The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 28, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS} —_——— — _— o \. EMPIRE VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,566 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e Bigges PAVING T0 AUK BAY, THANE, DOUGLAS TO BEGIN IN SHORT TIME Road fo Fish Creek, 612 Miles, Will Be Built on Douglas Island The first extension of a road in| the Juneau area for 10 years was promised today as plans were re- vealed for construction of a high-| way north of Douglas Island to Fish Creek. | The six and one-half mile road will open up a tremendous area for | homesites and give access to town| for those already living in scattered settlements in the vicinity. The widening and paving of the Glacier Highway from the airport| to Auk Bay, plus paving of the Thane and Douglas roads, both| widened last year, is also planned. This work may begin this season, it was believed. i The three big projects will cost some $2,500,000. | For two years the Bureau of Pub- | lic Roads and the Forest Service have been attempting to obtain a special appropriation from Congress for the modernization and extension of roads around Juneau, Ketchikan and Sitka, in addition to their reg- ular appropriation granted for for- est highways. (® Wirephoto. | Regional Forester B. Frank Heint- t Red D Tank Assembly Lin | | i zleman, along with Delegate Bob Bartlett and Bureau of Public Roads | | representatives appeared this spring | before the Senate public works com- | mittee to testify on the need for a; 5 J improvements. | : . . . Fund Authorised Memorial Services in Fair- when the committee recommended Danks with Burial in | authorization of the sum. Appro-| awaited before bids can be let and | | the work begin. | | en FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 28—# % —Final rites were being arranged | jod beginning this fiscal year,| | g | Heintzleman explained. | today for Austin E. “Cap” Lathrop. | tion of $1,500,000 for roads in forest areas has been upped this year arbitrary limits set for 10 years on the amount of money which could Federal highways appropriations have always been made in a lump| $7,252,000 fund to make the wnnted; | Their efforts bore fruit last week | priation of the money must be| Sea"le la'er The money is for a two-year per-E | The Bureau's regular appropria-| Memorial $300,000, as Congress removed the come to Alaska. sum for the whole nation, with a formula for each section applied so | that certain amounts went to each trea. The formula held road money | services for the mil- | lionaire businessman and indus- ‘rmali.st‘ who was struck down Wed- Inesday by a loaded coal car at his | Healy River mine, will be held here Sunday in the Empress Thea- | ter, one of five show houses which ihe owned in the Territory. Burial will be in the Forest Lawn Cemetery at Seattle Thursday, fol- lowing services at the Bonney Wat- !son Funeral Home, As stipulated {in his will, Lathrop ‘will be In- | terred alongside his father, mother General view made inside the Detroit Arsenal where current production 45-ton M-46 tank (General Patton) runs at the rate of around a dozen a day. the Army is negotiating with the Cadillac division of General Motors for mass production of tanks. [4 - of the 25-ton M-24 tank and the It was annnounced that Arniy Plans Increase of 240,000 Men More than 1% Billion fo| Be Spent on-Tanks, Guns and Other "Hardware’ WASHINGTON, July 2¢ — The Army plans to step up its strength to 834,000, an increase of 240,000 officers and men over the 594,000 now in uniform, Rep. Vin- son (D-Ga) announced today. The. increase is planned under President Truman's additional emergency budget request of $10,- 500,000,000 for fiscal 1951. Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, told the committee that ¢he Army wants $3,059,164,000. Of this amount, 54 percent or $1,651,000,000 will be spent for tanks, "SHOOT FIRST” RICHARDSON GUARDS TOLD Unidenfified Trespassers Fiee to Woods when | Challenged af Fort | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 28— (M—Security guards at Fort Rich- ardson have orders to shgot necessary to halt trespassers found | wandering in restricted areas, Post Commander Brig. Gen. Donald R.; Hutchinson said today. Hutchinson reported several in- stances recently where unidentified persons have been seen fleeing into \the woods near aircraft dispersal | units when challenged by guards. The general announced plans to tighten security throughout Fort | Richardson and the Elmendorf Air | | Force Base at a wing staff meeting yesterday. He shifted new personnel into| | The Senate today tentatively :\p-i SENATE IS DEBATING BIG FUNDS Tentatively Approves Ap-€ propraition for National | Defense, Other Measures | WASHINGTON, July 28 — (B —| proved a $13,294,581,821 national de-| fense appropriation for the year which began July 1. The action, by a series of voice votes, does not cover the additional | $10,500,000,000 in emergency mili- tary funds President Truman asked only last Monday. ‘That request will be taken up later | in a separate bill. | Approval of the regular defense item came as the Senate Democratic leadership urged a speed-up in de- bate to permit a final vote early| next week on the $34,688,000,000 “single package” appropriations bill. | The catch-all measure carries funds for operation of most gov-| ernment agencies during the current | fiscal year. 1 The defense section of the bill was approved without any major | | change in the amount approved by | | the Senate Appropriations Commit-| tee. The bill as it passed the House | included $12,910,702,300 in defense | money. i Senate debate on the big measure has dragged along without much | cutting. i That prompted Senator Douglas | National President and Don Eck, Association (both pictured above) ! Aboard the steamer Alaska due here today are Cliff Kaynor, new Manager of the National Editorial who are making advance arrange- ments for one of the largest convention delegations ever to tour Alaska. The delegates to the NEA convention plan the tour to the Territory next year and it is a cinch that every editor and publisher who can find the time will be on the trip. Kaynor, publisher of the | (D-1) to say today he is “damned | giscouraged” at results of his efforts | Ellensburg, Wash., Record, and Eck, have been to the interior and westward making arrangements for the tour party which has chart- ered the Aleutian for the 1951 trip. ta trim non-defense spending. ] | CANADA MUST KEEP RUSS REENTRY INTO HER FIGHTER CRAFT, y. N. COUNCIL HAS WAGE, PRICE CONTROLS GET i SAYS KIWANIS HEAD 'EM ALL GUESSING CHICAGO, July 28—#—The Can- adian president-elect of Kiwanis International said yesterday “Can- | ada fighter planes must be kept | in Canada to guard against any possible Russian attack via Alaska | and the Northwest territories.” | Don H. Murdock of Winnipeg, in | talk prepared for the Kiwanis Club of Chicago, said “It would be | folly” for all free nations to send | troops to Korea, He sald he has| reason to believe this view is shared United Nations on Regarding Import- ance of Decision LAKE SUCCESS, July 28—(M— diplomats were sharply divided today on the ques- tion: was Russia’s decision to end|Considerable support built | Baruch Fian Gathers Back- ers-Store Sales Zoom- Sugar Supply High !Diplomais Sh;ply Dividedil 0 p SI:'PPORT; rive Of Korean War Opens Tour Planners Come Here 90,000 MEN 'RIPINTOU.S. - ALONG FRONT Russ Pose Riddle on Re- eniry Into Council-New Moves Contemplated | (By the Associated Press) Nine divisions of Communist troops—possibly 90,000 men—opened | a general offensive all along the twisting 200-mile Korean front to- day. And while the war entered a decisive stage, Russia decided to end her boycott of the United Nations, | raising speculation over new Com- \munist moves in the world-wide cold war. The fighting blazed flercely on the central sector of the Korean front, where the Reds, attacking in the rain under cover of a fearful artillery barrage, smashed behind tanks into lines held by the U.S. First Cavalry Division. The First Cavalry gave some | ground, Gen. MacArthur's head- | quarters announced, and then held | its positions in a “savage fire fight.” “At least three enemy divisions are now engaged in a determined effort to overwhelm locally inferior | United States troops in the west central sector,” the summary said. Defenders are reported outnum- | bered four to one. MacArthur's headquarters said | the Communists had launched what appeared to be their supreme effort | to smash-the Bnited Nations' supply { lines and win a quick dectsion in the battle to drive U.N. forces from their beachhead. The nine Red di- ! visions in the fleld represented the | largest Red force yet to be com- | mitted by the Communists. | A Red force of about 800 men | smashed a wedge between the Sixth | South Korean Division and U.S. 26th Infantry Division on the northwest flank of the U.S. First Zavalry. Big Guns Open Up Air reconnaissance reports said | the Reds were moving troops into | position against two U.S. regiments lin the sector northeast of Yongdong, | where the battle is fiercest. There | the Communists took off from the | blackness of down under one of the WASHINGTON, July 28 — P — | heaviest Red artillery barrages of up in |the war. A U.S. counterattack to here to the million and a half sum| X o slsters. for the past three years, but with| 7 | The body will be flown o Seattle. this bar removed, Alaska gamed[ Meanwhile, ‘as Tron her U.N. boycott just another step|Congress today for a drive to PUL | yelieve pressure on the advanced guns, field artillery and other|tne office of special investigation | _ in the cold war or an admission that ) the country under rationing and | forces got under way, but the action “hardware equipment.” oy Lester B. Pearson, Canadian | the boycott was a big mistake? $300,000 this year. The road to Fish Creek, around; the northeast corner of Douglas!' (Continued on Page Two) | The Washington| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyricht, 185, By Bell Syndicate, Ine.) /ASHINGTON—Our ex-Ambas- sador to Russia, Gen, Bedell Smith, | recently told a closed-door session | of the Senate foreign relations com- | mittee how a Soviet propaganda | film backfired. “The Russians are intensely in- terested in how the man in the small American town or city lives,” Gen. Smith told the senators. “The great Russian propaganda picture, telegrams | friends poured into the local offi- ces of the Lathrop Co., a coroner’s | jury sitting at the scene of Wed- nesday’s tragedy | dict of accidental death. ‘The inquest had been called by U. S. Commissioner Margaret Sulli- van of Nenana. William E. Martin, timekeeper at the mine, 112 miles south of here, said Lathrop either tripped or fell under the wheels of the loaded car. The bulk of the car hid the elderly, but active, man from the view of the brakeman, Martin said. The timekeeper said there were no witnesses to the accident but that the brakeman’s scream when he saw Lathrop’s body on the tracks brought him running from the mine office. Martin said he could find no pulse and telephoned Fairbanks returned a ver- for a doctor. ‘Rusky Vaprosk,’ which was a ter- rible indictment of American jour- nalism and foreign policy, played in 500 theatres simultaneously in the Soviet Union. But it lasted only two weeks in Moscow. “We had: American observers at the theatre almost every night. ‘The audience reaction was interest- ing. In one scene, the producer had accurately shown a tenement in the east' side of New York— what we would consider extremely poor housing. “To the Muscovite,” Smith con- tinued, “It was darn good housing, housing Russians would compete for. Between the tenement build- ings were clotheslines, and aud- jence reaction was, ‘My God, how many clothes they have! Look at them!'” General Smith smiled at this rec- ollection and went on: “Then the film showed the little Westchester bungalow of the downtrodden re- porter who was losing his job and ® ® © 0 0 o o o o WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum; 56; minimum, 48. At Airport—Maximum, 54; minimum, 45. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Cloudy with intermittent light rain tonight and Satur- day. Lowest temperature to- night about 50 degrees. High- est Saturday near 56. o! . o PRECIPITATION e (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ City of Juneau—0.07 inches; e since July 1—8.74 inches. ® At Airport — 0.09 inches; e since July 1—6.62 inches. . ae his wife because he had written something good about the Soviet Union. The audience was not in- (Continued on Page Four) " " a 5| | Vinson declined to give any arms; squadron. Personnel shifts ranged | e are in the front line if a details but it is understood that a considerable amount will be spent for tanks and guns, especially the | |and augmented the 57th Air Police | moreign Minister. | | | from gate guards to top intelligence | 1officers, 1 Three persons, arrested as un- | surprise attack comes from Russia,” e said. “Canada could not send troops to | new anti-aircraft gun, the Sky-|authorized visitors at the fort, were | €orea and leave herself wide open sweeper. Also appearing before the com- mittee were Maj. Gen. E. L. Ford, Chief of Army Ordinance, and Brig. Gen. Leslie Simon, Chief of Ord- nance Research. The session concluded a week- long inquiry by the committee into preparedness of the military services and their immediate plans for ex- oansion. X Asked if he was satisfied with re- ports from the Army, Navy, Ma- rines, and Air Forces, Vinson de- clined immediate comment. The Army already is slated to get 100,000 draftees by Oct. 30. This may be followed with at least one more draft call before the end of the year to reach the 834,000 man goal. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 28 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau*mine stock today is 2'2* American Can 92%, Anaconda 32 Curtiss- Wright 10%, International Harves- ter 287%, Kennecott 60, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 17%, U.S. Steel 36%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 2,050,000 shares.] couver due Saturday afternoon at| Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 208.21, rails ‘60.71, utilities 37.80. 1ICTH RESCUE PILOT ENROUTE TO DENVER 1st Lt. John S. Schifferer, a fre- quent visitor here while serving as pilot with the 10th Rescue Squad- ron, arrived yesterday in his own Howard aircraft. Schifferer is on a 44-day leave kefore reporting to Lowry Air Force FROM MT. EDGECUMBE |Base at Denver, Colo., where he Here from Mt. Edgecumbe are Dr.|has been transferred. He, is stay- and Mrs. F. L. Coddington and baby, jing at the Baranof Hotel, and plans lxind Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Geeslin. lto be here until Monday. Ifined a total of $225. Two of them | Iwere women. | The round-the-clock check on| isecurity caught one guard red-| ifaced. An OSI agent casually| asked the guard what time it was and, when the guard glanced away to see a nearby clock, the agent planted a wooden ' “bomb.” Not until the agent exposed the guard’s laxity some time later, was the| guard even aware of what hap- | pened. Meanwhile, military leaders said that next to the security problem, their biggest fear is of the effect the strike of the AFL plumbers’ union will have on the region’s military construction, They described as a “misstate- ment” a union contention that no military work has been delayed by the strike. The union went out on strike Wednesday to enforce a wage demand of $3.50 an hour, 50 cents fmore than at present, plus other contract conditions. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Kathleen | ! g Princess from Van- 3 o’'clock. Freighter Flemish Knot from Seattle scheduled to arrive Sunday. Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver tonight. Aleutian scheduled to sail from ,' Seattle Saturday. ! Princess Norah scheduled to sail { from Vancouver Saturday. I Chilcotin scheduled to sail from Vancouver Monday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver next Wednesday. Alaska from west scheduled to arrive at 5:30 this afternoon * southbound. Baranof scheduled southbound | from west at 5 p.m. Sunday. | or possible Russian air attacks wcross Alaska and the Northwest territories. BUT OFF THEY C McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash., July 28— (®— Royal Can- adian Air Force planes took off here last night for the Korean United Nations airlift. Col. T. Alan Bennett, command- int at McChord Base, would not disclose the number of planes in | the initial flight, or their destina- tion. Units of the squadron, containing 250 officers and men, began ar- riving here Wednesday. The question may be answered wage and price comtrol. The idea is to substitute full | was reported not to have developed lon as big a scale as originally or- Tuesday when the Russians return, | homefront mobilization for Pres- | goreq but meantime these lines of specu- Jation were heard at U.N. head- quarters: 1—Russia intends cil's Korean intervention and try | to block any further U.N. action. | approach in her fight to oust Na- tionalist China from the U.N. and | seat the Chinese Reds. | 3—Russia is merely coming back for a propaganda.blast and may re- |sume her walkout-boycott which was started last January in protest | against the presence of the Chinese | immediately he will take the fight | | Nationalists. | 4—Russia is getting ready for new | Communist moves either in the | Balkans or against Formosa and | wants to be on hand to veto any | council action. | AR RS . AT | | 5—Russia realizes she has made | a mistake and is coming back to | try to find a way to end the Ko- } rean conflict. { 3 | Al this, nowever, was. admittedly | i nothing more than speculation. | ‘{ US. Delegate Warren R. ‘Austin FRO“T Now,said he would not comment “until | |1 go to Vermont and consult an | | old apple tree.” | In Manila, Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, President of the General Assembly, (By Associated Press) B-29 Superfortresses rained de- | struction for the sixth consecutive day on North Korean communica- | tions behind the lines, although the bad flying weather hampered other air operations. The big bombers were meeting increased anti-air- craft opposition around marshalling yards, but they hit rail yards be- tween Pyongyang and Wonsan in| North Korea. The Air Force said| U.S. planes Thursday bagged three tanks, 27 trucks and miscellaneous | | other vehicles. council presidency in her regular | turn is proof the U.N. “cannot be | intimidated.” In Greenville, S.C., former Secre- tary of State James F. Byrnes also took an optimistic view. He said: (Continued on Page Five) ® o o o o o o o o TIDE TABLE JULY 29 High tide 1:33 am., 184 ft. said Rusia’s decision to assume the, fident Truman’'s limited economic control bill. The House banking committee to challenge { approved the- President’s plan, 20 | the legality of the Security Coun-|to 1, late yesterday, but only after | it failed by a one-vote margin to take instead the all-out economic statesman Bernard M. Baruch. The Baruch plan lost 10 to 9. Six Republicans and three Democrats supported it. Nine Democrats and one Republican opposed it. Rep. Kunkel (R-Pa.) author of the all-out substitute, announced to the House floor when the bill comes up there next Tuesday. Kis measure would roll back prices to their lowest level between July 24 and 28. Powerful support gathered be- hind the Baruch plan. One high- placed Democrat said it might pass the House. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.) of the House armed services committee said “I am for the Baruch plan Otherwise there will be inflation, absolutely out of control.” Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Board reported that department j store sales last week ran 46 per /cent higher than in the same week year. Never before has such increase been recorded. %chk before last the increase over per cent. | Also, the Agriculture Department isaid that sugar sales by primary ! distributors jumped 37 per cent i1n the first three weeks of July as | compared with the same 1949 per- iod. The department announced that, while there is already plenty of sugar, the government will buy remaining Cuban stocks. It safd 1949's corresponding week was 25| | The American counterattack was | thrown at the Reds in the pouring | rain, Pressure was intensified on the | east coast near ,Yongdok, where ™ | Allied Naval forces continued “sats uration” shelling with what were de- 2—Russia intends to try a new|control plan proposed by elder] ¢ribed ag effective resuls. | " ‘Washington an Army spokes- * | man said the Communists now are |in a position “where they want to | make a big effort as long as they ihave anything left,” and are prob- ably throwing their full strength along the line and at the front.” This would be aimed at seeking a | decision before U.S. strength builds | up, but the spokesman said it would ;he too optimistic to call the offen- | “(Continued on Page Two) NO REASON 'NO DESPAIR, MacARTHUR WASHINGTON, July 28 — ® — | An Army spokesman said today that information from Gen. Mac- Arthur’s headquarters indicates | there is no reason to despair—*“that we are not going to be thrown” out of Korea. | The spokesman told reporters at | a Pentagon briefing: “I think that in the next week or two weeks we will know more about it.” | The officer's statement was made in reply to a reporter who said the Low tide 8:09 am, -33 ft. this will give the U. S. a total | people are wondering about the op- High tide 14:3¢4 p.m., 164 ft. Low tide 20:17 pm., 18 ft. FROM PORTLAND V. A. Sheetz of Portland, Ore., is at the Baranof Hotel, marketable supply of more than 8,450,000 tons-—largest ever in any one calendar year. - {timism evidenced at the Pentagon. | ‘The spokesman said this optimism reflects that of General MacArthur,