The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1950, Page 1

v . - < + brought 35 passengers here yes.er- . SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXV,, NO. 11,573 THE DAILY ALAS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Korean Reds Makin HARRIMAN ISBOUND FOR TOKYO Truman’s Special . Assisl- ant, Milltary Men Off fo See MacArthur | TACOMA, Aug. 5—M—W. Averell Harriman, President Truman’s spe- cial assistant on foreign affairs, and five high ranking military men were headed for Tokyo today by plane, via the Alaska route. The party made a brief refueling stop late yesterday at nearby Mc- Chord Air Force base after taking off from Washington, D.C, earlier in the day. Harriman will confer with Gen- eral MacArthur. He and Lt. Gen. Lauris Norstad, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, are scheduled to return to the national capital next Wed- nesday. They are traveling with other of- ficers, in Air Force Gen. Hoyt Van- denberg’s personal Constellation plane. Harriman said he will discuss po- | litical affairs with MacArthur. Air Force officers with him are expected ! to confer with military authorities | in Japan, presumably in connection with the Korean war. PAA CLIPPERS TAKE | 81 PASSENGERS Pan American World Mrways“ day, and carried 46 southbound. Arriving from Seattle were Beth| Ogden, with Judy and Robert; Vir- ginia Shattuck, the Rev. Edgar Gallant, P. J. Webster and 29 Nakat | Packing Corporation employees go- ing to Noyes Island. Outbound, Conrad Peterson and | N. Blyberg went to Annette; N. B. MacDonald and Larry E. Baldwin| were booked to Ketchikan. These passengers went to Seattle: Katherine Wise, Pearl Berg, J. An- derson, Minnie Brod, Earling Into-! lubbe, Rosina Overholtzer, Junnmi‘ Ebert and infant Mike; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Glover, Harry Moric, Juanita Stephens with Katherine; Frank Sacchi, James Burnell, Keith Roberts and 26 passengers | who arrived via Pacific Northern from the westward. FROM GREL-TOP B. F. Thompson of Greentop, Al- aska, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. CONRAD RETURNS T. Conrad has returned from a trip to Hawk Island aud again is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. The Washington Merry - Go-Round Bv DREW PEARSON ICopyright, 1sha. by Bell Eyndigate, Ine.) WSHXNGTON — The more en- lightened half of the Pearson household took & dim view of a recent column in which I thought 1 was urging support for President Truman in the Korean war but compared his qualities of leadership somewhat unfavorably with those of FDR. “It doesn't make any difference,” sald Mrs. P, “what Mr. Truman’s |Robert A. Ackerly, temporary com- » voice is like or whether he is good on the radio. You shouldn’t be too personal. And you shouldn’t be too tough on him in comparing him to FDR.” Maybe Mrs. P. has a point there. At any rate the main thing I want to emphasize in urging tional unity is that people usually fail to understand that world wars really begin far in advance of the actual conflagration, and a Pres- ident who has the courage to nip a war in the bud early sometimes is able to head off a major world war later. more na- | Erwin Hube, formerly superintend- |is equipped for quick freezing. G. I also think that President Tru- man acted with a lot of courage in not ducking a showdown on Korea—despite the critics who now say “I told you so” when things go wrong. . Whether he was wise or whether General MarArthur was too con- fidant in his advance “guarantee of (Continued on Page Four) ] FIFTH DAY BRINGS WEATHER BREAK FOR TRIP T0 C-54 10th Rescue Commander Makes Flight-Balchen, Thomas fo Ice Cap “Practically clear” weather in the | Fairweather Range this morning | gave hope that a 10th Air Rescue | Squadron flight could succeed to- | day in reaching the scene of the | crashed Air Force C-54, which was | sighted late Monday. Pilots and other 10th Rescue ex- perts have maintained readiness for four days, during which they have been weather-bound except for one attempt on which they had to turn back from Cape Spencer. The rescue party went to the Ju- neau airport at 11 am. today, hoping to leave immediately for the Mount Crillon mountain mass 'where the wreckage was seen. The flight was to be in a B-17; brought in late yesterday by Maj. manding officer of the 10th Rescue Squadron, with Lt, Lloyd L. Cas*o| as co-pilot. ! This first mission was to pbe a reconnaissance operation, partly to determine the feasibility of a land- ing on Brady Glacier, from which to base a trail crew. H Accompanying the Air Force party | was Maynard M. Miller, field direc- | tor of the Juneau Icefield Research Project (JIRP), who explored the Fairweather area on the Brady Ice- field expedition in 1940, and helped chart the mountainous region. About the same time today, the ski-equipped 10th Rescue C-47 was to take off for the Juneau Ice Cap, where the twin-engine craft was to make a glacier landing. Besides personnel and supplies for JIRP bases, two notable were aboard—Col. Bernt Balchen, for- mer 10th Rescue commander and now special Arctic assistant to the | Alaskan Air Command, and Lowell | Thomas, global explorer and news commentator. H Thomas and his cameraman, | John Roberts, expect to stay several ; days on the Ice Cap, observing JIRP operations, which include the drilling of a “laboratory” into the! ice. Already, a 70-foot hole has been drilled. Flying the ski-plane are Capt. F. : Sparrvohen, pilot, and Lt. Victor | Rudd, Jr., co-pilot. Dr. Willard Nicholl, JIRP med- ical officer, who was on the Ice Cap earlier in the summer, was to return with the party today. At 11 am. today, the U. S. Weather Bureau reported “practic- ally clear” weather in the Mount Crillon area, There was a fairly low ceiling over the Ice Cap, “but clearing enough so that the oper- ation probably could be accom- plished.” ARCHIE SHIELS, PAF EXECUTIVE, HERE Mr. and Mrs. Archie W. Shiels of Bellingham, Wash., are in Ju- neau “for our annual vacation,” they say, but those who know Mr. Shiels know he is here on business. Chairman of the executive com- mittee of the Pacific American Fisheries , Mr. Shiels is here in connection with the affairs of his company. In addition to its canneries at Petersburg and Kasaan, PAF will aperate the floating cannery Neva in Excursion Inlet this year. The Neva is completing a satisfactory first season in Prince William Sound this week and is due to ar- rive for the SE Alaska season next week. Aboard the Neva a two-line cannery is operated and the ship ent for Dan Campbell at Excursion Inlet, is operating the Neva for PAF. Other PAF operations in the Prince William Sound area are at | King Cove and Squaw Harbor. | The Bristol Bay canneries at Naknek and Nushagak ended the ! season with packs that “while not good, were better than we had ex- pected this year,” Mr. Shiels sald,} Stanley Tarrant, vice president | in charge of operations for PAF, will spend the remainder of the salmon canning season in this area. Mr, and Mrs. Shiels, who consider Juneau their second home, and Mr. Tarrant will be at the Baranof ‘Hotel for the rest of the month. | Taku, |for the Kotzebue trip, |quhar, SAILINGS TO ALASKA RESUMED SEATTLE, Aug. 5 — (® — The| steamship Baranof, with a full crew of security-screened stewards aboard, sailed for Alaska this morn- ing. The Alaska Steamship Company vessel sailed under the same agree- ment which allowed her sister ship the Alaska, to depart yesterday |aiter a 24-hour delay. The stewards, members of the | Marine Cooks .and Stewards’ Union (CIO), had objected to procedure for screening out bad security risks. A temporary agreement was reached yesterday in lengthy meetings be- tween union and company officials |for a security check by the Coast Guard. The check is required un- der the National Maritime Secur- ity Act. TRAVELERS FROM HAWAII MAKING EXTENSIVE TRIP It was their presence nesota for the recent marriage of their son, John Troup Moir III, that started Mr. and Mrs. Moir, of Lauaina, Maui, T. H, on a trip through Alaska. They were at Taku Lodge Friday after a trip north over the Alcan Highway. Their route? By plane to Edmonton, by train from Ed- monton to Dawson Creek, by bus to Whitehorse and over the White Pass by train, and plane to Juneau. Already they have covered a lot of the north, but this is just the beginning. After their return from | they will fly to Skagway, make the Taku Arm lake trip from Carcross. From Whitehorse they will make the round trip by river boat to Dawson, then to Fairbanks. Here they will take Wein Airways | legal technicality, it was the green |by the Hayes and Whitely Com- in Min- KA. SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GROUNDWORK FOR | WEST-END SEWER JOB IS COMPLETED All preparatory work on the sewer project for West Seventh,§ Zighth and Ninth Streets was coms dleted, as far as the city is con- :erned, at the regular. meeting he City Council last night. At that time the council passed 1 resolution authorizing the mayor 0 execute an agreement with the branch of the Interior Department in charge of projects carrfed out under the provisions of the Publicy Works Bill for Alaska. ] The agreement requires the eity 0 pay 50 percent of the cost of the project and to take over the sewer and its maintenance when the job is completed. | Although the action was only a light which will start work on a long-desired improvement for the west end of the city. Low bid on the job was submitted pany of Juneau which offered to | construct the system for $19,786. The bids were opened July 26. The job will probably be com- pleted in November, according Yo John Argetsinger, district engineer in charge of Public Works for Al-| aska & No Conarete: Fipe tion since 1937. P Wirephoto. The city council also passed a| o 67 o 3 motion authorizing the payment of $200 above the low bid, which, Mayor Waino Hendrickson pointed ouf, would be the cost of laying!} vitrified pipe—baked clay—instead | of concrete pipe. City Engineer J. L. McNamara said that vitrified pipe would last| longer than concrete, according to Mayor Hendrickson. Councilman | James Larsen, who is in the con- | tracting business, agreed with (ne| city engineer. 1 The council passed a motion pro- | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 5— viding for increases 1. the salaries (p _Recent unexplained explosions of the firetruck drivers, who act on or near Russian-owned Big Dio- as City Hall janitors when not driv- nede Island in the Bering Strait ing. ; | were reported here today. The chief driver’s salary was in- | wmy .and Mrs, Frank Morgan, of creased from $270 per month €| ajchorage, returned yesterday with $300; the assistant driver'’s from | the report from Little Diomede Is- return tol Fairbanks, to Mt. McKinley Park, | Anchorage, south by boat to Ket- | chikan, then Pan American plane | to Seattle. While the fact that they arej making such an extensive trip of | the Territory is interesting, to Al- | 1skans, the Moirs of Hawaii are | themselves of greater interest. Mr. Moir, whose father went to | he Islands from Scotland in 1888, was born in the Islands, grew up on the sugar plantations managed by his father. He was graduated {rom Cornell University where he met Miss Gertrude Mae Fisher, and | they were married in 1916. Their life on Maul sounds idyllic —but plenty busy. Except for the tragedy of World War II, Mrs. Moir found the war years an in- teresting time. Her husband was commanding officer of the Maui volunteers and was in charge of civilian defense on their Island. Mrs. Moir was head of the Am- erican Red Cross, spent part of a year in California where she re- ceived her degree in education while she was giving first aid courses for the Red Cross, earned her master's degree at the University of Hawaii for her thesis on Stand- ardized Courses for Red Cross First Aid—the result of her courses given at Stanford University, Menlo, Mills, University of California and the | University of Hawail. Visitors in Hawali wonder how | any resident could ever leave the island territory, but Moirs have found time to travel all over the world. It was while on a seven- months trip to South America a year ago with her daughter that Babs Moir met George Gros Mason, traffic manager for South America for Pan American Grace Airways, | and theft wedding last winter filled riewspaper columns from New York to Honolulu. The Masons now live in Lima, Peru, probably Mrs. Moir’s destination on her next trip away from home, The Moirs are interesting and interested travelers. The problems of their own territory gnd the prob- | lems of Alaska have much in com- mon, as they say, have the native peoples and artifacts of Alaska and Hawalii. FROM MT. EDGECUMBE Several Mt. Edgecumbe residents are newly registered at the Baranof Hotel. They are Betty Ross, Mrs. Geraldine Miles and Lowell Far- bl |1and, owned by the United States The fire department was also iand only three miles from the Soviet authorized to purchase ;$650 worth | Far East island outpost. of turnout suits for new members,, The Morgans said that severa These will be purchased from the times during a four-month stay or agent for Globe equipment, it was | Little Diomede they heard louc indicated. |noises at sea. They believed thc Acting on the recommendation | Noises may have been from a sur- of an equipment salesman, the|VeYy ship taking soundings or from the ; snow-removing machine capable of | ented them from locating loading snow into trucks much ; sources. faster than the present equipment. ! council that the international situ- Diomede as Eskimos reported that ation has already had an effect on |only one Soviet plane was one lhel the price of machinery and the city | island last winter. should move fast to take advantage! The natives also reported that of present low prices on the piece the Russian Island was strangely of equipment they want, a conveyor | inactive, Morgan said. Last spring, belt loader for putting snow on | tourists said the island was being trucks. | evacuated of its residents as the The council authorized the street | Russians prepared to construct a and finance committees to study |large base on Big Diomede. No large the two types of machine recom- ;canstrucuon is evident there, Mor- mended and to purchase the one |gan said. they believed most suited to the‘ N hix quesiom mara | (UTTER AIDS DISABLED ~ MOTOR BARGE CUDA Several sales tax questions brought before the council and dis- The Coast Guard cutter Cahoone yesterday went to the aid of tte posed of. One dealt with the rule | concerning sales within the city orted in dis- 30 miles limits to persons residing outside | the city. | e e The council decided that all retail | O/ ;’3; ; “i .’le" 3 sales for delivery within and with- | ''®58 © Mo SRR, out the city are taxable. ‘.southeast of Ketchikan, Another question concerned fax | The_vessel \dpd ff)und 19 shave on the sale of fish. The council been disakled by engine failure and decided that the sale of fish to \'S fuel tank was leaking into the restaurants would not be taxed, |l8ine room. It was towed fto since the restaurant was not the | Ketchikan by the cutter Cahoone consumer. |according to word reaching Coas’ Guard headquarters here. | Rerporting forms for all who col- | 3 ¢ » lect the one-percent tax under the| Lh€ message xggaxdtng the Cuda’s |city’s new sales tax ordinance are trouble was. pnafidwu:mbrhesCo?s\ now available at the city clerk’s|CUard by Fish and Wildlife Service office in the City Hall, C. L. Pope- ;agems in the Slate Island area. Joy, city clerk announced. : IMMI Gmfi(i STEAMER MOVEMENTS CLOSED UNTIL SEPT. ¥ The Immigration and Naturaliza- Princess Louise from Vancouver tion Service office in the McKinley | due at 3:15 this afternoon, sailing Building will be closed until mid- for Skagway at 11:30. to John arrive Monday. | September, Alaska from Seattle scheduled to Brantner, officer in charge. according Braniner, his wife and two child- Baranof from Seattle scheduled ren were scheduled to leave by, air to arrive Tuesday. today for South Dakota where they Princess Kathleen scheduled to| Will visit Mrs. Brantner's parents. sail from Vancouver tonight. During Brantner’s vacation, in- Prince George scheduled to sail formation on immigration and nat- from Vancouver Tuesday. uralization may be obtained through Princess Norah scheduled to sail the U.S. Customs Office in the Fed- | from Vancouver Wednesday. eral Building here, or through the Aleutian from westward scheduled office of the Immigration and Nat- lsout.hbound 7 p.m. Sunday. uralization Service in Ketchikan. Closeup aMview shows lava and rising stea) Alaska Peninsula 500 miles west of Anchorage, shortly after it started erupting. EXPLOSIONS '$50,000 Libel HEARD NEAR | Suit Dissolved BiG DIOMEDE| At Fairbanks {council took action to purchase a the Siberian mainland. Fog pre- | poration tax. Ithe airline, argued that new federal The Morgans expressed doubt that | rules do not provide. specifically for The salesman pointed out to the | the Russians are bolstering 3ig filing of such allegations. m on peak of Mount Pavlof, 8900-foot volcanic mountain on This is the first erup- FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 5—® —A technicality dissolved a $50,000 | libel suit against the Fairbanks News-Miner’s owner, the Tanana Publishing Co., yesterday. District court judge Harry E. >ratt dismissed the suit, which had | seen brought by Golden North Air- | vays, Inc. Motion for dismissal was brought )y Maurice T. Johnson, publishing | ompany counsel, on the technical round that plaintiff had failed to llege in the complaint that it had iled its last annual corporation re- oort to the Territory, and had failed to allege it paid its last cor- Warren A, Taylor, representing Judge Pratt held that federal rules do not repeal any territorial statutes, and that filing of such in- formation is mandatory under ter- ritorial law. Taylor said an amended suit will be filed. Th2 complaint was almed at an editorial printed in the News-Miner which dealt with-operation of non- jcheduled air carriers in Alaska. The editorial had appeared in The Daily Alaska Empire, published in Juneau, and was reprinted later in the Fairbanks paper. HOSPITAL NOTES No one was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday. Mrs. John dinchman, Dorothy Riley and Mrs. Gerald Allen and her infant son were dismissed, Francine Jackson of Hoonah was admitted to the Government Hos- sital. | Derby to be held | short distance ahead of Jack Rhode's ACE DERBY DRIVER JERRY TAYLOR T0 LEAVE TOMORROW Gerald (Jerry) Taylor, 12-year- old ace of Juneau’s soap box derb§ drivers, is excited—the big trip be- gins tomorrow. He will board a Pan American World Airways plane tomorrow af- ternoon on the first stage of his journey to the National Soap Box in Akron, O, August 13. The “Blue Bantam” racer, which carried Jerry over the finish line a “wnodemaster” for the local cham- pionship July 23, is already in Ak- ron, awaiting Jerry's arrival. | The “Blue Bantam” will carry the colors of The Daily Alaska Em- pire in the national coasting classic. Jerry will be accompanied on the trip by Milt Daniels, representative of the Juneau Rotary Club, ohe of the sponsors of the local derby. Daniels said that on-the-spot stories from Akron will be sent to The Empire telling of the success of Jerry and the “Blue Bantam” against the nation’s best drivers. Jerry has a perfect racing record so far. He won the five races he g Double-barreled Drive quwip_g lis Tq_p DESPERATE MOVE MADE, RED FORCES Fresh Masses of Men Are Jammed Against Posi- tions of Americans By DON HUTH TOKYO, Sunday, Aug. 6—®— Moving desperately by daylight, the Red invaders of South Korea made an unopposed crossing of the Nak- tong river in the northern sector Saturday and jammed fresh masses of men against American positions in the center and south. A Korean release by General Mac- Arthur's Tokyo headquarters at 12:50 a.m. Sunday (6:50 a.m., Satur- day, PST) said limited counterat- tacks and patrol actions by U.S. and South Korean troops throughout the entire defense areas Saturday night kept the enemy “off balance.” However, the release said, “the enemy has continued to shuttle troops and materiel during the day- light hours, thereby providing ex- cellent targets for artillery and air- craft. “This indicates that the Reds are desperately strlving for a main ef- fort and an all-out attempt to break through the new defense lines.” Heavy Losses by Invaders The release also reported heavy losses by the North Kerean invaders in repeated assaults in the Chinju sector near the southern tip of the line. Field dispatches and briefing officers said these .occurred Frida: Field dispatchés dealared that Saturday the enemy ln"uMhelmld_ numbers had crossed the upper northern reaches of the Naktong in the rain without opposiiion. This was in a sector where South Korean defense forces made a plan- ned withdrawal to a prearranged ridge and mountain pass line. 1) was east and southeast of Sangju, in the northwest corner of the Ko- rean defense box. No Threat, Claim A dispatch from Eighth Army Headquarters in Korea said this crossing was not considered an im- mediate material threat. If a buildup continued there, however, it could develop into a threat to the Ameri- can right and South Korean left flanks. MacArthur's release and all front reports pointed to an imminent double-barreled drive by the Reds in the south and central sectors. MacArthur's headquarters specu- lated that the main Red effort entered here in the first derby car he ever built and raced. But the big test is yet to come— he will face stiff competition in pre- liminary heats during the national classic before getting a chance at the national championship. Jerry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Taylor of Juneau. CRUISER JUNEAU | CONVOYS TANKER, FORMOSA SEAPORT| TAIPEI, Formosa, Aug. 5 — ( — The U. 8. Navy tanker Cimarrom arrived at the Formosan port of Keelung today, under escort o(’ three American warships, bringing a full load of fuel for planes guard- {ing against a Communist invasion | of Formosa. | There was much speculation as | to whether the gasoline was in-| tended for American or Chinese Nationalist war planes. General | MacArthur said he would supply fuel for both. Six American jet fighters arrived yesterday. ‘The cruiser Juneau arrived at Keelung with, the Cimarron and | anchored in the harbor. Two US| destroyers ‘stood guard outside. + While the Cimarron began un-| ® o 0 0 0 5 0 0o 0 WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 52; minimum, 45. At Airport—Maximum, 53; minimum, 41. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Variable cloudiness tonight and Sunday. Little change in might come in the south, in an ef- fort to slash the Pusan-Taegu com- munications lines of the defenders. The crossing posed a third major threat to Allied defense forces. The Korean Reds were reported to have three divisions massed for a strike across the Naktong near Waegwan, south of Sangju and only 15 miles from the U.8. Cenfral Communica~- tions center of Taegu. Reds Are Massing Far to the south, the Reds were massing Tour crack divisions east of Chinju for the drive on Pusan, US. supply port only 35 miles away. In the central sector American planes blasted a large enemy armored force one-half mile west of the Naktong. Associated Press Correspondent Leif Erickson said the U.S. planes knocked out four or five tanks moving northeast to- ward Waegwan and pounded Red artillery, trucks and troops. American artillery also hurled shells into the convoy. For the past few days the North Koreans had concealed their move- ments. Now they are coming into the open. General MacArthur’s headquarters reported the sinking Friday of a 10,000-ton North Korean transport at Inchon, the port of Seoul. B-29's lashed Seoul for the second straight day, leaving the railroad yards flaming and shrouded in temperature. Lowest temper- ature tonight 48, highest day 62. loading, work went ahead on ex- | smoke. The medium bombers plast- | tending airfields on this Nationalist | ered the rail center with 100 tons . ‘lesnd for use by American war|of bombs, 20 tons more than were e planes. | PRECIPITATION o ——— (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ | FROM HOOD BAY City of Juneau—0.12 inches; o | Mr. and Mrs. Al De Asis of Hood | since August 1—1.14 inches; e Bay are staying at the Baranof | since July 1—11.07 inches. e Hotel. At Airport — 008 inches; ® since August 1—0.82 inches; @ since July 1—7.86 inches. ! FROM TODD | A. R. Wolf of Todd, Alaska, is |ing boat Rainbow, dropped Friday. FISH LANDINGS The packer Wanderer landed 10,- 000 pounds of troll-caught on at the Juneau Cold Storage Cors- pany wharf here today. The troll- skipper Fred McGilton, landed 1400 pounds of Pl ™ i o T ;a guest at the Baranof Hotel. salmon.