The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,540 J UNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U.S. Aid Is Ordered to South Korean Forces | DRAFT EXTENSION BILL GIVES ADDED POWER, TRUMAN WASHINGTON, June 27 — ® — The House voted overwhelmingly today to extend the draft law for another year and give President Truman new power to order the National Guard and all reserves to immediate active duty. The vote was 314 to 14. Spurred by developments in the Far East, it sped the bill to'the Senate two days ahead of schedule as reports reached the floor that U.S. warplanes already were bomb- ing North Korean tanks. The bill contains no restrictions such as the Senate and the House previously had voted. The com- promise was reached quickly this morning and originally was sched- uled for House consideration Thurs- day. It keeps the present draft law alive for another year and gives the President authority he does not now have to put the National Guard and the Reserves on active duty. The House put aside debate on a tax bill to vote on the draft mai- sure after Rep. Marcantonio (ALP- NY) waived his right to block ac- tion. House rules permit any mem- ber to delay for at least 24 hourt consideration of a compromise bil drafted by Senate-House conferees. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 27 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau minc stock today is 2%, American Can 108%, Anaconda 29%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvester 26%, Kennecott 55%, New Ypork Central 12%, Northern Pacific 14, U.S. Steel 33, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 5,000,000 shares Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 21207, rails 52.05, utilities 4139, ANOTHER WILD DAY NEW YORK, June 27— ®—Sell- ing forces battered the stock mar- | ket for the second day in a row! today after President Truman dis- closed a new hard-hitting policy in the Far East. Final prices were down $1 to $z a share but well above the lowr for the session. Some stocks closed highers Losses at one time extended to a peak of more than $7 each. During the morning the market managed a fast rally in a rebound from Monday’s slide, one of the worst in 20 years. Demand soon faltered, however, and after the President spoke prices went down in a hurry. TOUR AGENT VISITS Robert A. Braund of Scenery Un- limited Tours, San Francisco, is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. MIKE GOODMAN IN Mike Goodman of the Whiz company, Pelican. is a Juneau visi- tor, stopping at the Baranof Hotel. The Washington Merry - Go-Round Bv DREW PEARSON ICopyrisht, 1950, by Bell Syndicste, Inc.) 'ASHINGTON — Attorney Gen- eral J. Howard McGrath, with a good record for straight-shooting, has got himself betwixt and be- tween in the Senator Brewster wire-tapping scandal. Here is what he faces. On one side, McGrath was elected to the Senate when he exposed, berated, and campaigned against the Governor ‘Vanderbilt wire-i tap- ping smndfl The: Rgpublican gov- ernor ‘of Rhode’ Island had tapped the wires of Rhode Island’s attor- ney general and the mayor o1 Pawtucket, using the same wire tapper, Frank Bielaski, who later raided the now famous Amerasia Magazine. McGrath rightly condemned wire tapping as methods of a Soviet police state and got elected to the Senate, More recently he has defended the Justice Department for not prosecuting the Amerasia case be- cause the evidence was obtained | by illegal wire tapping and illegal search. On the other side, McGrath finds | that a friend and ‘former Senate colleague was chairman of the com- mittee ithat arranged for tapping the telephone of Howard Hughes, head of Trans World Airline, at a time when that Senator—Brewster of Maine—was busy as a bird dog (Continued on Page Four) TALLY OF VOTES SHOWS NEW LEADER IN QUEEN CONTEST Roberta _rv1_esserschmidl Forges Ahead With _Three Days Left Queen Candidate Roberta Mes- serschmidt, sponsored by the Rotary Club and the Business and Profes- sional Women’s Club, has_forged to the lead in the Independence Day | Queen Contest, a count of ballots | reveals. | The tallying ended with Miss Messerschmidt 900 ahead of Car- men Mantyla, candidate of the Moose and the Women of the Moose, | who held first place until yester- day. But observers, watching the pat- tern of ballot returns to the con- test headquarters at the Juneau Drug Company, said that at least two of the candidates seem to be| holding their tickets until the tinal days of the contest. The number of ballots marked in favor of Miss Mantyla for queen re- mains unchanged at 31,500. Shirlev Casperson, sponsored by the Central Labor Council and the Filipino Community, is holding fourth place with 10,000 votes—the same number which had been turned in Friday. | Nella Jermain, candidate of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, had submitted 1,800 votes since Friday ot bring| her total to 19,300. The contest will end at midnight Friday. The Queen of the Fourth will be crowned at a Coronation Ball in the Elks Ballroom Satur- day night. She will reign durmg the three- day Fourth of July -celebration here, attended by the other three entrants in the contest. Mystery still shrouds the identityf of the three-man committee of busi ness men who will choose the mon- arch who will rule the celebration with the queen. Miss Judy Greene, asked today 11 the “King of Juneau” had been chosen, said that she could only re- peat his qualifications and say that he would be crowned with the queen at the Coronation Ball. The man who will serve as “king" | will be one who has spent at least 20 years in Alaska and at least 10 years in Juneau. He must be re- spected by the community for his services to Juneau, she said. No prize has been announced for the “king,” but the winner of the Queen Contest will receive a round- trip to Seattle and $100. Second place winner will receive a round trip to Anchorage and $100, while third place winner will be given $100, and the fourth place winner | $75. ® v o 0o 0 0 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 72; minimum, 52. At Airport—Maximum, 72; minimum, 47. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Variable cloudiness and not so warm tonight and Wednesday. Lowest tempera- ture tonight about 53. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — Trace; since June 1 — 0.93 inches; since July 1—72.07 inches. At Airport — 0.01 inches; since June 1 — 0.50 inches; since July 1—46.27 inches. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Kathleen in port and scheduled to sail for Skagway at 11:30 tonight. Baranof from Seattle scheduled ‘to arrive at 10:30 tonight. Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver tonight. 1 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday. | Chilcotin scheduled to sail from| Vancouver Thursday -night. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail| from Vancouver Saturday. | Alaska from west scheduled | southbound Friday. FROM YAKUTAT Mrs. Robert D. Jackson of Yaku- | tat and John and Jim Jackson, are | today the airline has suspended registered at the Baranot Hotel. SHIPS IN PACIFIC T0 SHIFT | WASHINGTON, June 27 — (® —|’ The Navy said today that some ships now on the U.S. west coast undoubtedly would be moved west- ward in general support of opeta- | tions in the Western Pacific. A spokesman said the 27,000-ton | aircraft carrier Philippine Sea might be sent as far as Pearl Har- | bor. He said it was possible some smaller ships would be moved on to reinforce the 7th Fleet and the Far | Eastern Naval Force. | He also said the carrier Boxer | which had been scheduled for an immediate overhaul in a Pacific| | Coast shipyard, would be kept n operating condition pending de- velopments in Asia. | He said the Navy did not contem- plate any immediate movement of | Naval units from the Atlantic to the | Pacific. NEWS GUILD HEAD WANTS ALASKA'S PULP DEVELOPED| WASHINGTON, June 27 — (# — Sam Eubanks, executive vice pres- | dent oi the American Newspaper | Guild (CIO) said today he hoped the guild’s convention or a house | Jjudiciary subcommittee will take| some action to spur the opening of | southeastern Alaska newsprint pa- | per resources. Eubanks made the comment in| connection with a proposal that | the guild study the possibility of ‘atinching a daily newspaper. Obtaining of néwsprint was one of the proLiems cited. PYROTECHNICS ON MONDAY NIGHT 10 FEATURE ROCKETS Among the many features of the 4th of July fireworks is a rocKe! flight. This huge device, which is over 6 feet high and 20 feet long contains 144 two pound rockets which will escend into the zenith in one spontaneous flight. An elab- orate arrangement of fusing ™- stalled by Ernie Davis, chief rock- eteer, makes the simultaneous fir- ing of so large a group possibie. Chief rocketeer Davis is assisted in his work by Bill Stoddard, Wal- | ter Butts, and John Boland. Another spectacular feature which emanates from the rockef depart- ment is 24 seven foot sky rocketsi containing parachutes with colored lights attached. This entire group will be put in the air in rapid succession to literally fill the sky with parachutes. Both of the above features are on the big Monday night fireworks show. BRITONS WORRIED AT KOREAN CRISIS LONDON, June 27—(®—Worried | Britons crowded around Prime Min- ister Attlee’s official residence to- day while' the cabinet considered | the Korean crisis, Btween 200 and 300 persons smod silently along the widewalks in| narrow Downing Street. In No. 10, a full dress cabinet meeting was on. Chief worry to Britain is the | effect the loss of Southern Korea to the Communists weuld have on other Far Eastern trouble spots. An informed diplomatic source speculated a Northern Korean vi:- tory probably ‘would result in nl setup of Communist attacks in In- dochina and Malaya, | N. W. PLANE TRIPS | T0 SEOUL ARE OFF SEATTLE, June 27—A—K. R.| Ferguson, vice president of opera- tions for Northwest Airlines, said operations into Seoul, Korea. He said NWA personnel have been evacuated and that it was indefi- nite when operations into Seoul| will be resumed. TO INTERCEDE | reporters: | military service,” | Maine this fall. U.S. ASKS REDS INKOREAWAR WASHINGTON, June 27 — (# — | The United States asked Russia to- day to use its influence to bring about the withdrawal of the invad- ing Communist forces from South Korea. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk deliv- ered the request in a note to the Soviet Foreign Office at Moscow. | The State Department announced | the action here. The text of the note was not made public immediately. Press Officer Lincoln White told “The Embassy asked that the Soviet government use its influence with the North Korean authorities | for the withdrawal of the invading { forces and the cessation of hos- tilities.” VETO OVERRIDDEN VET PAY RAISES | INP. 0. SERVICE: | | WASHINGTON, June 26 — (® —; The House today overrode Presi- | dent Truman’s veto of a bill giving pay raises to World War II vet- | erans in the postal service. 1 The President vetoed the bill last week. He said it was “tantamount” to “an indirect bonus or adjusted service payment in recognition of which would be “a far reaching step in an undesir- able direction.” The House vote was 213 to 73, or more than the two-thirds re- Cruise Ship with 114 Aboard Beached quired to override a veto. If the Senate. follows . suit, the bill be- | comes law despite the President's objections, The effect of the bill would be to give veterans, who joined the postal field service after military duty, full credit for the time th spent in uniform. The benefits would be limited to those in the | postal service prior to July 1, 1950. EXCISE TAX BILL IS | NOW UP IN HOUSE WASHINGTON, June 27 — (® — ‘The House agreed today to consider i the $1,010,000,000 excise tax slash- ing bill under a “this-or-nothing” | rule barring any amendment the measure. The rigid procedures—the usua! way of considering tax bills—wiil| permit Republicans one opportunity. however, to call for a vote on thexr tax views, The Republicans will seek to cut ! the bill into halves, with separate votes on each half. | Geologist Drowned in Brooks Range as | Helicopter Upsefs FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 27— | &—Vincent E. Shainin, 30-year-old University of Maine geology in structor, drowned Sunday when Navy helicopter crashed into a lake near the northern rim of Alaska. The Navy said the pilot and an- other passenger escaped unhurt The mishap occurred in the Brooks mountain range which extends a ross the Arctic top of the Terri- tory. Shainin was on summer assign- ment at Point Barrow for the U.S. geological survey and had planned to return to his teaching post in It is near Barrow that the Navy is conducting ex- plorations for oil. The young instruc'or's body was | flown here yesterday. His wife and Lmld live at Orono, Malne CONFIDENCE GIVEN BRITISH SOC. GOVT. LONDON, June 27—M—Britain’s Socialist Government won a vote ot confidence, 309 to 289, tonight on its decision to stay from Paris discus- sion over pooling Europe’s coal and steel resources, | ship, caught fire within moments . NAVY COMMISSARY BRISTOL BAY IS OPEN| AT LAST AFTER LONG| LABOR POW-WOW DILLINGHAM, Alaska, June 27 (A—The Bristol Bay salmon 1ishing season was launched yesterday. Operations got- under way after | one of the most involved labor | union bargaining situations in the | history of the northern fishing in- dustry. The final the labor agreement in multi-union - controversy was with the CIO-chartered Local 46 for the resident cannery wurkcx‘si in western Alaska. | Jim Downey, acting agent of CIO ! Local 46, advised the Associated | Press “We have now signed a sat- isfactory agreement” in on-the-spot negotiations. The Alaska Salmon Indust?y, Inc., also had signed an agreement | earlier at Seattle with Joe Nashoa- | look, who represented the part uli Local 46 aligned with the Cu Longshoremen’s Union. Downey said: “We had notified the salmon in- dustry that by unanimous resolu- tion of Bristol Bay resident can- nery workers, whole-heartedly sup- ported by the Alaska Fsthermen's Union, both resident and non-res- ident, the supply ship Coastal! Rambler would not be unloaded, or any canning operations permit- ted before we had our own legit- imate contract negotiated and signéd here.” (At Seattle, W. C. Arnold, man- aging director of the cannery or-; ganization, said he had not received | any information on the details ui‘ the agreement reached with Dow- | ney’s group). After Collision NEW YORK, June 27—®—The cruise ship Excalibur, outward bound with 114 passengers, col- lided with a freighter in upper New York bay shortly before noon today and was beached off Brooklyn. The freighter, Columbia, a Danish after the crash, but half an hour later the flames were reported under control. It was not known immediately how the accident occurred. Arrangements were made to re-| | move the passengers from the Ex- calibur and return them to Jersey | City, N.J., the point from which | the liner sailed. BURNS IN HAWAII HONOLULU, June 27—M—Loss was estimated at $1,500,000 in a fire that destroyed a block-long Navy + commissary outside the Pearl Har- bor Navy yard last night. Honolulu, Hickham Field and |Pearl Harbor firemen joined in 'r ighting the blaze. They saved the nearby chief petty officers’ club | |and children’s nursery. Ten fire- men were overcome by smoke. ATOMICENERGY COM, i | | | - READY FOR "ALL OUT' WASHINGTON, June 27 — (A — Rep. Durham (D-NC), vice chair- man of the Senate-House Com- | mittee on Atomic Energy, said to- day “the atomic energy program is set for whatever we have to do.” Durham made the statement to reporters in commenting on Pres- ident Truman's order for aid to Korea. He called the order “the only thing to do.” *~ Durham also said “the H-bomb is progressing” but that more moh- ey may be needed for the project. NOME RACER DIES NOME, Alaska, June 27—M—Al 'YANKS SHOOT DOWN 4 REDS OVER KOREA Communistmrled Back- We'll Demand Military Action fo Halt War (By the Associated'Press) Gen. MacArthur's headquarters confirmed tonight that American fighters have shot down four Com- munist-manned North Korean planes, and there were well-founded reports that American bombers soon would be hurled into.the Korean war under a broad new U.S. policy decision. American plancs, is under- stood, will bomb all towns cap- tured by North Korean troops. Resurgent South Koreans were reliably reported to have hurled back the invaders from the North to a point 20 miles from Seoul, | their capital. The South Korean forces were 1t said to have recaptured strategic | Uijongbu, 12 miles north of Seoul, slicing across the main communi- | cation lines of the Communist tanj | spearhead. MacArthur's headquar- ters said earlier reports of Com- munist advances into Seoul had been exaggerated and tanks re- | ported in Seoul's suburbs “appear to have been isolated forays.” U. 8. Support In Washington a U.S. policy de- cision threw strong support to the embattled South Koreans. The key to the decision, it is understood, is in the concluding paragraph of the UN. resolution adopted Sunday calling on all member nations ‘to give assistance to the U.N. in stop- ping the Korean war. Since the order called for a cease fire all along the line and withdrawal ot Communist forces and since the North Koreans have been branded aggressors, U.S. policy is reported based on convictions that it will serve U.N. purposes, The Tokyo report of plans to use American bombing planes appar- ently accords with Washington planning. MacArthur's headquarters said he knew nothing about Seomn! | broadcasts which sald American troops would join in the Korean conflict. At Lake Success, the United States announced its intention ot presenting an important resolution on the Korean crisis. It was re- ported the United States would de- mand U.N. backing for military ac- tion. In London, Prime Minister Att- lee told Britain’s House of Com- | mons the North Korea attack o3 the Seoul Republic was a full scale in- vasion. He promised a statement later. Failed to Move Word of recapture of Uijongbu came from Korean sources and wds partly confirmed by two Korean newspapermen in telephone conver- sation with Tokyo. Unofficial ad- vices yesterday had been that | Uijongbu fell to the invaders be- | cause the South Korean Second | Division’s counterattack failed to i move on schedule. | The American-manned fighters in their first taste of action shot down four Russian-built Yak fighters which tried to interfere with an airlift evacuation of Ameri- cans from South Korea. The American bombers, well founded reports said, would make their first runs tonight, aiming at | bombing all towns held by the Communists south of the 38th par- allel, which separates South from North Korea. A Seoul broadcast quoted Presl~ 1 dent Syngman Rhee of South Ko- rea as saying an American General has been named South Korea's de- fense commander. Tt sald Gen. MacArthur had promised bombers and anti-tank guns for a “joint de- | fense operation.” The defense commander was named in the broadcast simply as “General Church.” Brig. Gen. John \H Church is listed as commander Planes Are in Action {Brief Announcement by MacArthur Tells of Fights on Communists By RUSSELL BRINES TOKYO, WEDNESDAY — (® — American planes are in action against the Communist invadey of South Korea, General Mac- Arthur announced ‘today. The U.S. Navy also is on com- bat missions, he said. The terse announcement from the American General's head- quarters said: “The Far East Air Forces and Naval elements of the Far East Command are conducting com- bat missions south of the 38th parallel of Korea in support of the Korean Republic. “Ammunition and supplies are being air and waterlifted to Ko- rea to aid the South Korean forces. “A small advance echelon of | General Headquarters has been | established in Korea.” The MacArthur announcement gave no particulars of this almost instant implementation of Presi- dent Truman'’s order to stem the Commiunist aggressor. A little earlier, however, a broadcast from the South Korean capital of Seoul said American planes already were attacking the invading North Korea tanks. It was made in the name of Presi- dent Syngman Rhee. KEY POINTS, U.S. POLICY, BY TRUMAN | WASHINGTON, June 27 — (# — Key points in the Far Pacific policy announced today by President Tru- man: 1. US. air and sea forces to give the Korean government troops cover and support. 2. The Tth Fleet to prevent any attack on Formosa. 3. The Chinese government on Formosa to cease all air and sea operations against the mainland. 4. US. forces in the Philfppine: to be strengthened and military aid | speeded up. 6. Military aid for France and the Associated States in Indochina to be stepped up and a military mis- sion to be sent to work with the Indochina forces. 6. The United States will con- tinue to uphold the rule of law. PRIME MINISTER SENDS AUSTRALIAN PLANES TO MAYALA CANBERRA, Australia, —{M—Prime Minister Robert G Menzies announced tonight Aus- tralia has decided to send a squad- ron of heavy Lincoln bombers to Bingapore because of the situation in Korea. This will be in addition to a Royal Australian Air Force transport squadron already dispatched. ILINTIN ISLAND MAY BE SCENE, CHINESE BATTLE | HONG KONG, June 27—P—1n-| termittent gunfire was heard today | June 24 Carey, 78, wellknown racer of sx-,o! the Ryukyu (Okinawa) military |from the vicihity of Lintin Island, ‘berlan dogs and winner of many Alaska sled races, died here yester- day. He was a member of Anvil Lodge, F&AM, and belonged to Seattle’s Nile Temple of Shriners. Recently he has been mining in the Kougarok area. Survivors include a daughter and several grand-children in San Fran- | cisco. government. FROM SITKA Norval Peterson of Sitka is at the Baranof Hotel. FROM WESTWARD Rose F. Ms}-quis of Anchorage Is at the Barano! Hotel, ! five miles west of Hong Kong, and | may mean Chinese Nationalists | and Communists are again nghung for the island. It was last in the hands of the| Nationalists who use is as a base| for the blockade of the Pearl mvery estuary leading to Canton. Other islands in the vicinity were ‘ abandoned last month by the Na- tionalists, ’WARSHIPS PLANES 10 GIVE AID Truman IssEs— Orders in Crisis—Far Reaching Statement Issued WASHINGTON, June 27 — ® — President Truman today ordered United States planes and warships to the aid of South Korean forces. He laid down a policy of standing firm against Communist aggression in the Far Pacific. As a part of the broader policy, Mr, Truman directed that the U. 8. Seventh Fleet be prepared to in- tervene to prevent any Communist attack on Formosa, the island re- fuge of the Chinese Nationalist government, At the same time, he asked that Chiang Kai Shek, head of the Chi- nese Nationalists, cease dttacks on the mainland as a contribution to- ward the pacification of the whole area. He also announced he is stepping up aid to the Philippines and Indo- china. Truman’s Statement Mr. Truman announced his ac- tions In a statement which de- clared: “The attack upon Korea makes it plain beyond all doubt that Communism has passed beyond the use of subversion to conquer inde- dependent nations and will now use armed invasion and war. It was learned that Mr. Truman’s historic decisions were reached at a_high policy w At the White House last Before announcing them .in. a statement today, he .called both Democratic and Republican Con- gressional leaders to the White House to review them and explain the background. The United States actions were taken under the United Nations resolution which condemned the Communist invasion of Korea and asked all members of the UN. to lend their support to carrying out the U.N. declaration for a halt to the fighting. Next Big Question The ‘next big question is what will be Russia’s reaction. ‘The hope of American officials is that the Soviets will refrain from any direct aid to the North Korean forees and permit the fighting there to be ended. « Even before Mr. Truman's an- nouncement that he was sending air cover to the South Koreans, there had been reports from in- formed Tokyo sources that Ameri- can bombers would hit towns held by the Communists south of the 38th parallel—the dividing line be- tween South. and North Kol In their invasion, the have used small amphibious forces to land troops behind the lines of! the South Koreans. This is one tactic which superior American forces could quickly stop. (Seoul broadcasts said an Amer- ican General would take command of the “joint defense operation.* (Continued on Page Eight) KOREAN MESS MAY DELAY CIVIL RULE "IN PACIFIC ISLANDS WASHINGTON, June 27 — (A — There was speculation—but no defi- nite indicativh—today ' that the Korean situation might upset time- tables for giving civil government to Guam, American Samoa and the trust territory of the Pacific. Guam is to pass from Navy to Interior Department administra- tion next Saturday. A civilian gov- ernor, appointed last September, |has been laying the groundwork for the new regime. Some observers suggested that in view of the tension over Korea, and in the intereést of U. S. secur- ity, the Navy might retain control {a while longer. James -P. Davis, director of In- | terfor's Divigion of Territories and | Island Possessions, told a reporter, however, that the Guam change- over probably will take place as scheduled. " (Continued op Page Eight) ’t M