The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 14, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXV., NQ. 11,580 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS st St e Reds Mass 60 SUPERFORTS STRIKE TOWN NEAR SIBERIA Bombs Hit 17 Miles from | Russ Border-No Soviet Reaction Reported WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—®—The United States has given Russia a new and unmistakable token of its determination to fight the Korean war even at the risk of open Soviet intervention, A mission of American Air Force superfortresses, in a strike on a North Korean city, slammed down more than 500 tons of bombs so close to Russian Siberia—17 miles— that distant rumble of the attack probably was heard across the bor- der. This weekend bombing mission to the Northern Korean port city of Najin was one of the most daring and delicate operations of the war. The difference between putting Lombs down on a North Korean target or, through accident and error in navigation, having them fall on Soviet territory was a matter of about five minutes flying time for a big formation maneuver- ing at a speed of more than three miles a minute. But there was an even greatey calculated risk. How would Russia react to the appearance of Amer- ican planes, bombed and armed for combat, so close to her doorstep? There was no indication that the Soviet Air Force reacted to tiie Najin mission. Information re- ceived here said nothing of the sighting by the bomber mission of non-American aircraft. PURSE SEINERS 60 OUT AS SEASON OPENS TOMORROW The purse-seining season in Southeast Alaska opens tomorrow as per schedule, it was announced to- day by Clarence Rhode, regional director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Preliminary runs have been poor, and this gave bloom to rumors that the service would hold off the sea- son until the pink salmon showed up in more numbers. ‘. Rhode said it was too late to make changes now, although he said he didn’t expect catches to be great. The Washington Merry - Go-Round by JACK ANDERSON and FRED BLUMENTHAL Copyright, 1850. vy Bejl Syndicate, Ine.) (Ed. Note—While Drew Pear- son is on a brief vacation, his column will be written by mem- bers of his staff). ’/ASHINGTON — The American Embassy reports from Moscow that the Kremlin is delighted with the U. S. Senate's recent decision tc loan Dictator Franco $100,000,000. In fact, the Russians are already planning to use this as a new too! for anti-American propaganda. Thc Reds have a long list of quotes from Franco’s own lips, more poi- sonous than anything they could invent. Here are a few Francc quotes that the Communists will be flinging in our faces: 1937—(To Hitler) “Fervent wishes as the great German people ad- vance under the glorious emblem of the Swastika. Heil Hitler.” 1938—(To Hitler) “Cordial con- gratulations (on annexation of the Czechs).” Remember Lidice? 1941—“What joy to see the Ger- man bombérs one day punishing the insolence of the skyscrapers of New York.” Private Admission Though President Truman was plenty miffed when the Senate r°- jected four major nominations last week—the worst setback Congrese has handed him this session—hc admitted privately that he might have voted the same way. Truman made the concession at " (Continued op Page Four IPACIFIC COAST " ILWU MEETING " OPENS TUESDAY | SEATTLE, Aug. 14—(P—Delegates | | from Pacific Northwest locals of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (CIO) gather in North Bend, Ore., tomor- | row and Wednesday to decide what to do about: 1. The jailing of Longshore boss Harry Bridges. 2. The maritime security program. | 3. Possible wage increases. | The agenda of the two-day gath- | ering was disclosed here yesterday by William Getting, regional di- rector. The parley will attract dele- gates from union locals all up and down the coast as well as in the | Northwest. CLIMBERS COMB MT| WHITNEY SEARCHING FOR REYNOLDS HEIR LONE PINE, Calif., Aug. 14—#— Four veteran mountain climbers lowered themselves qver the east face of Mt. Whitney today in a last-hope search for Christopher Smith Reynolds, tobacco-heir son | of singer Libby Holman. | The climbers plan to search re- mote ledges and crevasses and, if unsuczessful, will remain on the na- tion's highest peak overnight and start anew tomorrow. The frozen body of Stephen Rice Wasserman, was found in a snowy | crevasse at the 11,500-foot level yes- terday, a week after the two 17-year old Eastern scions had set out to conquer Whitney’s toughest side. Scant hope was held by veteral searchers that young Reynolds is still alive, unless he wandered off for aid for Wasserman. Today's search will be concentrated on higher crevasses of the 14496-foot peak. Young Reynolds’ mother, former torchsinger Libby Holman, was ready to fly from Paris. The boy, heir to a $7,000,000 fortune, was born to Miss Holman shortly after her husband, Zachary Reynolds, was mysteriously slain. WORLD REVIEW Here's whats happening in the world outside Korea, politically and stherwise: STRASBOURG, France: Cons- :antin Tsaldaris of Greece proposed hat western European governments mmediately negotiate for a unifiec army to defend the continent ag- ainst the threat of Communist ag- gression. He asked the European council's consultative assembly fo antrust its president, Paul-Henti 3paak of Belgium, with carrying out preliminary steps. Winston Churchill, Britain's conservative leader, proposed such a unified army in a speech to the assemiy Friday and the assembly approved ‘he idea. London: Britain's Conservative and Liberal party leaders ask®d Prime Minister Attlee to recall Parliament from its summer recess zarlier than the Sept. 12 date he has set. Churchill, wartime Prime Minister, said Sept. 12 was “alto- zether too remote.” Brussels: Prince Baudouin, who has taken over the powers of his father, King Leopold, as ruler of Belgium, has named acting For-| eign Minister Paul Van Zeeland | Premier-Designate, charged with :he ticklish job of forming an all 3ocial Christian party cabinet. Tapei, Formosa: Nationalist China’s air force said it would con- tinue to patrol the Red China coast and attack Communist craft which might be used to invade Formosa, island stronghold of the Nationalists. The Air Force said it would de- fend Formosa in “full cooperation with our allied forces,” referring o the U. S. fleet ordered by Pres- ident Truman to defend Formosa. ULMER FATHER, SON REUNITED IN FAIRBANKS Already, Severin Ulmer of Wash- ington, D.C., has found his first trip to Alaska an eventful one. In Fairbanks, he saw his father for the first time in 40 years. Joe | Ulmer, old-time prospector in the Interior, is “quite a oharacter,” to quote his son. The Washington visitor is head of personnel for the U.S. Fish and !duct passes are to be dropped on {food and rest if they give up, that {cause why the bails should not be BULLETINS General MacArthur’s psychologic- al warfare branch says safe-con- concentrations of as well as bombs. The passes are printed in black and. red, in both English and Korean, the UN em- blem is painted on the passes. | Enemy troops are told they’ll get enefy troops— all they have to do is walk toward our lines with these passes held over their heads. A Chinese Nationalist paper In Hong Kong says the top Chinese Red leader Mao-Tze-Tung left his capital on August 11th, for an undisclosed destination. There is speculation that he has gone to Mukden, in Manchuria, to talk with Russian commanders. A message to the Hong Kong papers says Mao made his trip after getting cabled instructions from Stalin. The Chinese Nationalist Ambas- sador to the United States, Dr. Wellington Koo, plans to leave For- most for Washington on Wednes- day. Koo has been on Formosa since August first. He has been conferring with Nationalist offic- ials. In Japan, Japanese workers are laboring hard to rehabilitate great quantities of steel airstrip matting. T'he matting has been rusting in Japan for nearly five years—ever since the occupation forces wént into Japan. These workmen can refurbish about 750-thousand square feet of this matting in a week— enough for a five thousand foot runway 150 feet wide. The run- ways are desperately needed for air strips in Korea. Australian Prime Minister Rob- ert Menzies arrived in Tokyo .today to look dver Australian installations in Japan. Mengies was greeted at the airport by General MacArthsr. The Australian Prime Minister told newsmen that his country is working as fast at it can to speed the assignment of ground troops to Korea. But he said he could give no details about the Australian force that would be sent to Korc. A proud B-50 bomber—Lucky Lady the second—has crash-landed in the Arizona desert, Fortunately, all but one of the 11 crew mem- bers escaped injury. The plane s famous for making the first noj- stop round-the-world flight in 19% A St. Paul, Minnesota landmark —the Jewell Hotel—has been de- stroyed by fire., But firemen say there apparently was no loss of life. The government is trying to jail ten of the convicted Communist ieaders who are free on bail. At- torney General J. Howard McGrath says a Federal judge has ordered the Communist leaders to show revoked. August 17th is the date set for the hearing—New York will be the place. The White House continues Iits efforts to settle the dispute be- tween the nation’s top railroads and the uniong. One person tak- ing part in the conference says a very little progress has been ma&z, but there is yet a long way to go. The talks continue tomorrow mora- ing. The big Ford Rouge local of the CIO auto workers is cracking down on union officers suspected of Com- munism. At a hectic session, the local’s general council has ordered five unit officer tried as Cof- munist sympathizers. JET PLANES (OLLIDE AT ELMENDORF BASE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 14— (M—Two F-80-C jet fighters col- lided on the Elmendorf Air Force Base runway last evening during a takeoff. Neither pilot was in- Jured. | The colliding planes swereved off the runway and were enveloped in | a large puff of smoke. One of the craft was badly burned, the second only slightly damaged. | Public information officers said | only that one plane had suffered a “failure.” Neither would they idén- tify the two pilots. The -jets were attached to the 64th Fighter Interceptor Squadroh of the 57th Fighter Interceptor ! Wildlife Service, Wing, | i NATIONAL GUARD | ENLISTMENT IS NOT | DRAFT 'NSURANCE' Young men without previous mili- | tary service who now join the Na- tional Guard are still subject to be- ing drafted into the armed forces, John McCormick, Territorial direc- tor of selective service, warned to- day. Any. youth between the ages of 19 and 25 who joined the Guard since June 24, 1948, may be called up the same as any civilian, he said. The Selective Service, if it is found the draftee is eligible in other re- spects will draw up papers to have the wanted man discharged from the Guard so he may enter the army. Recent talk has gotten abroad, McCormick said, which gives the er- roneous impression that a member of the National Guard is “safe” from induction. Only young men not subject to call are those with previous mili~ tary service or those who joined the Guard previously, he said, and are still enlisted. WAR SUMMARY (By Associated Press) Central Front: Reds poise 60,000 troops along Naktong northwest of laegu for expected blow at Amer- can inland base. Americans afd 3outh Koreans wipe out probifig attacks on central sector. Red gen- cral offensive reported imminent. Changnyong £ector: On southern flank of central front, American 4th Division attacks Red bridge+ aead, gains up to a mile in drive with artillery and tank support on six-mile front 23 miles southwesl of Taegu. Eastern Sector: Red battalion holds Pohang, former U, S. supply sort; U. N. forces still hold air- strip, but planes no longer are using it. Southern Sector: Marines ard nfantry take hills outside rubbled Shinju. Air War: Tiny Tim, new Amer- .can 11.75-inch rocket, goes into iction, as Navy carrier planes use chem to good effect in attacks on Red supply lines. Other planes rake Red troops installations along ‘ront. Washington: Truce in partisan politics on Korea question asked as major parties trade charges. Con- gress leaders hope to get definite anti-subversion bill readied, wiis. demand expressed for stronger measure, TRANSPLANTING MIGHT IMPROVE PINK SALMON RUNS, SAYS ANDERSON Transplanting young fish from streams which now have good early pink salmon runs to those from which the early runs have disap- peared might -improve the fishing | picture in Southeast Alaska, C. L. Anderson, director of the Alaska | Department of Fisheries, said today. He said a small hatchery on a stream which now has an early run would provide “eyed eggs” or small fish for planting in the -streams’ from which the early runs have dis- appeared. “There are indications that such planting would restore the early runs to Southeast Alaska,” he said, “but in my opinion the success of such an experiment would depend on| whether or not the early runs dis- appeared because of over-fishing.” The planting could be successful if the disappearance of the early runs was due to over-fishing, he declared. . Opinion on the reason for the dis- appearance of the fish is divided, he said. In some quarters it is be- lieved the early run became depleted because of some natural condition such as low streams or too-cold winters; in others, that it was due to overfishing. Anderson said he believes it was due to a combination of the two fac- tors. ! Depletion of early runs caused| the opening of the fishing season | to be set back from June to Au-| gust in 1945. | The Alaska Department of Fish- eries has no funds available for| establishing a hatchery for the ven- ture which would be. “highly ex- perimental, but relatively inexpen- sive,” according to Anderson. {38.77. Demo Solon Asks Truce On Politics O'Mahoney_A;swers GOP, Charges of Votes Being | Sought Despite War WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — & — Senator Bricker (R-Ohio) contended in the Senate today that Congress ought to keep for itself the right to decide when and if wage and price controls are needed. He argued against granting that power to President Truman as pro- posed in pending economic controls legislation. To give wage-price powers to the President, he said, would create two dangers: First, a piecemeal approach would create inequities faster than they could be corrected. Second, the President would be subject to the tremendous pressure to control certain commodities, and having started a piecemeal system, he would be “powerless to stop gen- eral price and wage controls even if he should feel they were prema- ture.” Over the weekend two Republican lawmakers assailed the Truman ad- ministration’s handling of the pro- gram. Sen. O’Mahoney (D-Wyo), talking with reporters, called in reply for “a truce on partisan pol- itics.” “I think this is a very poor time for anyone—Democrats or Republi- cans—to challenge the motives of those who are called upon to make the extremely difficult decisions re- quired,” O’'Mahoney declared. “This of all times is a time for a truce on partisan politics.” O’Mahoney was replying to week- end attacks on the administration by Senators Aiken (R-Vt) and Mar- tin (R-Pa). Aiken predicted easy Senate pas- sage late this week of a House-| approved bill which would set up authority for wage-price-rationing curbs, but he said President Truman declined “for political reasons” to; ask Congress for these controls. | Mr. Truman did ask for immedi- ate power to allocate materials, set up priorities and curb credit. The bill which the House passed and which appears to face smooth sail- ing in the Senate would also give him authority, for use when he saw fit, to control prices and wages and impose rationing. Aiken contended that Mr. Tru-| man has his eye on the November elections and has been :“negligent in leaving the American people in | the dark about the gravity” of the| world situation. Martin accused the administra- | tion of a tendency to play politics with the nation’s security, and asked: “Can we wait until after the No- vember elections to tell the people of America the real truth? Can we place votes first?” STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 14 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 93%, Anaconda 32%, Curtiss- Wright 10%, International Harves-! ter 29%, Kennecott 61%, New York | Central 14%, Northern Pacific 17, U.S. Steel 36%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,280,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- | dustrials 21531, rails 62.08, utilities 1 o o 0o 0 0o 0 0 02 WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 65; minimum, 55. At. Airport—Maximum, 69; minimum, 51. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Continued fair and warm tonight and Tuesday. Low- est temperature tonight about 48 degrees. Highest Tuesday near 75. » ® PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today b City of Juneau — Trace; since August 1—1.14 inches; since July 1—11.07 inches. At Airport — 0.03 inches; since August 1—0.85 inches; since July 1—7.89 inches. ® 9 9 0 00 0 00 the American Legion, for the late“ | Fred Cameron and the late Harry | organization who passed away here {around Anchorage, told U, 8. Com- LEGION MEMORIAL SERVICES TONIGHT WILL HONOR TWO Cameron, Sperling Deaths | Recorded - Convention | Delegates Nominated Memorial services will be conduc- ted tonight by Juneau Post No. 4, Sperling, longtime members of that late last week. Cameron had “been a member of the Juneau Post for over 31 years and Sperling had also held mem- bership in the post for many years. Both were veterans of World War 1. Post Commander Bob Druxman an- nounced that Cameron will be post- humously awarded the Legion’s Cer- tificate of Merit for his many years of service to the organization. It had originally been intended to make such an award later this year but Cameron’s sudden death hast- ened the presentation. He will be the first member of the post to re- ceive this honor. Funeral services will be conducted by the Elks on Wednesday for Sperl- ing. The Legion and its subsidiary organization, the 40 et 8, will jointly conduct services on Thursday for Cameron. It was also announced today that nominations will be received this week and next week for post dele- gates to the annual American Le- gion Department of Alaska Con- vention to be held here over the Labor Day weekend, In the mean- time, arrangements for the conven- tion are to be developed further at tonight’s regular business session. i CONVICTED REDS MUST BE JAILED, SAYS GOVERNMENT NEW YORK, Aug. 14—P—The government charged today that 11 convicted Communist leaders are backing Communist forces in Kor- ea and elsewhgre, and thus “should not be at large jin this hour of national crisis.” U. S, Attorney Irving H. Saypol made public the government's affi- davit in support of its move to have the “American politburo” members —now free in bail—jailed while their appeals are being considered by the courts. All have been found guilty of criminal conspiracy and sentenced to prison terms up to five years. Saypol accompanied his affidavit with photostats of recent articles ‘n the Daily Worker, Communist aewspaper, assailing the United Na- tions action in Korea and de- nouncing “American war-makers.” One of the Daily Worker exhibits Saypol made public was a full-page article signed by three of the con- victed leaders. It said in part: ‘Not a cent, not a gun, not a plane for Wall Street's puppet regimes in Korea, Formosa, Vietnam.” The defendants myst show cause in Pederal court here next Thurs- day why they should not go te jail at once. STOWAWAY ON S5 BARANOF GETS TWO MONTHS JAIL TERM A 50-year-old man who stowed away on the steamer Baranof in Seward and rode the ship to Ju- neau was placed in federal jail to- day to serve a two-months term. Elmer Canary, who flew north a short time ago to look for a job missioner Gordon Gray he couldn't find any work, and wished to get back to Seattle, but had no money. So on Aug. 11 he boarded the Baranof in hopes of being carried south, but was discovered by crew members a short time after the ship departed the Gateway City. Henry Green, agent here for Al- aska Steamship Company, signed a complaint before Judge Grayu‘ charging Canary with stowing| away. Canary pleaded guilty to the charge and was committed to jail. CHILCOTIN IN SUNDAY The Chilcotin was in port here yesterday from 7 to 11 p.m. north- bound. by KOREAN WAR | U. N. Secrefary Believes| Fight Can Be Kept from Spreading (By the Associated Press) i With the greatest Communist of- fensive of the Korean®war possibly only hours away, Red forces made probing stabs across the Naktong| river northwest of Taegu today while they massed some 60,000 men for their big push on United Nations’ forward bases. The Reds threw two underwater bridges across the river. The stone- and-log bridegs are a foot below water, hidden from sight of Ameri- can planes but capable of holding armor and artillery for the new thrust. The fifth anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan—Aug. 15— dawned with the Red offensive ap- | parently imminent in the Waegwan area, 12 air miles northwest of Taegu, main American inland base. August 15 was the target date of the North Koreans for setting up au | All-Korea government taking in the whole country under a single Par- liament. But Seoul, where it was to meet, has been under heavy air at- tack. The North Korean Communist radio at Pyongyan reported a dele- gation of 22 officials from Red China were in the North Korean capital, probably in connection with Aiberation day. The Red radio, in another broadcast, accused U.8. air and naval forces of making barbaric attacks “against a peaceful people.” “No Road Back” While United Nations forces braced for the expected Red on- slaught, U. N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie told reporters in Oslo there is “no road back from Korea except a victory for the principle ot Justice over the principle of power politics.” He said he believes, how- ever, it is possible to keep the Ko- rean war from broadening into | World War III % In today's fighting, U. S. F-80 Shooting Star jet pilots slammed rockets, bombs and machinegun fire into enemy positions along the Naktong front, and B-26 light bomb- ers flew night intruder missions as far north as Seoul. The greatest threat along the front was at Waeg- wan, where the Reds were assemb- ling their greatest force. A success- ful Red attack on Taegu here would clear the way for a final drive on Pusan, main U.S. supply base on the southeast tip of the peninsula. Yanks Move Up On the southern flank of this ominous threat, U.S. 24th Division troops, moving up in a heavy rain behind 45-ton Pershing tanks, shoved North Korean forces back as much as a mile in their swollen salient across the Naktong in the Changnyong sector, 23 miles south of Taegu. Point-blank artillery fire met the Americans on this six-mile front from guns the Reds ferried | across in darkness. An Eighth Army communique said all elements of the 24th Division made some progress in the Chang- nyong counterattack. Division head- quarters expressed cautious optim- ism about the Changnyong sector | and said the situation now was “highly satisfactory.” As the rain lifted, US. fighter | planes went back into action on the | Changnyong :front. The Army said | _the preponderance of U.S. air power | and artillery on the front was giving the Americans an advantage. On the southern front, US. Ma- rines captured hills just outside the | rubbled Communist southern anchor at Chinju. American 25th Infantry Division troops probed the hinter- land looking for a battalion of iso- | lated Reds cut off in the southern | battle, which now has been slowed down on both sides in anticipation of the big push to the north. | On the northeast rim of the curl- | ing front, a Red battalion held the port of Pohang, whigh had been dne of the Americans’ supply bases on the coast, but South Korean troops, challenged them there and Kigye, jumpoff point for the Red guerrilla attack on Pohang and its airstrip, six miles to the southeast of the port. Planes no longer are using this | ,000 For All-Out Offensive TRIPLE TITLIST Betty Smith, of Charleston, | Va. won.her third beauty i lina year at the University of rolina when she was named May. Queen., North and Infantry still hold it from the attacking Reds. Big New Rocket The “Tiny Tim,” a big new Ameri- can 11.75-inch rocket, has gone into combat with repoxted good results. Fired from carriertbased Navy Corsalr fighters, the armor piercing rockets knocked out 13 enemy loco- motives and damaged 23 more, blasted eight ammunition cars, set afire two fuel trains and beat up seven troop-train cars. One “Tiny Tim” rocket knocked out a brid: ¢ at, Chungju, 90 miles northwest of ‘Taegu, on the Red supply line. Like the 3.5-inch bazooka anti- “Tiny “Fim" got its baptism in the Korean war. It is considered the most powerful rocket-type weapon carried by a plane in combat. Other U.8. and Australian planes poured rocket and machinegun fire on enemy concentratioss in the buildup area around Waegwan, 12 air miles northwest of Taegu, where the Reds have placed about four elite divisions facing outnumbered defenders. . Along the entire 140-mile front, the Reds have some 15 divisions, possibly 150,000 men. . Facing the Reds’ divisions at Waegwan, the critical area, is the U.S. First Cavalry Division, which has been fighting off probing Red attacks across the river. The First Cavalry wiped out 800 Reds wiio sneaked across the river Monday. TAYLOR ELIMINATED iN SOAP BOX DERBY FIRST ROUND TRIALS AKRON, O., Aug. 14—P—A lanky 15-year-old youngster from Charles- ton, W.Va,, who carried a Sunday School Testament as a good luck charm, is the nation’s new Soap Box Derby champion. Harold - D. Williamson calmly steered his streamlined black racer to victory yesterday to win the 13th Derby Race before a crowd of some 50,000. i A straight “A" student, the freckled youth will receive a $5,000 four-year scholarship for taking the All-American event sponsored by ° Chevrolet and a host of newspapers. Williamson had to win five heats and conquer a field of 146 opponents in his story-book victory. Six years ago, he was in bed with rheumatic fever. Gerald L. Taylor, Juneau, Alaska, was eliminated in the first round. He was inches behind the winner of his heat. THIS WAS THE DAY Here's an ironic reminder. It's August 14th today—and that was a big day for us five years ago. Remember? It was V-J Day, the end of the Second World War. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah from Skagway due at 7 am. tomorrow and salls for Vancouver at 8 a.m. tomorrow. Aleutian from Seattle due Tues- day at noon. Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle Thursday. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- } important strip, but American tanks rive from Vancouver tomorrow,