The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 2, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,570 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Bloody Counterblow Struck WEATHER KEEPS 10TH RESCUEFROM GRIM MISSION Col. Bernt Balchen Aids Operation for Crash Plane Occupants Weather—in particular, a bad overcast in the rugged Fairweather | Range — again conspired today to! prevent take-off from Juneau of U.S. Air Force aircraft to remove the six occupants of the Air Force C-54 | which crashed high on Mount Cril- lon Saturday. It was late Monday afternoon be- fore a searching B-17 from Elmen- dorf AF Base spotted the airplane wreckage at about the 9,000-foot level on the southwest slope of the 12,727-foot peak. Tenth Air Rescue crews of the ski-equipped C-47 al- ready here and of the C-54 and C-47 which came in Monday night restlessly waited all day yesterday, hoping to fly a trail crew, a para- troop doctor, medical and surgical supplies to the crash scene, or to get near enough for approach by foot. Famed Arctic Flyer Col. Bernt Balchen brought another aircraft in at 5:30 p.n. yesterday. He had hoped to take the ski-plane on a reconnaissance flight today, termine the feasibility of landing a trail crew on Brady Glacier. Among | the expert mountaineers to accom- pany the party is Maynard Miller, field director of the Juneau Ice Re- search Project, who came in from a Juneau Ice Cap base Sunday. After checking the weather peri- odically since early morning, Colonel Balchen said at press time (3 p.m.) this afterncon, that there seemed no chance of making a flight today. Colonel Balchen, subject of “Hitch Your Wagon,” a book. pub- lished this year, has commanded the 10th Air Rescue Squadron since November, 1948. He recently w named special assistant on all Arc- tic activities to the commanding general, Alaskan Air Command. ‘While waiting for a weather break, 10th Rescue pilots have been busy in preparation for their grim! flight into the treacherous moun- tainous country of Mount Crillon. Yesterday afternoon, they were given special assistance by the U.S. Forest Service in studying the ter- rain, ‘With plotters and stereoscopes, they and the Forest Service experts went carefully over aerial photo- graphs to get details of topography, and the pilots left with several of the photographs for their use. Meantime, Maynard Miller and others were assembling extra moun- taineering gear stored in the Forest Service warehouse for the JIRP ex- peditioft. The Washington Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON Copyright, 195a. py Bell Syndicate, Inc.) WSHINGTON — A new super- tank will soon be ready for Korean action, that is the fastest, dead- liest, and best-armored in the world. Military leaders say it represents as great an advance in ground attack as the jet plane in the air. They also predict it will be vastly superior to the massive Russian tanks being used by the North Koreans. This information was given to a closed-door meeting of the House armed services committee by Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff. tank, already in production, will outspeed and outmaneuver any en- emy tank -it" comes up. against. Furthermore, "it will not only be equipped with weapons capable of “destroying any other tank,” in- cluding the Russian Goliath, Col- lins told the committee, but it will have better armor to resist enemy fire. “In all departments, it is by far the best tank ever produced,” Col- lins declared. Somewhat smaller than the Rus- slan opposite number, it also is less expensive to build, the chief of staff added. Chiet defects of the Russian tank " (Continued on Page Four) Squadron | to de-| INAMES OF THOSE KILLED IN CRASH OF PLANE GIVEN' ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Aug. 2— A—The names of five crewmen |and a military passenger aboard a C-5¢ wrecked on Mt. Crillon, 90 | miles west of Juneau, were an- ‘nu\lncnd by Elmendorf Air Force Base officers today. A sixth crewman, Corp. Gabriel Bakus, of the 54th Troop Carrier | Squadron, McChord Air Force Base, | Tacoma, Wash., missed the plane Saturday because he was in a bus | which had an accident en route to McChord from Tacoma, He was | the plane’s radio operator. Lieut. William Edward Reese, 23, rilot, son of Ernest Woodsen Reese, Thomson, Ga. Capt. Eugene Trafton Sewall, 31, co-pilot, husband of Mrs. E. T.| Sewall, 189 Graham St., Biddleford, Me. Corp. Robert, Eugene Weber, 20, crew chief, son of Mrs. Charles E. Griffin, Rte. 3, Faribault, Minn. §-Sgt. Francis Vincent Toomey, ‘Mary E. Toomey, a. S-Sgt. Blaine Joseph Vanhille, 25, crew member, husband of Mrs. Patricia Ann Vanhille, Anchorage. Anchorage, Al- The crew members were all from the 54th Troop Carrier Squadron wlth their home base at Elmendorf. Those aboard the wrecked plane: | | 30, flight engineer, husband of Mrs. | Lieut. Rohkert Carol Reish, dge | unknown, son of Mrs. Hallie Blanche Reish, 204 Park Drive, | Allegan, Mich. Lieutenant Reish | was a passenger. He was a mem- | ber of the 375th Reconnaissance | Squadron, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. ARMY ASKS $45 MILLION FOR ALASKA WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—(#—The Army, Navy and Air Force have asked for $330,000,000 cash so they can start immediately on “top pri- o projects, the House military appropriations subcommittee dis- closed yesterday. More than half of $95,473,000 re- | quested by the Army would be spent in Alaska, Another $18,033,459 has been | r projects in Washington The largest of this latter group |is $6,476,459 for housing and con- | struction of operational and tact- ical buildings at Hanford atomic i plant. Other sums asked include: Spokane Air Force Base, ,racks and other | €00, Mo bar- es Lake Air Force Base, hos- pi barracks and general build- ings, $3,987,000. Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, build up sta‘ion for Army trcops intended for defense of largest - | bomber base In Alaska, $8,741,000. Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska, | build up station for !fend most to troops to de- northern bomber and fighter base, $11,352,000. Fort Richardson, Alaska, to build up station for troops to defend Elmendorf Air Force Base, also the Army's Alaskan nerve center, $35,205,345. SPECULATION IS CHARGE NOW MADE buildings, $4,570,- | | | | | i | | | | | Kumchon itself lies on the west- ern side of the stream and it is like having a bleacher seat in hell | g to see it from a plane circling at 500 feet. The entire western water- ' \ I l Red Invaders: « el | By HAL BOYLE IN A US. 5TH AIR FORCE congfeSS works on Ra' Aug. 2 — (® — Leaping t,owers of‘ orange flame are burning out . the H hoarding Measures as invading North Korean Reds | storm into one end of the city and| WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—(@®—The | Capture of this vital rail and road | approved, 12 to 1, the general policy | center puts the swarming North Ko- |0f granting President Truman | vital highway and rail junction, and |Price and rationing controls. | only 90 air miles from the main| Chairman Maybank (D-SC) told It is now 8:18 p.n. (5:18 a.m., |0 action yet on any specific bill. | EST) and American engineers have | “We just approved the general way bridge on the eastern side of | The vote means, however, that | the Kachon river, a tributary of |Standby wage-price controls will be | |the committee unless there is a| compete reversal of sentiment. bill and has voted for prison | |sentences and up to $10,000 fines | InFiery Wa r‘ heart of ancient Kumchon tonight | American troops pull out the other. |Senate banking committee today | | reans within 30 miles of Taegu, | Standby power to put on wage, American supply port of Pusan, | reporters the committee had taken | just blown up both spans of a rail- |Principle,” Maybank said. [ the Naktong. ‘m the bill finally approved by The group is hammering together | {for hoarders and black marketeers. By U. S. Forces Where Reds Gain EANE e SOUTH KOREA uuon "ls.w o, KUMCNON \ front is burning—about 500 yards .or more of solid flame and billowing . In the House, administration men‘ offered a new bill wrapping up the | black smoke. powers President Truman has asked | The red and orange tongues lick | plus standby wage and price con- skyward at least 100 feet. In the | trol authority. | northeast quarter of the city an-| Then they discovered that hix; other area erupts like a vast fur-!lines had been omitted in Lhe} nace door suddenly opened. printed version. | As the spans of the railway bridge Voting Delayed | explode in a cloud of gray dust and | Republican leaders and some | . drop heavily into the water, an|Democrats demanded that all vot- | American vehicle speeds out of the ing be put off until tomorrow. It murky pile of the city. It rolls swiftly | was agreed then to take votes to- 1 across an adjoining highway bridge morrow on amendments to the bill | to safety. but delay a final vote on the fin- | i Kumchon is only another of the, ished version until Friday. ! | Q STATUTE MILES 50 | e Solid arrows locate Communist drives in the active sectors of the battle front (broken line) in South Korea. American and South Korean defenders (open arrows) sought to brace their lines, but in the south the Reds captured Chinju, 55 air miles from Pusan. In the center the pressure was on Kumchon after the Reds took Kochang and drove north to Chirye. Farther north the Communists have been held in check between Kumchon and Hamchang. (P Wiirephoto Map). )many cities that have fallen to the | Democratic leaders put before the | General Collins testified that the British B Back U. 5. on Korea, BY SECY. BRANNAN ‘1etm) of Agrlcultme Brannan to- | " | U N 0ues"on;m ki dak o bbais ot ey | L] L] | ing to cash in even at the cxpense of the nation’s economy and war ' LAKE $SUCCESS; Ang.'2 — (B — | 1ot Britaih supported the United States| Such “trading on the “3“0"5 oday in demanding that the ques- | futures market by a *“considerable” tion of seating Red China be!number of speculators, Brannan | pushed aside and that the Korean |Sdid, has contributed to recent | conflict be given top priority m;smm price advances. He called | | United Nations deliberations. { the speculation “excessive and un- | Britain’s Sir Gladwyn Jebb called | festrained” and said it is threaten- { Jebb spoke &s the 1l-nation|Statement, that some means must | Communists or on the Korean!| | surance to merchandisers and proc- Ister Jakob A. Malik back to the with ‘the other nations. | The council convened at 2:12‘ ADI“G longsho Malik, as August President of the ¥ e ‘gangn 8. slowing the The Alaska i tion,” after disposal of the Chinese| ¢ Alaska Steamship Company [ ‘a | gang. his own draft, but illi 5 = as wiline 1o five days each since the emergency. when the council adjourned last ! Back of the delay, ship owners tial ruling. | able dock workers. Even there, how= ever, some delays have been re- | ported. Art Olsen, Secretary-Treasurer of day accused profit-bent specuutms‘ It is obvious, he said in a formal | Company’s | loadings | which have a priority on all avail-| ]\'he Korean question the “grave ‘,mg the counm'y_‘_s economic stability | ind most important ever to con-|and the war effort. front the United Nations.” | Security Council resumed debate on | U€ set up to stop, or at least curb, | | whether it should .act first ,ml -xcessive speculation if the futurds| Russia’s move to seat the Chinese | Markets are to provide price n- conflict. OEsOrs, The British delegate said he wel- somed Soviet Deputy Foreign Min- ! SHORIAGE of MEN zouncil after his seven-month boy- | ott. He expressed hope this meant | lONGSHORE wonK Russia was now ready to cuoperate‘ o.m, EST. | The specific issue was adoptioni SEATTLE, Aug. 2—(®—. -A shortage | of an agenda. Russia’s Jakob A.| | of o fod! | departure of private ships from council, wanted Korea considered | o eqtle waterfront, ship owners second, under the heading ‘“peace- ‘sand here. iul settlement of the Korean ques- | : A | said it was 13 gangs short last night issue. ~Warren R. Austin, chief| ;g oypected g similar scarcity. of U. 8. delegate, insisted the agenua‘he]p today. There are 10 men to a be confined to a single item, g ~omp::1m of ageression upon the| =y company serving Alaska, Rerublic of Korea.” Malik refused i 4 : ... | Coastwise Line, said it has had two yesterda, ] e v fo withdraw or revise|q . ipier sailing delays of three to make the U. S. version an additional | Matson -Navigation item, 4 A That was, where the Pant steamer Hawailian Planter is two tex st00d | jays behind in its loading schedule. night, after defeating 8-3 Mality | ° T 4 | attempt to unseat the Chinese Na- | 3id: are military ship | tionalist delegation by a presiden- TWO BANDITS FLEE, hooded bandits were forced abandon three gold bricks worth $100,000 and their getaway car to- day when it burst in flames. They had stolen the gold from the office of the Coniaurum Mines Ltd. The fire-blackened car was found | about 25 miles from here hours after | the robbery. The bandits had trussed up Bill Edwards, the mine watch- man, while they broke into lhe | safe. TIMMONS, Ont., Aug. 2—(®—Two | to! Local 19, International Longshore- | men’s and Warehousemen’s Union (CIO), said he expected the shortage | to last another week. By then, he said, several hundred new men | screened by the union will have been cleared by the military and given work passes. | “It’s chiefly a problem of setting up the machinery to supply well- | balanced gangs,” Olsen said. “This| | means that each gang of new men| \musz have sufficient experienced | men to make an efficient and safe unit.” BROKER HERE | Ray Cavanaugh, Seattle broker, | | is at the Gastineau Hotel, | Communists in the last few days; House a substitute for the admMm- !as the big Red fist has squeezedusnauons original allocations and | ‘ughter in a desperate grab for an|credit control measure, The new immediate victory. | bill would give Mr. Truman power ito slap ceilings on wages and roll | !prices back to the levels of the| | May 24-June 24 period. ‘MI‘\INEAPOLIS Aug. 2 — A — A | Northwest Airlines Martin 2-0-2 \plane landed safely today after | |land|n Gear The new bill also would allow | | the President to order rationing. | | bill of their own, protested the| last-minute introduction of a new | bill also would provide for standby ! lands 20 0 K | wage and price controls. | | In other actions today : ’ 1. Presidént Truman sent tiie| asking it to hurry up consideration | of a bill to increase ‘taxes by| | circling Minneapolis for an hour and forty-five minutes because of | 2. Secretary of State Acheson, | at a news conference, opposed the | The plane, carrying 20 passen- | ; { - d rew of three, came to |31 appropriation bill yesterday. | gergang Authorizing a $100,000,000 Export- It was unable to land because the nose gear of the tricycle landmg! Republicans, rallying behind al : S'I(ks, p I I o I administration measure. The GOP; Other Emergency Action | Senate financing committee a letter | | $5,000,000,000. i {7 otterave UMER B | “rider” which the Senate put on| Minnespolis.. from “Porfland, Ore. Import Bank loan to Franco Spain, | gear would nqt come down. | i @ o 0o 06 06 0 0 0 0 o | ™ Northwest Alrlines flight control | o officials made plans for an emer-| ¢ WEATHER REPORT . { gency landing and several Min-| g neapolis fire department companies | o In Juneau—Maximum, 52; | |stood by. | ® minimum, 47. | | After several attempts to loosen \ e At Airport—Maximum, 53; [the nose wheel gear failed, pilot| e minimum, 46, | Cooney was instructed to s Ul-. | Jpflssengers and cargo weight to the : ° FORECAST o rear to make the plane tail-heavy.| o (Juneau and Vieinity) s Cooney brought the plane in and e Variable cloudiness tonight .\ landed it on the two main wheels| o ang Thursday. Lowest tem- ,1 {and the tail which has a reinforc- | o perature tonight about 50, e ing skid on the bottom. ® Warmer Thursday with high- | BISCER et o ® est temperature near 62 de- o | | ® grees. OVERALL SITUATION : i ® PRECI1PITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today IN KOREA REPORTED AS "IMPROVING", City of Juneau—0.67 inches; since August 1-—1.83 inches; since July 1—10.76 inches. At Airport — 052 inches; since August 1—0.62 inches; since July 1—7.66 inches, WASHINGTON, Aug. 1-—lR’i—vD(‘-j fense spokesmen today described | the overall Korean situation as| “improving.” ;' But brieting officers said : S‘IO(K 0“0]““0"‘ ‘sttuauon is “still serious, and any- |one would be foolish to indicate nytlie eiee | NEW YORK, Aug. 2 — Closing of They said late military reports | M“kfl Juneau mine stock today is, clearly indicate the Red Koreans|2', American Can 9%, Anaconda |are “throwing everything they | 32%, Curtiss-Wright 10%, Interna- |have” in the drive for Pusan. | tional Harvester 28%, Kennecott “They have so far failed in this | 60%, New York Central 14%, North- effort,” air Army spokesman said, | €' Pacific 18%, US. Steel 36%, |“because they have not succeeded | Pound $2.80%. | lin preventing the arrival of fresh| Sales today were 1,080.000 shares. U. S. troops and equipment.” | Averages today are as follows: in- | dustrials 211.26, rails 63.76, utilities | | 38.09. The United States ranks far| ahead of any other nation in um- duction of the four major so of power, coal, natural gas, oil hydroelectric power. . . . . . . . 3 . . 1 the OKLAHOMAN VISITS HERE Miss Tressa Brown of Oklahoma and City is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, L | ) Fighting Leathernecks Landed on Korean Front; Make It Tough for Enemy UPSETS IN PRIMARIES, TWO STATES (By Associated Press) State Senator Emery W. Allison, supported by President Truman, still . trailed by about 10,000 votes ! today for the Missouri Democratic | Senate nomination, but he gained a little as outstate returns came in. He had been behind by over 11,- 000 votes as the counting in yes- | terday’s primary stopped for the night, In 4281 to 4,676 precincts, Alli- |son had 165,955 to 174,555 for for- mer U. ©. Rep. Thomas C. Hén- nings, Jr,, of St. Louis. More than 90 per cent of the vote had been counted, but the result was still indecisive. Republican Senator Forrest C. Donnell easily won renomination. All incumbent representatives ap- peared to have won too. In the neighboring state of Kan- sas, Republicans nominated Gov. Frank Carlson for U. 8. senator and Edward F. Arn, former state at‘orney general, for governor. This was a setback for Alf M. Landon, 1936 GOP presidential | nominee, who sought to regain con- trol of the state party organiza- tion by backing Willard Maybeery editor-rancher and his former sec- retary for governor. Arn was and Senator , By TOM LAMBERT and | ¢ DON WHITEHEAD A SOUTH KOREAN PORT, Aug. 2—(P—U.S. Marines arrived in force tonight at this South Korean port. They called for beer, asked about shore liberty and promised to make thmgs tough for the enemy. I “We will give them the best we got—and that’s a lot,” said a Ma- rine Sergeant. A veteran of World War II and a typical leatherneck, he calmly scanned the low hills as the big transport edged into a dock. It brought the first contingent of Ma- rines from the United States to a beachhead shrinking under the armored blows of the North "Ko- reans, “We figure this will be tougher than anything we have had before,” the Sergeant said. The brass band on the dock played two stirring leatherneck airs, “From the Halls of Montezuma” and “Semper Fidelis.” The Marines came heavy combat. They will go into battle behind hurling Pershing M-26 tanks, weighing 45 tons and mounting a 80 mm. gun. There's been nothing like that on the American side so far. Russian-made T-34's consisten- tly have outgunned the American medium tanks. Flame throwers and the new tank-killer super-bazookas also were in the Marine equipment. “We feel fine and hot to go,” said Staff Sgt. Claude Bricker of Kan- sas City. “No pain, no strain. We just want to get this over,” said Staff Sgt. loaded for Leonard Libby of Granite City, Ill. | backed by Carlson Harry Darby, who is retiring from the Senate. Carlson defeated Harry W, Col- mery, former national commander of the American Legion, for the Senate candidacy. Colmery also was backed by the Landon forces. In West Virginia, Rush D. Holt, former Democratic senator turned Republican, won handily the nom- ination for the House in the Third District. They came from the Carolina| hills, the streets of New York and the plains of the midwest. They were a cross-section of America. They had been 20 days crossing | the Pacific and had been expected two days earlier. | An advance party of leatherneck | administrative personnel was flown here from the United States several | days ago to prepare for the arrival of the fighting forces. ‘The fighting Marines landed some 40 miles from the battlefront in southeastern Korea. CORDOVAN HERE ~ Mrs. Carrie Vinquist of Cordova is at the Gastineau Hotel. Buckwheat is raised commercially in 15 U.S. states, FROM DILLINGHAM Elizabeth Reiley of Dillingham is at the Baranof Hotel. HEIGHTS OF CHINJU NOW RECAPTURED Base of Pusan Threatened by North Koreans—Sher- man Tanks Dig In (By the Associated Press) U.S. 24th Division troops and Sherman tanks recaptured heights east of Chinju today in a bloody counterblow at the North Korean spearhead thrusting dangerously close to the south coast base of Pu- san. But the U.S. First Cavalry gave up burning Kumchon at the north- west corner of a shrinking Allied perimeter and other American and South Koreans abandoned four other anchor towns on the northern front. Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported that the enemy had launched his “last desperate all-out effort” to drive the Americans out of Korea as the U.S. First Marine Division began disembarking at a port a little over 40 miles from the Chinju battlefield. Sherman tanks, dug in, met So- viet-made tanks in the battle north- east of Chinju. For a time the American counterattackers were threatened with encirclement when the Reds surged around their flanks. There were many American casualties and some tank losses. Heights Regained But the 24th Division troops, vet~ erans of the first fighting in Ko- rea, regained heights at Sangmun, 10 miles eastof , and:reached positions at Nn‘ five miles | southwest of Chungam, a front line dispatch reported. This was ground lost Tuesday when the Communist thrust 15 miles east of Chinju toward Pusan. The Red radio at Pelping said Chinese Communists had offered military and naval aid to North Ko- rea but the offer had been rejacted as not needed now. This appeared to be a propaganda gesture to counter Gen. MacArthur’s refusal of Chinese Nationalist troops from threatened Formosa. The U.S. government is consider- ing reversing its past policy of re- fusing military aid to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. National Guard Called Washington identified the four | National Guard divisions that have been called into national service. They are the 28th from Pennsyl- vania, the 40th from California, the 43rd from Connecticut, Vermont and Rhode Island, and the 45th from Oklahoma, as well as the 196th Combat Team from South Dakota and the 278th from Tennessee. ¢ The Marines, bringing flame throwers, bigger tank killing. ba- zookas and M-26 tanks of 45 tons, heavier than any yet used in Korea, were met by a brass band, playing “From the Halls of Montezuma.” Teenage newcomers and grizzled veterans of the outfit declared themselves “feeling fit and hot to go.” The fall of Kumchon, about 90 miles to the northwest of the port of debarkation, had been forecast when dispatches reported the rail and highway town was under artil- lery fire, and that First Cavalry troops were holding an arc-shaped front around it. Along the twisting northern front 25th Division and South Korean troops gave up Hamchang, Sangju, Yechon and Andong and withdrew behind the Naktong river on part of the front. The North Koreans long had been stalemated on this front. (Conunued on Page Six) STEAMER MOVEMENTS Chilcotin from Vancouver sched- uled to arrive late Thursday after- noon. Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver tonight. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Kathleen scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Aleutian from westward scheduled 7 p.m. Sunday. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- rive at 8 a.m. Friday sailing south one hour later at 9 am.