The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 10, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,577 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1950 Americans Close MANY ISSUES TALKED OVER BY TRUMAN Discusses Excise Profifs Tax —Korean Situation- Meefings on Peace WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 — (® —| President Truman said today he; would accept an excess profits tax if | voted by Congress, but added that| such controversial proposals should be put off until the next Congress meets. He conceded that an excess profits | tax—which he has not asked for— would be voted eventually. But he said he preferred it to come when Congress is over the election jitters. He repeated that he had asked for tax increases which he believed | could be enacted quickly and that an excess profits levy is very con-| troversial. The President also told his news; conference that Jacob Malik, So-| viet representative on the Unifed Nations Security Council, is con-! ducting a filibuster on Korea, and | it is a filibuster against the Rus-| sins themselves principally. i Optimistic on Korea i Replying to another question, heE said he is optimistic on the Korean | military situation. He said he is | taking his advice from U.S. military | Jeaders and he is as optimistic as| they are. A reporter remarked that Gen- eral Douglas MacArthur had com- plained that defeatists and appeas- ers are working against him. The President said he had not met any- one of that sort yet'and empha- sized he and MacArthur are in com- plete agreement. He said he put MacArthur in the Japan job and also made him Com- mander in Chief of the U.N. Forces | in Korea, and is satisfied with what | he is doing. Peace Conference | The President once more rejected | the idea of a meeting of heads of | state on the question of peace.i Asked whether the U.S. would ap-| prove “high level” meetings if | EYE-FULL Karlyne Abele (above), 18, of Des Moines, Wash., is “Miss Washing- ton” of 1950. She will represent the Evergreen State at Atlantic City. Her dramatic reading ablil- ity is another contest asset. Wirephoto. | FORMER WAC IS NOMINATED FOR | SHERIFF, IDAHO. IDAHO CITY, Idaho, Aug. 10—® | —A former WAC Sergeant won the | | sercent. { President Truman told a news con- || ference that an excess profits tax | creases apply Trygve Lie, U.N. Secretary General, | Boise County Republican nomina- took the initiative, he replied that | tion for sheriff. If elected next fall this had not been put up to him ‘1 she will become Idaho’s first woman ; yet and would comment when and sheriff. if it is. A reporter putting this question quoted Lie as saying the real crisis would come after the Korean war is ended and that “high level” meet- ings would be necessary to work out . solution. The President said he would favor anything that would contribute to world peace. “That raises the old questioni (Continued on Page Five) The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By TOM McNAMARA and JACK ANDERSON opyrisht, 190, vy Bell Syndicate, Ine.) \Ed. Note—While Drew Pear- son is on a brief vacation, his column will be written by mem- bers of his staff.) mSHINGTON—One of the un- told stories of the Korean war is that Joe Stalin had a blunt fore- warning from President Truman that we wouldn’t put up with any more Soviet shenanigans—in Korea or anywhere else. The ultimatum was relayed by Trygve Lie, U. N. Secretary-Gen- eral, when he visited Moscow just before the Korean outbreak. Lie wanted to work out a “peace” for- mula whereby we would recognize Communist China as a member of the United Nations if Stalin, in turn, agreed to call off the cold war. However, Truman flatly rejected this proposal when the U. N. official sounded him out before leaving for Moscow. The President said he was willing to meet Stalin halfway on “honorable” grounds, but not as an appeaser. Somewhat crestfallen, Lie asked as the conference broke up: “Mr. President, is there any message you would like me to give to General- issimo Stalin?” “No,” replied Truman. Then he added, crisply: “Yes, tell him that the United States Ve Sy (Continued on Page Four) ! | city. were charged before Commissioner Mrs. Harriet (Babe) Hansen, 50, ran up 145 votes in eight of Boise | county’s 10 precincts to win over | Charles Newell of Horseshoe Bend | and John W. Rynearson of Idaho She has served as a guide for big game parties in Idaho’s primitive area for years. She is recognized as | one of the state’s best marksmen and has killed 75 cougar. Mrs. Hansen operates a ranch on | the middle fork of the Salmon river. ILLEGAL FISHING NEAR YAKUTAT HAS CLOSED ITALIOR. A marked decline in escapement | in the Italio river near Yakutat lead to a check by the Fish and Wildlife | Service and complaints against (ouri fishermen who were found seine fishing in the river. Complaint was filed by Robert H. Bain, enforcement agent of the F & WS at Yakutat, against R. K. | Gildersleeve and C. M. Whipple, both of Petersburg, and Paul Henry and Peter Harry of Yakutat. Gildersleeve and Whipple, pilots ! who fish from their Seabee plnnes,I Gordon Gray at court held in Yaku- | tat on two counts: 1. Fishing with- out registering with the local Fish and Wildlife agent and 2. Fishing with improper gear, using gill gear as beach seines. They were fined $100 each on the first count and $400 each on the sec- ond count. Henry and Harry, natives, were charged with improper use of gear | and fined $150 each. A thousand sockeye salmon were confiscated by the Court. Judge Gray was flown to Yakutat by Clarence Rhode, regional direc- | tor of the F & WS, who assisted in | the prosecution. ! Because of the limited escape-| ment, the Italio River has been closed until such time as sufficient | fish have reached the spawning {Count, However, Favors grounds, Mr. Rhode said today. BOOSTS IN TAXES NOW (OMING UP Corporations to Pay More, —Revamping of Income i Taxes Next Move WASHINGTON, Aug 10 — @1 — The Senate finance committee has unanimously approved President Truman'’s proposal for a $1,500,000,- J00 a year increase in corporation taxes—boosting the top corporate inccme rate irom 38 percent to 45 The committee acted shortly afer | will be enacted eventually. The committee ruled that the higher rates shall apply as of July ! 1, 1950. It refused to accept Mr.! Truman’s proposal that the in-| to all of 1950 cor-| porate income. ! The corporate increase is part: of Mr. Truman’s overall $5,000,000,- | 000 tax increase proposal, to help | | finance the Korean war and Ani- | | erica’s armament against Com:Zuni- | ist aggression. i The committee probably will vite | tomorrow on the President’s pro- | posal for a $3,000,000,000 increase | ;!in levies on individual incomes— | raising the rates by 20 percent in | some income categories. | The corporate rate approved to- | day would be 25 per cent on the | first $25,000 of corporation income, | and 45 percent on income above{ $25,000. | President Truman said that he| would of course approve an excess | orofits tax if it is added to his| $5,000,000,000 interim tax proposil. | | | (LOSE RACE IN PRIMARY INIDAHO 1 | Clark fo Nose Out In- l cumbent Taylor BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 10—(®—The hard-fought battle for the Demo- cratic nomination to the six-year S. Senate term in Idaho re- mained inconclusive today—two | days after the primary election. | But the count definitely favored | former Senator D. Worth Clark, seeking to oust incumbent Senator Glen H. Taylor, With 779 of 839 precincts counted, Clark held a 1,000 vote margin over the guitar-playing former cowboy from Pocatello. The count showed: Clark, 26,475; Taylor, 25,409. A third man in the race, Repre- sentative Compton I. White, hxs 14,507. Sen. Henry C. Dworsnak was| assured of the Republican nomin- ation for the four-year Senate post. FWS OFFICIALS ARE i NOW DUE IN JUNEAU| Fish and Wildlife officials from Washington, D.C., due in Juneau today include Severn Ulmer, head of the personnel division; Seton Thompson is expected to arrive this | weekend and Ralph P. Silliman, | chief of the anadromous fisheries; section is already in the Juneau area making a biological survey. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Prince George from Vancouver scheduled to arrive Friday atm-l noon. Princess Norah scheduled to ar-| rive Saturday afternoon. | Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Chilcotin scheduled to sail from Vancouver tonight. Princess Louise scheduled to sail] from Vancouver Saturday. { Alaska scheduled southbound on Saturday. Baranof from west southbound Sunday. scheduled 1 38.71. CONTROLS 10 TRUMAN BY HOUSE Measure Passed, Sent Senate — Wages, Prices Rationing Included ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—P— House passed today ‘a bill gh broad authority to President man to start rationing and clamj ceilings on prices and wages. ) The home front controls bill similar measure. It contaifs more power President asked, but no more than he has indicated he would accept. The roll call vote on final passa was 383 to 12, Presumably Mr. make no immediate use of price- wage-rationing controls, as he didn’t ask for them originally. He could be expected to apply first the sections of the bill he did request, those, for instance, provid- ing for production priorities for de- fense contracts, and for channeling scarce materials into defense chan- els. The House okayed the bill after six days of wrangling and legislative | flip flops. The House bill would empower Mr. Truman to: 1 1. Put ceilings on wages and prices, either separately or jointly, whenever he wants. ‘Wages would be stabilized at the levels of May 24-June 24 this year. In pegging prices, the President would have to give “due consideration”-to Jevels ¢1' that period. 2. Order rationing of anything he thinks ought to be rationed, and at wholesale or retail levels. 3. To allocate scarce materials. 4. Require top priorities for de- fense contracts. 5. Requisition materials or equip- ment for the defense program. 6. Make defense production loans up to a total of $2,000,000,000. 7. Control credit, with some re- strictions. All authority would expire next June 30. 7‘?&’2 on 1 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — | | | | . R The plane is used as a » Wirephoto. "COMPLETE DEADLOCK" IN STRIKE ,;Federal Mediator at An- chorage Sees NoProspect of Settlement Soon ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 10— {»—A three-hour conference be- STEWARDS SIGN UP; DENALI NOW ON WAY NORTH Agreemenl fs Reported Reached on Screening - Procedure SEATTLE, Aug. 10 — (® — The steamship Denali sailed today for Alaska with a nearly-complete stew- | ards crew after another dispute over Coast Guard screening procedure | was settled—at least temporarily. An official of the Alaska Steam- ship Company said he has been no- tified there would be no further de- lays in the signing on of crews, He said the Pacific Maritime Associa- tion and the Marine Cooks and Stewards’ Union (CIO), the dissi- dent union, had notified him from San Francisco that the matter had been ironed out. Seattle officers of the union said they had not been informed of the | agreement, The Denali signed 56 stewards. Its normal complement is 60. Two other vessels affected by the stewards’ reluctance to submit their sea papers to Coast Guard security officers for screening will sail to- morrow or Saturday, steamship of- | ficials said. They are the Aleutian, which/ needs 76 stewards and is scheduled to sail Saturday, and the freighter | Victoria, with eight stewards. The Victoria may leave tomorrow. STOCK GUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 10 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 93%, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss- Wright 10%, International Harves- ter 20%, Kennecott 61%, New York Centrol 14%, Northern Pacific 17%, U.S. Steel 367%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,875,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 216.64, rails 62.24, utilities {tween representatives of the Master Plumbers Association and striking members of the AFL Plumbérs | Union, Local 367, broke up last |night in “complete deadlock.” William Hosie, Federal mediator, said both parties were firmly es- tablished in their original positions on demanded wage increases. SiGe ) Front lljne L'iairso‘ e e e T ,PTcl(eIing in Juneau (ase Dedared lllegal; Ruling Announced by NLR Board | issues, such as a two-year contract, were discussed, he said, but the key obstacle continued to be wages. The unien insists on $3.50 an hour, the same wage recently granted® plumbers in Fairbanks. i They now receive $3. Strike Criticized { The strike, now nearing the end of its fourth week, was criticized by Defense Secretary Johnson this jweek as threatening the security of {the United States. | “These things are long and drawn lout affairs” Hosie said after Cae | negotiating session ended. “At |present I see no possibility of any future meetings. Neither party feels any more are needed and everyone concerned believes there is no basis for further discussions.” Hosie said he would so infc™ Cyrus S. Ching, director of the Federal mediation service, in his official report. The mediator said he was uncer- (Cor.unued on Page Six) o o WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 80; minimum, 49. At Airport—Maximum, 78; minimum, 42. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Continued fair tonight and Friday. Low temperature to- night about 50 and high Fri- day near 75. PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today L4 City of Juneu — None; e since August 1—1.14 inches; since July 1—11.07 inches. At Airport Nene; since August 1—0.82 inches; since July 1—7.86 inches. o e 0o 060000 00 Truman woui A U. 8. Marines’ helicopter takes off from a Marine¢ forward command Haison unit between front lin e position and the First Marine Division | | ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. ll)—M’i—’I‘he1 National Labor Relations Board has ruled for the first time that picket- ing to force employers to hire only union members violates the Taft- Hartley Act. The unanimous decision of the board was reached after the Su- preme Court declared that even peaceful picketing “has aspects which are more than.speech, and may therefore be restricted, at least where it is undertaken for an un- lawful objective.” The ruling was made in two cases. One involved the AFL Building and Construction Trades Council of Den- ver Shore, a highway construction contractor of Littleton, Colo. The other case involved Local 16 of the CIO Longshoremen, headed by Harry Bridges, and the Juneau Spruce Corp., of Juneau, Alaska. The board said the Denver Build- ing Trades Council and two of its affiliated local unions violated the law by picketing one of Shore's pro- jects because he failed to hire only union members. In the Juneau case, the union had picketed the company to force it to employ longshoremen to load lum- ber barges in Alaska. That action came after the board had deter- mined in a jurisdictional dispute! that the Bridges’ union had no legal ' right to have this work assigned to | its members, The loading had been | done by members of the CIO Wood,| workers Union. by In both cases the unions were ordered to stop such picketing.; Board orders are enforceable in chel’ courts. The Taft-Hartley Act outlaws the closed shop, in which only union members may be employed. 'BESERK GUNMAN' | FOUND ASLEEP IN HOMER HOME BED! ! ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 10— (M—The “berserk gunman” who. re- portedly terrified residents of Hs- mer, 125 miles southwest of here early yesterday, was sound asleep in his own bed when marshal’s deputies arrived. They said their investigation showed earlier reports had been overdrawn. What had happened, they said, was that the man fired a shot into the air with his rifle after a num- ber of trespassers had refused to get off his land when he orderéli them to “scram.” There was no complaint signed against the man, so the deputies returned here on the afternoon plane. - Eight sightseers made a 35-minute flight over the ice cap near Juneau yesterday by Alaska Coastal plane. They were Tom Stewart, Mary 8. Fellows, Andrew Wood, Hartley| © | Smith, Pete Warner, Ted Oberman, {P. Parker and Oliver Trower. | 'qulred by the Alaska Native Ser- | | i | 1 | | post near the Korean SC REMAINS STALEMATED OVER KOREA Issue of ""Obstructionism” Is Put Up Directly fo Russian Malik . LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 10 — (# — The United States told the still- stalemated Security Couneil today the Soviet Union wants a settis- ment in Korea that “would send the United Nations police away and leave the bandits to plunder Korea at will.” : “People all over the world know | that international Communism could halt the conflict in in Korea tomorrow,” declared Warren B. i Austin, chief U. S. delegate. “Tlie | whole world knows in which direc- tion to look for the signal that will halt the evil of war.” Before today’s council session, tfe 11 delegates held a 9-minute secret caucus. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Britain and others put the issue of “on- structionism” to Malik. Malik in- sisted he could not as President rule on the immediate issue—e point of order raised by China, seeking to have South Korea rep- resented at the council table. Malik, at the start of the public | session, said “the opinions of the parties remain unchanged.” A few minutes later Austin took the floor for a full-dress review of the conflict from the Ameri viewpdint.! He 'saldi| | § 11 ‘;Y‘l *‘h “The Soviet Union is ‘the only one of the great. powers on this earth that has held aloof from the condemnation of aggressive war- fare in Korea. Refusal to con- demn such aggression will make it clear who is for peace and who is not.” 1 FISHING VESSEL | EXPLODES, BURNS; MASTER INJURED SEATTLE, Aug. 10—(®—The fish- ing vessel Flute of Tacoma ex- ploded and burned while taking on fuel at the Standard Oil Company docks in Neah Bay last night. The Coast Guard said the force | of the blast blew the clothes from R. D. Rose of Puyallup, the ship’s master. He was hospitalized at Port Angeles. Senal; Passes Bill, ANS Prgp_erly Issue WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—(P—A| bill to transfer Federally owned | land and buildings, no longer re- vice to local Alaskan authorities for school purposes was passed by the Senate yesterday. It goes back to the House, which passed it last year, because the Senate amended it. 000 Red Troops 2 FRONTS, HOWEVER MENACED Various Thrusts Reporfed on Both Sides-Bridge- head Battle Is on (By the Associated Press) Two columns of Americans elosed & trap on at least 1,000 Korean Red troops today in a strong drive which carried them within five miles of the Communist southern base at Chinju. But the Communists made menacing lunges on two other fronts. While the southern offensive of the Americans shot patrols to within two miles of Chinju, the Commun- ists exploded into action on a sector where they had been stalled for some time, and menaced Pohang, the US. air and sea base on the east coast. Gen. MacArthur's sum- mary said, however, the two-pronged | drive by regulars and guerrillas ap- peared to have been halted by strong South Korean opposition eight miles west of Pohang. Reds Exert Pressure The North Korean Reds also exerted heavy pressure on South Korean troops about 30 miles north of the US. road-rail base at Taegu. The Gommunist concen- trated their push in the vicinity of Ulsong, west of Red-held Yong- dok. South Koreans were counter- attacking. The headlong Communist retreat in, the southern sectorof Korea was described. a8 ‘“in . the nature of a rout.” ~ 2 Bridgehead Battle To the north in the bridgehead battle along the Naktong river, U.S. First Cavalry Division troops fin- ished wiping out a Red bridgehead, and counted 300 Communist dead and 20 captured, But the US. Eighth Army reported Red pressure was building up farther forth. The U.8. 24th Division was fighting new Communist thrusts along a Naktong bridgehead to the south. New Serious Threat A serious threat geveloped in the far northeastern-end of the 140- mile battlefront. Just below Yong- dok, recaptured by the Reds, two Communist pincers drove south against crumbling South Korean opposition. They were attempting to destroy a main American fighter plane base eight miles southeast of Pohang. Mustang pilots at the base said the enemy was only 5% miles from the end of the airstrip. Four Mus- tangs were lost during the day de- fending the strip. Counter Meéasures Vigorous countermeasures were under way to in new sy, which bikstfroit twva sides. e Communists, driven back in the, squth and held.on the Naktong, had been expected to launch some . sort of drive in the north and north- east where they have been main- taining heavy pressure on South Korean troops. With civilian-led guerrillas, they thrust out both from Yongdok and captured mountain village only nine miles from Po- hang, American sea and air base 25 miles south of Yongdok. Stand to Death The North Koreans apparently ordered their Sixth Division to stand to death against the Ameri- can southern offensive while ' they diverted units of their First Division north to the Naktong bridgeheads. To the north two elements of the U.S. First Cavalry Division con- tained or isolated two small Red bridgeheads across the river. Still farther north on the river 900 enemy dead were counted after South Ko- reans drove another Red force back across the river. The Reds’ own artillery fire was reported turned on them to make them fight ahead. Walker’s Gamble A gamble by the U.S. 8th Army Commander, Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, was paying off. In order to launch the drive in the south he had thinned out the Naktong river line, and spread five South Korean Di- visions across the northern front. He concentrated power for the of- fensive which drove the North Ko- reans back to Chinju, and Pusan, the main American supply base, was safe again. Hundreds of the Reds retreated so fast toward Chinju that they (Continued on Page Two)