The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 8, 1950, Page 1

@) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,549 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRI e SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1950 Y\II‘MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS North Korean Offensive Is Reported Checked Giant Carrier Leaves DRAFT ACT SUMMARY GIVEN OUT WASHINGTON, July 8 — (® — Here is a brief summary of the draft O . Truman yesterday, along with main provi- sions of the Selective Service Act ‘which becomes effective tomorrow: Armed forces strength — may be increased by draft, if voluntary en- listments fail, to top limit allowed by law: 2,005882. Strength as of May 31: 1458400. Difference: 547,482, ‘Who must register — all males between 18 and 26. ‘Who may be inducted — all regis- trants over 19 years old. Who may volunteer anyone who is 17 or older. Seventeen-year- olds must have parental consent. Term of service — 21 months for draftees; at least three years for Army volunteers; at least four for Navy; four years for Marines; four years for Air Force. Reserves — may be called up un- der the law, along with National Guard, but probably won’'t be at least immediately. All services will “welcome” certain specially-quali- fied volunteer reservists. NEW VOLCANO IN WEST ALASKA; IS BELCHING SMOKE ANCHORAGR, Alaska, July 8—® —A new volcano was born this week in the white snows of Knife Mountain near the famed “Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.” Ray Peterson, president of North- ern Consolidated Airlines, reported the new crater when he returned from a fishing trip to Katmai Na- tional Monument. The mountain slopes were un- blemished white when the party flew over them July 1, Peterson said. The next morning a dark blot was seen against the snow halfway up the 7,000-foot mountain. An ex- ploratory flight led the party into sulphurous fumes and they found ash from the eruption scattered over the nearby buttress range. Peterson said the crater had widened to 200 feet and still was belching dense black smoke when last seen by the departing fisher- men. TWINS BORN Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Underhill of Pelican became the parents of twin sons early this morning at St. Ann’s Hospital. The first was born at 7:42 am. and the second at 8:09 am. The Washinglon' Merry - Go-Round Bv DREW PEARSON ICopyright, 1%%. by Bell ‘Syndicate, Inc.) WSHINGTON—lke Eisenhower got his comeuppance from sardonic Admiral William D. Leahy ‘at a recent White House meeting. When Ike greeted Leahy, who was Chief of Staff to President Roosevelt in World War II, the admiral looked Eisenhower over carefully and replied: “Hello, Professor.” Ike shook his head vigorously. “Well,” Admiral Leahy comment- ed, “ I can't call you ‘Mr. Presi- dent’—yet.” Ike flushed and changed the sub- Ject. Driblet to Korea There’s been a lot of talk as to why only a driblet of aid was sent to Korea—$200,000—when’ Con- gress voted $10,500,000 more than a year ago. Repubklican Senators Homer Fer- guson of Michigan and Willilam Knowland of California have been raising Cain about this, and quite rightly. There were two inside reasons for this shocking neglect. One was a wrong guess by military intelli- gence, the other was a standoff attitude by General MacArthur. Part of this story came out at a closed-door meeting of the Senate appropriations committee, but not all. Here is the rest of the story. 1. The National Security Council, on advice of the Joint Chiefs of (Continued on Page Four) (UNOFFICIAL CENSUS | Hoonah COUNT §. E. ALASKA IS GIVEN AS 28,000 With the First Division census | office closed and the count of Alas- kans completed for the 1950 decen- nial, Mrs. Bonnie Jo Gronroos, First Division supervisor, announced to- day that the unofficial count for southeast Alaska is 28,000. This does not include Coast Guard personnel at light stations or aboard ships, but does include CG person- nel stationed ashore. All will be in- cluded in the official count. Her estimate of residents who may have been missed by her cen- sus takers is only about 400. What increase will develop from First Di- vision residents who were counted among transients in other localities, is not yet known. These unofficial figures have been released by Mrs. Gronroos: Juneau (within inccrporated city limits) Area adjacent to Juneau Douglas . Ketchikan, Sitka .. Japonski lsland mcludmg Mt. Edgecumbe School, hospitals, and all employees Petersburg ‘Wrangell Metlakatla ... Skagway ........... in city limits ... Angoon Klawock Kake (600" S Hydaburg ... Haines Yakutat Annette Pelican c:ty £ Tenakee Village . Port Chilkoot . Klukwan Saxman Village .. Gustavus Thane ... Elfin Cove Port Alexander ... Another division m census taking is by Recording District, and these Recording District totals have been released by Mrs. Gronroos: Haines Recording District X Juneau Recording District ... Hyder Recording District Ketchikan Recording District.. Petersburg Recording District.. Sitka Recording District ... Skagway Recording District ... 791 Wrangell Recording District.... 1575 The only recording district that shows a population loss during the last ten years is Skagway. But, to | be fair to Skagway, Mrs. Gronroos called attention to the fact that the Haines Recording District was established following the 1940 cen- sus and portions of both the Skag- way and Juneau district were used to make up the Haines area. THREE WAR-BUILT RUBBER PLANTS T0 BE PUT TO WORK | WASHINGTON, July 8 — ® — Three of the government’s war-built synthetic rubber plants are being recalled to active service. Their | mission: to add 88,000 tons to cur- rent U.S. synthetic output of 487,000 tons a year. A recent sharp increase in natural rubber prices — now selling for| around 31 cents a pound compared with 185 cents for synthetic—ap- peared to be behind the decision an- nounced yesterday. Greater availability of the lower priced synthetic will help American manufacturers of tires and other products to hold down their costs and prices. They have emphasized no tire shortage is in prospect. Chairman of CAB Resigns Position WASHINGTON, July 8 — (B — President Truman has accepted the resignation of Joseph J. O’Connell,| Jr, as a member and chairman of | the Civil Aeronautics Board. O’Connell’s decision to quit the government came without advance public indications, though his let- ter “reluctantly” seeking resignation was dated June 13. FROM SACRAMENTO Mrs. Hays Block of Sacramento, Calif., is at the Baranof Hotel. jair | Angeles said, and “we didn't have RECALL OF STATEHOOD BILL ASKED WASHINGTON, July 8 — ® — The Association of American Indian Affairs asked today that the Alaska statehood bill be recalled to allow removal of its “anti-reservation” provisions. Otherwise the association said, the | bill “constitutes an effective guar- antee of Alaskan native land rights and as such is to be whole-heartedly indorsed.” Oliver La Farge, association presi- dent, voiced the opinion in a tele- gram to Senator O’Mahoney (D- Wyo), chairman of the Senate Com- mittee of Interior and Insular Af- fairs. The committee reported fav- orably on the bill June 29. La Farge said the association ob- | Jjects to the provision that *“pend- ing action by the people of Alaska and Congress . . . no reservation for use and occupancy of natives shall be designated . . .” “This anti-reservation provision in effects nullifies the 1936 Alaska Reorganization Act, which made possible the sound policy of settling and confirming Alaskan native land titles by negotiation,” La Farge said. “NAVY FLIER SAYS REDS SEEM T0 BE SAVING AIR POWER| TOKYO, July 8—P—A veteran Navy flier who led a carrier strike July 3-4 over North Korea said to- day the Communists must be con- serving their air power for desper- ation use. Cmdr. Harvey P. Lanham told a news conference in netted revetments which were discovered only by low-level straf- ing. The Reds have small dirt fields scattered all over North Korea, the group commander from Los time to hunt for them.” 2 ANTI-AIRCRAFT UNITS ALERTED TO WESTERN PACIFIC SAN FRANCISCO, July 8—(M— Two antiaircraft units have been |alerted for movement to the Wdst- ern Pacific in the near future, Sixth Army announced today. One unit currently is assigned to |Sixth Army in the Far West, the other to Fourth Army in the south- west. Fourth Army headquarters is at Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Neither the unit designation nor the numker of men involved was disclosed. Suicide Atfack On Commie Tank (By Associated Press) The chief of South Korea’s little air force tells of a suicide attack on a Communist tank by one of his ten fighter pilots. The pilot was killed when he crash-dived into a Red tank and destroyed it. Said the air force commander. “Another pilot will take his place. America will give us another plane | | | the northerners | had many planes cleverly hidden i so that we’ll always have ten fight- | ers and ten Korean pilots to fly them.” Increase Japanese Police, C. G. Order 0f Gen. MacArthur TOKYO, July 8 — (® — General MacArthur today moved to protect his military rear by authorizing tiie Japanese to add a 75,000 man re- serve to their police force and 8,000 to their Coast Guard. It will bring Japan’s total police force to 200,000 including 30,000 national police. Authorization for the reserves was made in a letter to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida. l not regularly. | cago. tin was in his office attending to | company’s locked door, asked about : steamship sailings. When she was | curry. STILL MYSTERY IN DISAPPEARANCE OF MOTHER, 2 KIDDIES Apparently Mrs. Betty Jane Curry and her two children, Dick, 5, and Dianne, 3, missing since June 2§ have completely disappeared from Juneau and the vicinity. That they were missing was re- {ported in The Empire, July 3, and jit was requested that anyone who {had any knowledge of the where- | abouts of Mrs. Curry report to the | United States Marshal’s office. | As far as is known, last person to talk to Mrs. Curry was Al Boutin, Railway Express agent on Sunday morning, July 2. Mr. Boutin had noticed Mrs. Curry Saturday afternoon, standing for at least an hour on the dock. Her apparent dejection alarmed him, but he decided that she was probably someone new in town who was lonely. That day she talked to Miss Sadie Billis, district supervisor for the Alaska Welfare Department and plans were made for her return to the home of her mother in Chix Seemed Distressed Sunday morning, while Mr. Bou- mail she knocked on the express told that the steamship office would not be open until half an hour be- | fore the arrival of the two ships due in port Sunday night, she seemed distressed and uncertain as to what to do about the two pieces of luggage and paper shopping bag she had with her. Mr. Boutin, who recognized her as the woman who had been star- ing into the water from the dock the day before, suggested that she| leave her things in his office, said she could pick them up when the| ships came in, then asked her on| which ship she was sailing. “I don't know. I may not leave,” she answered. ‘With her at the time were Dianne and Dick—beautiful blond children, according to Mr. Boutin. When the Alaska and Aleutian ar- rived Sunday evening, one north, the other southbound, the express agent left Mrs. Curry’s luggage and parcels in the steamship office. Seen on Steamer No ticket was purchased by Mrs. She was seen boarding the Aleu- tian. Whether she remained aboard is not known. Telegrams were sent to both ships by Marshal W. T. Mahoney and Alaska 8.S. Co. agent Henry Green. None among the ships’ crews had seen Mrs. Curry or her children. Monday morning, her belongings were still in the steamship office and Mr. Boutin was about to call police when Mrs. Dorothy Clem, American Red Cross, -went into the office to ask if Mrs. Curry had been seen. A week of searching by the Mar- shal’s office, the city police, Miss Billis of the welfare department, and the Red Cross developed no in- formation regarding Mrs. Curry. She had taken her children from the Johnson home Sunday and ar- ranged to return them after two or three days. During the week it was reported that someone had seen Mrs. Curry boarding a bus in downtown Ju- neau. It was only a rumor and no- thing has developed from it. ‘Whether Mrs. Curry was still in Ju- neau after the Alaska and Aleutian sailed Sunday night is not known. Dianne’s Rag Doll In the meantime, her suit case in which was found her WAC dis- charge papers and her fur coat and other belongings are in the corner of the Railway Express office. A rag doll, probably Dianne’s, waits for | the little blond girl to come and claim it. “There is just one hope that Mrs. Curry and her children are all right,” Deputy Marshal Walter Hel- lan said. “She might have taken a gasboat to one of the canneries and be working near here. However, one would think that with all the pub- licity about her disappearance we would have learned something about her by this time.” Miss Billis is still working “on a few clues” before notifying Mrs. Curry's mother. Blond, about 35 and described as “pbuxom,” Mrs. Curry had been in Juneau sinee April 1949. She some- times used the name of Betty Tip- ton. She came to Juneau from Sew- ard, has been employed here, but ‘RED DRIVE IS STOPPED REPORT NOW Commies, Ho_wever, Mass- ing Troops-U. S. Artil- |, leyPounding Invaders |, TOKYO, July 8—M—Falii of the | | Its fll;ht deck jammed wilh combat planes, 27,000 ‘on carrier Philippine Sea is shown -l val.l Air Sta- tion dock at San Diego, Calif., shortly befort departure for Pearl Harbor to become nucleus of Task Force Yoke, comprising cruisers, destroyers and other craft. Flat-top and escorting destroyers were to rendezvous at sea with cruisers TRUMAN ORDERS ARMY TAKE OVER STRUCK RAILROAD CHICAGO, July 8—M—FPresident Truman today ordered the Army to take over and run the strikebound | Rock Island Railroad, and the striking switchmen’s union went into a huddle to decide what to do about it. The President sakd government seizure—set for 4 p.m. (EST) today —is imperative to protect the na- tional defense and security of the sation. He acted after the AFL Switch- men’s Union thrice refused govern- ment requests to end their 14 day strike against the Rock Island. The union proposed a new un- disclosed peace proposal last night which it said may “dispose of our dispute.” However because of “the threat of direct government intervention” the union called off its strika against four other western and mid- western railroads Thursday. The union contended the Rock Island’s lines are paralleled by tracks of other roads and that a strike on this line alone would create no emergency. Dulles Asks for Increase Military Arms "Right Away’ HAMILTON, N.Y., July 8—M— John Foster Dulles pushed today for increased U.S. military production “right away.” He added this note of urgency after a speech in which he said the hation should convert more of its industry to manufacture of arms in order to shield free nations against attack by Russian-equipped Com- munist satellite forces such as in- vaded South Korea. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Kathleen from Van- couver scheduled to arrive 3 p.m. today. Alaska from Seattle scheduled to arrive at 1 p.m. Sunday. Freighter Ring Splice due Mon- day from Seattle. Prince George from Vancouver scheduled to arrive 3 p.m. Monday. Baranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive Tuesday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday. Aleutian from west scheduled 1 | | southbound 7 p.m. Sunday. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL AT MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN A Daily Vacation Bible School for all children of school age will be held at the Memorial Presby- terian Church, beginning Monday, July 10 at 2 pm. Leaders will be Mr. and Mrs. George Munson, | members of a team of eight from Emporia, Kansas, who are working in the Territory. The Bible School will continue ten days, and children from kindergarten to high school age are eligible. MAIDMENT HERE Gene E. Maidment of Seattle is, stopping at the Baranof Hotel. l. Toledo and Helenma. (® Wirephoto. "Being Afraid” Is Women's Drawback Says Woman Mayor SEATTLE, July 8—{M—Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee of Port- land told an international women’s convention last night that “now is the time we should be afraid of being afraid.” She told the concluding session of the American Federation of Sorop- timist Clubs that women must over- come the fears that have held them back. Fear of criticism, she said, was one of them. “If women were in policy»making positions in_the government.” she said, “the business status of women would improve,” The convention attracted nearly 1,000 delegates from each of the 48 states, Alaska, Canada and Eng- land. Seattle Will Be Target for A-Bomb Attack Next Monday SEATTLE, July 8—{M—Seattle will be A-bombed twice next Mon- day—one an underwater blast in Elliott Bay at 6:50 a.m., and the second an aerial explosion from a height of 2,500 feet at 3:05 p.m. Both will be imaginary. The theoretical attack will test the city’s new civilian defense or- ganization and provide a dress re- hearsal of possible future disaster. Results will be scrutinized, studied and analyzed by government offi- cials from Washington, D.C., along with mayors and other officials of west coast cities. Command Changed in Navy Expedition To Point Barrow SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 8—M— Capt. Guy B. Helmick has been ordered to relieve Capt. Louis D. Sharp as commander of the Navy's 1950 resupply expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska. The Pacific fleet's amphibious headquarters said Capt. Helmick’s assignment is in addition to his regular duties as commander, Trac- tor Squadron One, of the Amphib- ious Ferce. Capt, Sharp has been ordered to headquarters duties. Ships of the expedition are now loading at Pacific coast ports. WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 59; ® minimum, 48. At Airport—Maximum, 59; ® minimum, 36. FORECAST . (Juneau and Vielnity) . Continued fair tonight and ® Sunday. Low temperature ® tonight about 48, high Sun- ® day near 68. SPRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today = City of Juneau — Trace; e since July 1—0.96 inches. L 4 At Airport — 001 inches; ® since July 1—037 inches. | \ MacArthur (ommands, Korean War WASHINGTON, July 8 — (B — President Truman today named Gen. Douglas MacArthur as com- manding general of the United Na- tions forces in Korea. Acting under a U.N. Security Council resolution, Mr. Truman also directed MacArthur to use theé) o UN/'s blue and white flag, along with the flags of the participating nations, in operations against the Communist troops of North Korea. The Security Council at a meet-' South Kgrean town of Chonan and a renewed American retreat before the North Korean invaders were re- ported today by field dispatches. This news by telephone from cor- Irespondem.s at the front came shortly after a Tokyo headquarters #| communique said the Red drive had been “curtailed” but that the in- vaders were massing troops, armor and artillery for a renewal of their offensive. ‘There still has been no major American unit committed, however, a spokesman at American forward headquarters in Korea declared. He said a major unit would be one larger than a battalion. (Pre- vious dispatches had mentioned a battalion of 400 to 500 men in ac- tion. This would indicate that the American retreat, galling as the dispatches indicated it was to the men involved, was by comparatively small numbers.) The communique was issued at 11:45 p.m. Saturday (8:45 am. EST). In a telephoned report from the front ten minutes later, AP Cor- respondent O. H. P, King said angry and weary American forward troops had retreated again Saturday. In a cnll 3W _(DHGBH hld captured Chonan, a lnrlo wwn 60 miles south of Seoul for their deepest penertation yet. The call, ! over the one line used by both the Army and all correspondents, was l /ing at Lake Success, N.Y., yester-y i varrupted before he could give day authorized a unified commflnd.detnflsibout Chonan. b of UN. forces under the United States. The council asked the U.S. name a supreme commander. MacArthur thus becomes the first military leader to command unified forces of the 59-nation world or- ganization. PACIFIC NORTHERN BRINGS 10, TAKES 19 Pacific Northern Airlines vrought 10 passengers here yesterday and carried 19 on the outbound flight. From Anchorage were R. A. Ar- vidson, L. A. Moore, Tony Freidas, Roy Rhodes, Dan C. Fowler, Jack Bowman and A. Osteraa. Harold Olsen, J. B. Reher and H. Hawes came from Cordova. John McKay went ‘to Yakutat; Leo Matson, Dr. and Mrs. Philip Armstronig with Phyllis, Wesley and Pat, wént to Cordova and these pas- sengers to Anchorage: G. V. Gra- ham, I. L. Roher, E. E. Wilkie, K. C. Hawkes, Max Patachnik,, Ed Hales, John Reed and Col. J. D.} Alexander. Booked to Kodiak were Aldrich Long, Mrs. Joyce M. Cagney, Julia and Paula Cagney. to FROM PHOENIX C. I. Minning of Odom and Com- pany, Phoenix, Ariz., is registered' at the Baranof Hotel. | Small Force In Retreat King’s report on the American retreat gave no inkling of the num- bers of men involved, but earlier dispatches had indicated they were relatively small. King said American equipment had arrived and fresh troops had reached the general area, lending encouragement to American deter- mination to reverse the trend and hurl the Northerners back soon. He said that as of 6 p.m. Saturday the American equipment had not yet gone into action, however. (The “equipment” he mentioned presum- ably included tanks, which a Tokyo headquarters spokesman previously said had reached Korea but had not yet started fighting.) King added that the invaders had not followed the American retreat for its full distance, but were using heavy artillery. Information in Tokyo was that the American retreat was the one which AP Correspondent Tom Lam- bert had reported began Friday night, followed an American thrust northwi that the Reds ambushed and hurled back. Withdrawal Completed ‘The withdrawal was said in Tokyo to have been probably completed during Saturday. ‘The accounts squared generally with Tokyo communique, which | placed the strongest enemy force— | with 40 to 50 tanks and truck-drawn (Continued on Page Two) Lookie... 8 IRVINGS'S WILL BE OPEN SATURDAY, JULY 8th, at3:00 P.M. Sunday, July 9th, at 3P.M. The Cocktail Hour o Irving’s is located just off the shores of Gastineau Channel on the Douglas Highway &z all good whing dings start and end at irving’s