The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1950, Page 1

"THE DAILY ALASKA. EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV,, NO. 11,559 W JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Taejon Falls As Reds Blast 24th Division HIRST-CHICHAGOF WILL REOPEN, SORHSEN SAYS Form'r Blg-GoId Producer Will Resulne Operaton ~(losed ‘Since 1943 Good news for Juneau is the an- nouncement by Paul M. Sorensen that he is about to reopen the Hirst-Chichagdf mine on Kimsham Cove. Sorensen, who arrived in Juneau yesterday by Pan American with Mrs. Sorensen and their young daughter, is engineer and general manager of the Hirst, closed down in 1943 when gold mining was sus- pended by the War Production Board. With the mine returning to op- eration, it will be the only gold mine producing in southeast Alaska at the present rtime. Only lack of labor in the territory has prevented an earlier resumption of operation, Mr. Sorensen said. For many years the Hirst-Chi- cagof was the second largest hard rock gold producer in Alaska, sec- ond only to the Alaska Juneau. Later it was lowered to third place | by the Independence mine of the Alaska Consolidated. Closed down since 1943, the mine has been kept up by a maintenance | crew and Mr. Sorensen said today he expected to be in full produc-| tion during the winter. Some of his key men afe returning to work with | him and plans include the rehabili- tation of the Chichagof power plant that furnished power for both the Hirst and Chichagof mines. Crew of Sixty At its top production the Hirst had a crew of 60 with the mill op- erating three shifts and the mine two. . Fifty tons of ore a day were milled by amalgamation and ‘flo- tation process. Only the fact that the Hu—st- Chichagof has high grade ore makes possible the opening of the ‘mine nat this time, ' “Our dividends will not be as large as they were in the past, but the idirectors and I agree that we should | be able to operate now and return a reasonable profit.” Bince leaving Alaska Mr. Soren- sen has continued engineering and mining. During the war, as army Major Sorensen, with combat troops he secured coal mines in Germany and held them until joined by oc- cupational forces. In the Aachen area, he and the men working with him, were operating in mine tun- (Convinued on Page SIX) The Washington| Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON ICopyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (Ed. Note—Drew Pearson’s col- umn: foday takes the form of a letter to his 17-year-old stepson on seme of the ideals we are trying te champion in Korea.) ‘Washington, July 17, 1950. Dear Son, It is a wet, rainy midnight and I can’t sleep. So I am in the office at my typewriter, with the kittens trying to crawl up my pa- jama leg. It isn’t the rain that keeps ‘me awake, but some of the problems facing the world, and the fact that you and a lot of other boys may soon have to go off tc a strange and distant battlefront called Korea. So I' have been wondering how you, who will soon celebrate your 18th birthday, and a lot of other boys around that age must feel when you have to grow up, go'to school and plan your lives with a sword literally hanging over your head. I know a little bit about this, because I was in college when we entered World War I. That, how- ever, was the first war America had fought in a long time, and to most of us it was a glorious and exciting adventure. We did not know at that time it was to be but the beginning of a series of wars. So we enjoyed the parades and all the national enthusiasm, and I remember vividly how dies- appointed some of us, who had been picked for officers training camp, were when the Armistice whistles blew. We even kept on (Continued on Fq.e_ Four) | from the Marine Cooks and Stew- | lut the Baranof Hotel. BUYERS, TROLLERS SIGN AGREEMENT ON COHO PRICES Representatives of five fish buy- ing firms today signed an agree- ment with the United Trollers of | Alaska, Local 100, to pay a mini- | mum of 22 cents per pound for! coho salmon and to increase by two | CAPITOL HILL cents per pound the minimum prices | {on small red kings and white kings. | This marks the first time in the| history of the trollers’ organiza- | i tion that a minimum price agree- ment on coho salmon has been made. The 22-cent price goes into effect immediately, Andy Barlow, execu- | tive secretary of the UTA said after the meeting here today. ‘ The new minimum is an increase | of one cent per pound over the av-| erage dockside prices yesterday. | At a meeting held July 1 betv»eeu‘ buyers and the trollers’ union, prices | of 12 cents per pound on the ground | {and 15 cents at dockside were of-| fered. The trollers’ union refused this offer. A final meeting was set for bo-' day. ! At the first meeting, the buyers| stated that the size and quality of the fish in the coho runs could not be determined at such an early| date, but would be known by today. ! The agreement on small red‘ kings and white kings increased the minimum prices on small reds to| 23 cents and on whites to 22 cents. ‘ Buyers present at the negntlaum,| | session today were Jack Juhnson| | New England Fish Compan: Whitmarsh, Polar Fisheries; Ed C | Johnson, Oxenburg; Wallis George, Alaska Coast Fisheries; and Elton | Engstrom, Engstrom Brothers. } Representing the trollers’ union were Barlow; B. H. Manery, O. G.! Nolde, Carl Jensen, and Carl Weid- man, Juneau;Paul Binkley, Wran- gell; Al Brookman, Sitka; and Nels | Nelson, Ketchikan. \ ALASKA STEAM | HIRING BRINGS | UP ALL DISPUTE| SEATTLE, July 20—®—A union ! leader filed new charges of unfair| labor practices today in the long- | standing dispute over Alaska| Steamship Compny hiring. The charges were filed with the | National Labor Relations Board in behalf of 90 individuals. They were filed by Don L. Rotan, organizer of | the unaffiliated Pacific Marine | Stewards Union. The union was formed in-a break‘ ards Union (CIO) over the left-wing i issue. The charges were leveled at the steamship firm, the Pacific Mari- | time Association and the CIO Ma- | rine Cooks’ Union. The charges are similar to those made in behalf of all md:vnduals‘ last November. A complaint was issued on them by the NLRB re- glonal office and a hearing was;| held. The trial examiner never has | handed down his findings. | The charges filed today assert the | 90 individuals have been deprived of | jobs on the ships of the Alaska line | since March 9 because of an illegal | contract between the Maritime Association, to which the company belongs, and the CIO union. ! REGULATIONS FOR WATERFOWL SHOOTING T0 BE OUT AUGUST 26| ‘Waterfowl hunting regulations for the 1950-51 season will be issued | about August 26, a month later than usual, it was announced today by | C. Howard Baltzo, assistant re- gional director for the Fish and ‘Wildlife Service. The added time is to give more time for flyway biologists on: the northern breeding grounds to send in their latest information and for it to be analyzed, he said. Season in this area opens October 1 or thereabouts. The definite date, which will presumably be the same, | will be named when the regulations come out. This new announcement involves not only waterfowl in Alaska, but| to northeast states, such as scoter, eider,, old squaw ducks, doves, and rails. Runar Hendrick of Chatham is | sibly | taxes | are: | Egegik, 12 days, 20 hours; Kvichak- also coot, as well as birds which fly |* PROFITS TAX/ DEMANDED ON WASHINGTON, July 20—(P—De- | mands arose on Capitol Hill today for a multi-billion dollar excess profits tax on corporations, to pre- vent profiteering. A general tax boosting bill—pos- putting larger levies on in- dividual incomes, along with higher | on corporatjon profits—will replace the $1,000,000,000 excise tax lashing measure that Congress has put aside. President Truman gave notice yesterday he will ask for more taxes—he didn't say just when—to help finance the extra $10,000,000,- 200 needed for the battle against Ccmmunist aggression, to curb in- flation, and to eliminate profiteer- ing. His use of the word “profiteering” {was interpereted in Congress as meaning he is certain to ask for an excess profits tax. If the war- time 85.5 per cent rate and base for calculating such profits were restored, they would yield the gov-, ernment about $8,000,000.000, one expert said. Bristol Bay Is Closed After 13 Fishing Days; \One irea Sfill Open Afte. only a few hours more than 13 days fishing time, three areas of Bristol Bay were closed to fishing last night by the Fish and Wildlife Service. Three areas were affected by the order, brought about by insufficient escapement to the upstream spawn- ing grounds and a poor run gener- ally. Only area.not affected is that in Ugashik, where two canneries op- erated by Leémuel G. Wingard will go on until July 28, according .to present plans, However, Wingard may find hlm- self deluged with boats coming in from the closed areas, and his stream may have to close much earlier than that. The three closed areas, with esti- mated times they had for fishing, Nushagak, 13 days, 2 hours; Naknek, 13 days, 9 hours. The season opened for the three areas on June 25, less than a month ago. The area now remaining open didn’t get started until June 28. The Bay's run this year, which | packed 567,392 cases up to July 15, |and expected to touch perhaps| 600,000 cases when the final fig- ures are in, has been poor, operators have said. Frank Hynes, fisheries supervisor for the Fish and Wildlife Service, | said he was informed by one op- erator that between July 4 and 6 a sharp run was experienced, but | before and since “it has dropped to zero.” The areas would ordinarily stay open until around July 25. This early closure is heped to bring escapement up to around 500,00u fish, according to an estimate by C. Howard Baltzo, assistant regionai director of the service. If this occurs, Baltzo said, it will mean an extremely healthy run when the 1950 cycle repeats itselt five years hence. The closure is in effect until 6 am. August 3, when the sockeye run disappears, and dogs and other lower grade salmon appear in the streams. Closures varied in each area be- cause of the added number of boats working out of each cannery, Hynes explained. Week end closures of | 36 hours and mid-week closures of 24 hours were in effect in each re- | gardless of conditions, but these were lengthened from time to time because of heavy catches. In some areas, 12 minutes extra closing was tacked on for each boat, and in other areas, 20 minutes extra was placed into effeot. This ex- plains the difference in length of each area’s fishing time. The Egegik area had the most vessels, and hence had the shortest fishing hours. | MONTANANS VISIT William Weneapaw and Tom Styles of Grand Falls, Mont., are registered at the Baranof Hotel. Another Montanan there is C. R. Vose of Big Timber. WORKERS, ALASKA CANNERIES, START T0 VOTE FRIDAY SEATTLE, July 20—(®—The pol- ling place for an election among 3,000 non-resident Alaska salmon cannery workers will be opened to- morrow at 607 First Ave. Julius N. Draznin, National Labor Relations Board field examiner who is in charge of the election, said the polling place also will be open Saturday and Sunday. An election was ordered by the NLRB -to determine which of three unions will have the right to rep- resent the non-resident workers. The workers will vote.as they re- turn to Seattle from Alaska and are paid off for the the season’s work. Voters will have a choice be- tween the Alaska Fish Cannery Workers Union (AFL), Local 7-C, International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union (CIO); Lo- cal 77, United Packinghouse Work- ers Union (CIO) or no union. First workers returning from Al- aska are from the Bristol Bay area. Some 300 have been employed this year in that district. Workers will return from other areas later and the election will continue until late in September. The three unions have been vaging a vigorous campaign to win votes among the workers, who Jfor- | merly were represented by the | Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers, a union expellet! rom the CIO. MOBI[IZMION PROGRAM GIVEN BY PRESIDENT| (By the Associated Press) President Truman’s mobilization | program in brief: Actions Taken Armed forces authorized to order up reserves and:National Guard as needed. FHA and VA home fmnnclng curbed. Government agencies ordered to trim non-war spending. Proposals Pending in Congress New for military spending. Removal of all limits on strength | of Army, Navy and Air Force. Controls over installment buying, commodity trading, private housing credit. Power to allocate materials, limit civilian goods output. Soon to go to Congress “Substantial” tax boost, Increased foreign military aid '|and U.S. stockpiling speed-up. For the Future If needed, a request for price controls and consumer rationing. COUNCIL TO ANNOUNCE STARTING DATE FOR TAX | A starting date for collection o the Juneau sales tax will. définitely | be announced at the regular meet- ing of the City Council tomorrow | night at 8 o'clock in the City Hall, Mayor Waino Hendrickson said to- | jay. Further work will be done on sales tax rules and regulations by the council, and committee reports will also be given. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK; July 20 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 93, Anaconda 32'%, Curtiss-Wright 10, International Harvester 27%, Kennecott 597, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 15%, U, S.| Steel 357%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 3,160,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 207.73, rails 58.77, utilities 38.39. R. L. Reed of Seattle and W. V. Hanley of San Francisco are guests at the Baranof Hotel. Both are with Standard Oil Company. SEATTLEITES HERE Among Seattleites at the Baranof Hotel are Don E. McMorran, Haakon B. Friele, Ralph A. Johan- | sen, B. L. Davis and Clarice Ring FROM YAKUTAT Mr. and Mrs. Earl F. Olsendahl and Roberta,"of Yakutat, are at the Baranof Hotel. GEN. DEAN " ABSENT" Unknown at American Command Post By WILLIAM R. MOORE AN AMERICAN COMMAND ‘The whereabouts of Gen. William F. Dean, whose 24th Division was withdrawing from Taejon, was nn- known tonight. “I don't know where General Dean is,” said a headquarters| spokesman. “That does not mean that he is missing.” | The big, fighting General been at the front all day. At one ers during the battle had knocked out eight of 10 North Korean tanks | with 35 inch rocket launchers. The spokesman said at 9:20 p.m. | (6:20 a.m., EST) that about 50 per- cent of the American units in the Taejon area “succeeded in making a fairly orderly withdrawal.” One gun position may have been “cut up rather badly,” he said. In addition to the eight Red tanks hit by the 35 inch ground-fired rockets, air strike reports showed that Allied planes knocked out five ! more in the “outlying approaches” to Taejon. up near the command post of the 34th Infantry Regiment and was “firing in all directions when some- on~ went up to the roof of the com- AT FRONT Whereabouts of Fighter Is POST IN KOREA, July 20—M—| has, One of the eight tanks had pulled | $10,000,000,000 authorization | includ- | ing income and excess profits tax.| ménd post and knocked it out with & a rocket,” the Army officer said. INDIANS CONDEMN U. S.; "RED TRUIMPH' {ASSERTS ONE PAPER Refusal fo Accept Nehru's| i "Peace Move" by Acheson Resented NEW DELHI, India, July 20—®— | India’s press today almost unani-| | mously condemned the U.S. refusal to follow Prime Minister Nehru’s recommendations for peace in Ko- rea. Nehru meanwhile turned his at-! tention to pressing troubles in his| | own backyard—India’s two-year-old' | dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir. | IPakistan's Prime Minister Liaquat' | Ala Khan was due in New Delhi to- |day for conferences on Kashmir | | with Nehru and United Nauons; \ mediator Sir Owen Dixon. The local press, concluded, that| ‘pubncauon of Nehru’s correspon- \dence with Generalissimo Stalin 'and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson meant the Indian leader’s | Korean peace efforts had ended. A Foreign Office spokesman declined to comment on this possibility. Stalin had agreed with Nehru | that Communist China should be | admitted to the United Nations; Security Council as a step toward1 a Korean peace. Acheson said the | US. felt the Korean and Chinese | | questions should be settled separ- WESTERN EUROPE ASTONISHED OVER PRESIDENT'S CALL | rea. | definite proposals 'Marine Reserve Ground NEXTMOVE IS NOW UP T0 SOVIETS| Presudent Puts Squarely | Up fo Russia Decision, World War Il (By Associated Press) Congress reacted swiftly to Presi- dent Truman’s call to arms in the ‘hght against Communism, although | some balked at the economic con- trols he proposed yesterday in his proposal of a $10,000,000,000 mobili- zation program. The President put squarely up to the Soviet Union the decision whether the Korean war will expand into World War III. Diplomatic observers said the next move is up to Moscow. | The Soviet Union repeated today that American and British demands | for withdrawal of the North Ko- reans to the 38th parallel should be discussed by the United Nations Security Council, presumably with Communist China as a member. | This is Russia’s price for negoti- ting a peaceful settlement in Ko- The rock-bottom American | condition for negotiations is the | withdrawal first of the 'North Ko- reans. SHARP SLAP GIVEN " RUSSIA BY BRITISH ABOUT PEACE TALKS (By Associated Press) Britain has delivered a sharp new slap at Russia. A London Foreign time he was seen out with a tank- | destroying squad. His ground fight- | | Office spokesman has accused Mos- cow of giving a false impression of | British-Soviet peace talks on Ko- rea. The London government official | explained that he could not give details, however, without revealing more about the peace talks than he |is authorized to disclose. The Soviet news agency Tass cir- culated its description of the peace conversations today. It quoted Britin as saying the British were bound by the U.N. Security Coun- cil's Korean resolution and, conse- quently, could not put forward any for ending the Korean conflict. In giving its version of the talks, Tass omitted important background facts. The London Foreign Office spokesman made it clear that omis- sion of the background data gave the Soviet story a wrong twist. | ately. | The Indian News Chronicle| termed Acheson’s reply “another (By Associated Press) diplomatic triumph for Commun- ism.” e e o 0 0o 0 0o 0 | WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 54; minimum, 50. At Airport—Maximum, 55; minimum, 51. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Continued cloudy with show- ers; little change in tem- perature tonight and Friday. Lowest temperature tonight near 50, with highest Friday 56 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—021 inches; since July 1—5.38 inches. At Airport — 0.02 inches; since July 31-—-3.93 inches. Western Europe hailed President Truman’s mobilization call as an historic move in the fight against Communist aggression, and many in Europe expressed astonishment at the broad sweep of the President's program. The Communist press, nppurenuy still awaiting direction from Mos- cow as it does in most major issues, commented cautiously. EXAMINATIONS BY MERIT SYSTEM 10 BE HELD SATURDAY Approximately 70 persons are scheduled to take the Alaska Merit System examinations for Senior Clerk-Typist and Senior Clerk- Stenographer on Saturday morning, July 22! Examinations are being given in the high schools in Fair- banks, Anchorage, Ketchikan and Juneau. Units Are Being (alled To Adive Duty at Once \VAh“[N(-l()N. July 20 — @ The Marine Corps announced today that “all organized Marine Reserve ground units are being called to active duty.” The Navy said it was calling “several” air reserve units to .lC[l\'e duty. These first calls was preparing to send additional regular troops to Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur’s Far Eastern Command. The Marines first announced that all organized ground reserve forces had been notified to be prepared to go on active duty on 10 days’ notice. Later, a spokesman said: “The call to active duty is now going out to all ground reserve units.” He said that for “security rea- sons” it would not be possible, at least for the time being, to give out a list of units or other information, including the “call up” date for each unit. Army Plans The Army announced that it has alerted combat and supporting | units from each of the six con- tinental Army areas for movement in the near future to the Far East. These are Regular Army troops. The Navy said it could not an- nounce the reserve air units called to duty, the number of men, or the designation of their units. Similarly, an Army spokesman said there would be no elaboration as to the numbers or designations of the units it has alerted for move- ment to the Far East. Army Statement The Army statement said: “Sev- eral combat and supporting units from each of the six Army areas, in addition to these previously ans nounced, have been alerted’ for movement in the near future to the Far East Command.” The six Army Commanders have their headquarters at the following .________—_—_.___._. points: ‘1st Army, Governors Is-| land, N.Y.; 2nd Army, Ft. Meade, Md.; 3rd Army, Ft. McPherson, near Atlanta, Ga.; 4th Army, Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Tex.; 5th Army, Chicago and 6th Army, San Franc! Navy Recalling The Navy statement said, Navy is recalling several units of the organized air reserve to active duty immediately.” A briefing officer said that the selected units. He emphasized that this was not a “warning or alert,” but ‘a formal recall to immediate active duty. ‘The Navy air reserve is organized | around 27 air stations and includes more than 350 fully organized squad- rons. These units are organized into fighter, attack, patrol, transport, cqmposite. and lighter-than-air squadrons, . LEOPOLD IS VOTED BACK 10 THRONE e e ————— Leopold IIT was voted back to his throne by the Belgian Parliament today. He has been in exile in Switzer- land since the war. The question of bringing him back split Belgium badly for months, with the Social- ists particularly being bitterly op- posed to his return. A joint session of both Houses of Parliament, cast 198 votes for Leopold’s return, with and Communists abstaining in pro- Houses. end the regency of Pringe Charles, Leopold’s brother. FROM KETCHIKAN E. B. Whitmash of Polar Fish- eries, Inc., Ketchikan, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. PELICAN VISITORS ‘Winifred Lindsey and Mrs. H. C. Meggett of Pelican are stopping at the Baranof Hotel. —_— e ——— . to the reserve | came as the Army made known it “The | ‘'orders had already gone out to the | BRUSSELS, July: 20—M-King affirmative | most opposition Socialists, Liberals | test. There are 387 members in both | The decision was on legislation to | NEW CAPITAL WRITTEN OFF; VALLEY AFIRE /| First PhaseFSiruggle Is Over - Bad Morale in Communist Forces (By the Associated Press) The Communists hurled a strong offensive into Taejon today and the U.S. 24th Division was reported withdrawing in heavy fighting from the flaming key rail and highway Junction in South Korea. A broadcast by NBC from Tokyo said Taejon already had fallen. A U.S. Eighth Army spokesman said the hard-pressed 24th Division still held the city at the end of the day's fighting, but a dispatch from a com- mand post said the division was on its way out. By 9:20 p.m., Korean time, a spokesman said, 50 percent of American units in the Taejon area “succeeded in making a fairly orderly withdrawal.” The Americans apparently were | falling back to the Kumchon area where a new stand will be made. But despite the retreat—it had been predicted — Gen. MacArthur an- nounced that the North Korean al- ready had lost their “one great | chance” for victory by failing to flatten South Korea before the ar- rival of the Americans in strength. Two fresh American divisions now are protecting the approaches to Kumchon against a Communist push in the east coast and central .ectors. Alrmen repcrud heavy Red soneent t,k;m ,y,mu m aradls ery m Reds Wrap Defenders The Communists threw an en- veloping movement around the west flank of the defending forces in the Taejon area, stabbing out from captured Iri%o take Chonju, roughly 40 air miles southwest of Taejon. Allied airmen raked the Commun- ists in this area. The Red strength there is unknown. Fire bombs rained on Kumje, near Chonju. The Communist.drive in the Tae- jon area, backed by tremendous artillery fire which ignited the whole city, was dented by the new | American ground rockets. Ground forces knocked out 11 enemy tanks in the area in 24 hours. | Valley Afire | The ‘whole Taejon valley area iwas alive with fire as Red artillery boomed and Alled planes merci- lcssly pasted the enemy. Taejon, ! from which. the South Ki pro- ‘vmon government has' fled, has | been virtually written off for sev- {El’dl days. | It was the first Communist at- tack in force on the bloody Kum |river front since the invaders won | their foothold on the south bank. On the east coast, Yongdok, taken | by the Reds yesterday, also was in flames from the mauling fire of Allied warships and planes. Yong- dok is 25 miles north of the expand- ing beachhead at Pohang where the mechanized First Cavalry Division landed. South Korean troops mounted an attack in the Yongdok sector. In the central sector Allied fighter bombers hit two Red tanks in a column between Tangyang and Hamchang which has been pushing in the direction of Kumchon astride American supply lines to Taejon. The First Cavalry and the 25th Infantry—the latter already has tasted battle—swung into position eastern side of the Korean penin- sula. 50 Planes Destroyed Behind the fronts Allied carrier land land based planes caught the | (Continued on Page Eigh-n STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Prince George from Vancuover scheduled to arrive tomorrow after- | noon. Princess Norah from Vancouver | scheduled to arrive Saturday after- noon. Alaska from Seattle scheduled to arrive Sunday. ‘ Chilcotin scheduled to sail from Vancouver tonight. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. | Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Aleutian from westward due southbound Sunday. | for expected Red pushes down the,