dissent
ing voice and Hiram N. Clark Sup
erintendent of the Standing Rock
Sioux agency. Fort Yates, S. D., was
elected Second Vice President. Clark,
long active in the Congress, inform
ed delegates he is retiring this fall
after 34 years with the Indian Bur
eau.
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Who Says It's Cold in Alaska! [
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Miss Maxine Cothern of Fairbanks boarded a Fan American Clipper
there today enroute to Seattle and Atlantic City, N. J., where she
will compete as the first “Miss Alaska” in the most famous of all
beauty pagents. Stewardess Marian McAllister helped “Miss Alaska"
display the form she hopes will wan her the title of “Miss America.”
Miss Cothern will have one distinction over the other contestants at
Atlantic City—when she gets there, she will have travelled farther
on the North American continent than any of the other beauty
queens. It's 1640 miles from Fairbanks to Seattle and more than
2400 air miles from Seattle to Atlantic City—4040 miles from the
midnight sun to the boardwalk in search of “Miss America” fame
and fortune.
LEAGUE ALASKAN
CITIES FORMED AT
ANCHORAGE MEET
Twenty-six Changes Pro
posed for Modernized
Territorial Legislation
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 1—
i#)—'Twenty-six changes aimed at
modern.zing Territorial legislation
were listed by mayors gathered tor
Alaska-wide conferences.
At the conclusion of the four-day
meet, delegates formed a league
of Alaskan cities, then approved a
constitution and elected oflicers.
Mayor Z. J. Loussac of Anchor
age was elected President. Others
named were Mayor Lee Bettinger,
Kodiak, Vice President; Mayor
Waino Hendrickson, Juneau; May
or Ed Anderson, Nome; City Atty.
John Hodge, Kodiak; City Mgr
Irving Call, Fairbanks, and Coun
cilwoman Mildred Kirkpatrick,
Seward, Board of Directors.
City Mgr. Bob Sharp of Anchor
age becomes Execu'ive Secretary
of the new group, which still must
be ratified by member cities.
Recommended Territorial law
changes included decentralization
of the Alaska Public Works pro
gram to give a Territorial level of
authority; clarification of existing
sales tax legislation; authorization
of model building codes and san
itary laws for all Alaska cities; a
recommendation for amending laws
on annexation and annexation peti
tions and clarification of tax ex
emption rights of churches and
hospitals.
CLEVELAND VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Grove of
Cleveland, O., are registered at the
Baranof Hotel.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Sept. 1 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American- Can
94%. Anaconda 33%. Curtiss-Wright
9%, International Harvester 30%,
Kennecott 65, New York Central
14%, Northern Pacific 21%, U. S.
Steel 38, Pound $2.80%.
Sales today were 1,290.000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: In
dustrials 218.42, rails 63.38, utilities
38.07. _
Maxine Cothern, 22, is pretty, pert i
and talented. She can climb a moun
tain, make a mukluk or smoke a fish
—and has done them all and well.
As Miss Alaska, the New Mexico
Born beauty sets out by Airliner for;
the Atlantic City Board Walk.
Miss Cothern has been an assis- j
tant to the Home Department Di- j
rector at the University of Alaska.
She is an expert cook and crafts- \
man, and one of her many sidelines j
has been swapping ideas with the j
Eskimo women.
Dark-haired Miss Alaska was
born at Portales, N. M. Her mother,
Mrs. Carl A. Cothern, and her step- :
father live at Rich Hill, Mo., where
she once went to school. During
the war, she attended school at
Richmond, Calif.
Mostly, she says, she’d like to
win the Miss America crown to get
the $5,000 scholarship to finish her
education at Iowa State College,
which she attended before coming
to Alaska in 1947.
It was a sourdough at the village
of Nenana who suggested entering
the Queen of the Fairbanks Winter
Carnival in the Miss America con
test.
“Can’t be anybody in the world
more beautiful than Maxine,” the
oldlimer said. "Can’t anybody do
more things than she can.”
He wrote to Pageant Headquart
ers at Atlantic City, got approval
for her entry and here she comes.
Truman On
Air Tonight
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 — (,Pl — j
President Truman tonight will tell
the nation—and the world—that
the United States had no altern
ative when it sent its troops iiKo
Korea.
He ordered this step, the Pres
ident is expected to say, in the in
terests of world peace.
Mr. Truman speaks frqsi the
White House at 9 p.m. iEST) over
all the major radio networks and
television.
His address is described by the
White House as a “Report to the;
People.”
—
MONTANA TEACHER HERE
Mrs. Ray Allen of Ingomar, Mont.,
a new teacher in the public schools
arrived yesterday and is stopping at
the Hotel Juneau.
YONGSAN IS
EVACUATED;
IS BURNING
Young Americans Pulled
Back Following Tank- j
led Red Drive
By BEM PRICE
WITH SECOND DIVISION. Kor
?a, Sept. 1—lifl—Young Americans
rulled back from Yongsan late to
day after a bitter, fighting retreat i
before a powerful tank-led Ktd
drive across the Naktong River.
These men, on the left flank of
the Second Division, had retreated
about 8'j miles since the North
Koreans launched their broad as
sault before last midnight.
The Reds crossed the Naktong
River in at least 17 places.
I was with one of the last groups
to pull out of Yongsan into the
hills. The men were fagged, but
not beaten. They appeared to be
in good spirits.
In the hills behind Yongsan,
Second Division men were digging
in to hold the Red thrust aimed
at cutting off the main highway
between the supply port of Pusan
and the Taegu commumcaticgis
center. The Red thrust was aimed
at cutting this vital supply route
for the entire northern front at
Miryang, 12 miles east of Yongsan.
This Red drive is smashing a
wedge between the Second and 25th
Divisions along the eastward bend
of the Naktong River.
I left Yongsan burning. A mu
nitions dump was exploding Just
beyond the front.
NEW ACTION,
ANTI-TRUST
CASES TAKEN
Filling of Grand Jury Vote
in Indictments May
Determine Moves r
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 1—
IjP)—Filing of the grand Jury vote
in all 10 indictments of the Alaska
anti-trust case today may determXie
whether the 136 individuals and 23
corporations must stand trial lor
price-fixing conspiracies In restraint
of Territorial trade.
Judge Anthony Dlmond has or
dered publication of the vote on
each of the indictments handed
down last June.
Defense attorneys challenged one
unnamed juror’s eligibility on the
grounds of a felony conviction.
They said that should the accusa
tion prove correct and he be dis
qualified, it would alter the status
of any case in which his vote i\id
decided the issue.
Fairbanks liquor dealers who have
requested a transfer of their case
to Fairbanks did not appear in
court yesterday and their arraign
ment has been set for a later date.
A government attorney indicated
the transfer will not be contested.
A motion for transfer by coal
companies to Fairbanks as a result
of alleged prejudice and publicity
here was denied by Judge Dlmond.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period • !
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning • I
• In Juneau—Maximum, 67; •
• minimum, 49. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 64; •
• minimum, 50. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau end Vlrlnltr) •
• Cloudy with intermittent •
• rain tonight. Partly Cloudy •
• Saturday with occasional rain •
• showers. Low temperature to- •
• night about 50 and high Sat- •
• urday near 60. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 houra ending 7:30 a m toda, •
• City of Juneau—.27 inches; •
• Since July 1—15.60. inchfes. • 1
• At Airport— .29 inches. •
• since July 1—12.29 inches. •
SO. FRONT
OFFENSIVE
UNDERWAY
Doughboys Make Success
ful Counterattack-Posi
tions Lost, Retaken
(By Associated Press)
U. S. 25th Infantry Division
doughboys counterattacked today in
to the teeth of a Communist south
west front offensive aimed at throw
ing the United Nations out of South
Korea, and smashed the attackers
back after an initial American re
treat.
But the U. S. 2nd Division, rocked
by and armored an<j infantry at
tack on the 25th’s right flank, ab
andoned Yongsan, only 21 miles
from the highway which links Tae
gu, main UN forward base, with Pu
san, the Allied last-ditch supply
port.
The 25th's doughboys recaptured
strategic Haman, which fell In the
first hours of the Communist at.
tack. It is 35 miles west of Pusan
This temporarily blunted the Red
drive on the extreme southern front.
The Reds, under orders to capture
Masan within three days Jumped
off under a heavy mortar barrage
and seized Haman before the Am
erican counterattack threw them
out of the town. Haman is eight
miles west of Masan, major Red
objective guarding the coastal route
to Pusan. #
Allied Air Attack
A mass Allied air attack of al
most saturation proportions had
slowed the initial Red drive on tbo
southern flank, but had failed to
stop it. Air observers said the planes
and U. S. big guns took a huge toll
of North Koreans.
The whole attack along a blazino
55-mlle front was described by one
American staff officer with the 25th
Division as "their big effort—and
I think it is their last one.” But
most of the American lines were
holding.
Strong Red Wedge
The Reds .however, drove a strong
wedge between the U. S. 25th and
the U. S. Second on the 25th’s right
flank, driving the 2nd back into
an 8**j mile retreat. Yongsan was in
flames as American convoys moved
out of the town. This area is 16
miles northwest of Haman.
Some 50,000 Red troops were com
mitted to the southwestern front
offensive on a line extending from
a point only 12 miles southwest of
Taegu to the extreme southern front.
About 30,000 Reds were in the van
guard, with 20,000 more behind them
in reserve. The U. S. First Cavalry
was holding down the northern
phase of the Red attack.
All-Out Offensive
A second major Red offensive,
signalling the final all-out general
offensive, may burst into flame
at any moment just north of the
present one. This would be in the
Waegwan area, 12 miles northwesS
of Taegu and the most direct line
to that base. In the area much of the
Red strength is believed concen
trated.
The crack Red Second Division
may already be in action somewhere
on the southwest front, and thL
would indicate that the present ac
tion is the Communists' greatest bid
to end the UN resistance.
Allied planes rained 1,000-pound
anti-personnel bombs, 500-pounders
and heavy fighter plane fire on
the attacking Reds in all-out close
support of the defenders. The full
force of Allied air power has been
ordered into the big payoff battle.
Bridgeheads Crowing
Communist bridgeheads across the
Naktong River were growing in the
same area, 23 miles southwest of
Taegu, in which Marines and the
24th Division wiped out the Red
foothold two weeks ago.
At 17 points along the Naktong
River, which has formed the main
Allied defense line in the west, the
Reds struck simultaneously at Am
erican 2nd Division defenders. Two
U. S. battalions were cut off, but
were supplied by air and were fight
ing their way back to their lines.
Reds swarmed across the Naktong,
bringing their tanks with them.
Reds Reckless
"Bodies are stacked up by the
hundreds,” a Second Division officer
told AP correspondent Jack Mac
beth, "but they're still coming.”
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