The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,584 Yanks Counterattack Enemy Taeg Postpones Wedding ANCHORAGE " PLUMBERS J EAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —_— | END STRIKE Threat Lifted on Defense | Projects—No Defails Are Given SEATTLE, Aug. 18—®—An agree- ment ending a strike of plumbers that threatened $200,000,000 to $400,- 00,000 worth of Alaskan defense work was reached at a meeting here this afternoon. Some 225 plumbers in Anchorage | Local 367, Plumbers and Steamfit- ters’ Union (AFL), were involved | in the strike, which began July 26.: Federal conciliators announced the agreement, without giving any de- tails of the settlement. | FIRES RAGE IN PACIFIC NW FORESTS PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 18.—P— Fires roared through widely scat- téred sections of the tinder-dry Pa- cific Northwest today (Friday), with a 4,000-acre blaze in California’s | Modoc Forest, just south of Kla-| math Falls, the biggest. | South of Corvallis, the planer mill | of the Precision Lumber Company | was destroyed at an estimated loss | of $25,000. The Moore Timber Products Com- pany mill near the California line south of Grants Pass, was saved early today—at least temporarily. Far to the north in Gifford Pin- chot National Forest near Randle, Wash., fire burned 150 to 200 acres i | of brush and reproduction timber. | The U. S. Forest Service reported the 200 men battling it hoped to have it under control late today. Sixty men were attacking an un- controlled blaze in Oregon’s upper Willamette Valley, on Den_dwoorl Creek west of Eugene. Another fire south of Grants Pass, near where the Moore mill was saved, jumped the Grants Pass- Crescent City highway and headed into Siskiyou National Forest tim- per. The fire dispatcher in Port- land estimated 600 acres had been burned. R £ B B SEATTLEITES HERE Among Seattleites newly regis- at .the Baranof Hotel are Sz Christiansen, Prudence’ P. Mori, Cornelfa“ N. Briones, H. H. Dént,! Edward Gwin, Mr. antl Mrs. Frank LeClercq, C. E: Petersen, ahd Ben I'fleW ashing.fon Merry - Go- Round By JACK ANDERSON and FRED BLUMENTHAL Topyrisht, 15.0. Dy Bell Eyndicate, Ine.) i (Ed. Note—While Drew Pear- son is on & brief vacation, his column will be written by mem- bers of his staff). mSHINGTON—Right-wing Re- publicans and Dixiecrats are sec- retly plotting a political alliance to capture control of Congress by 1952, then to take over the: elec- toral college—key to the Presi- dency. ‘We ‘ ‘have documentary proof of this daring plan, which already has the secret backing of nationally known conservatives. In brief, the plan calls for Re- publicans and southern Democrats to join forces without changing party affiliations. However, they would merge their seniority and run Congress jointly. Then the next step would be to organize a similar coalition to dominate the electoral college and name a con- servative President. The ringleader of this amazing plot is a stocky, ruddy-faced North Carolinian, named J. Harvie Wil- liams, Though comparatively un- known, he claims to have support of such GOP leaders as Senators Karl Mundt of South Dakota and John Bricker of Ohlo, Congress- man Charlie Halleck of Indiana sz i, AT 2 (Continued on Page Four) I - Gertrude #Gorgeous Gussie” Moran, 26-year-old tennis star fom Santa Monica, Calif., and her fiance, Anthony Davenport, British-born Cal- cutta businessman, are shown in Madras, India, where their engage- ment was announced after a whirlwind romance. Moran, ® Wirephoto. whose lace-trimmed panties were the 1949 semsation at Wimbledon, England, has said their marriage has been postponed indefinitely, but that it does not mean their engagement is canceled. | i Since then Miss OUTLYING COMMUNITIES IN DEFENSE PROGRAM Gov. Ernest Gruening today gave reassurance to residents outside of Juneau in the matter of civil de- | fense plans. 1 | “This is a matter of protection | | for the entire area,” he said. “Thel | planning of the Civil Defense Coun- | it headed by R. E. Robertson is for |everyone living from Thane to Eagle |River, and on both sides of Gas- tineau Channel.” | Residents of Thane, West Juneau |and the Glacier Highway district | had asked the Governor to include !them in plans of the local organ- | ization. | Governor Gruening said he had | talked with Robertson and Col. J. I D, Alexander, and all agreed that | the entire area should be covered. | Colonel Alexander, who is respon- | sible for civil defense of all Alaska, |was booked on Pacific Northern | Airlines today to the westward, for ,the Alaska Civil Defense meeting {at Mount MzKinley Park this week- | end. { {NEW RECORD IS SET BY SOUTHWARD SWIMMING ALASKA KING SALMON A king salmon carrying an Al- aska Department of Fisheries tag has finned its way to a new world record. It swam about 1,100 miles from Hoktaheen, near Cape Spencer, to St. Helens, Ore, downstream from Portland on the Columbia River, before being taken in a gillnet by E. L. Browning—from June 27 to August 3. The former record was 1,000 miles, according to C. L. Anderson, director of the Alaska fisheries department. The salmon setting that record was tagged last year by Robert R. Parker off the northwest coast of Washington. | It swam up the Sacramento River | before being taken. Parker, now with the Alaska | Department of Fisheries, was also | responsible for tagging the new record-holder, which grew three | inches in length during its south- ward swim, according to depart- ment records. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Kathleen scheduled to arrive from Vancouver tomorrow. Alaska scheduled to arrive Sun- day. Prince George scheduled to leave Vancouver today and arrive Mon- day. Aleutian due here Sunday from Seward. Baranof scheduled to sail tomor- row from Seattle, due here Tuesday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver tomorrow and ar- rive here Tuesday. Freighter Chena scheduled to sail from Seattle Aug. 24. i U.S. ACCEPTS | TURK TROOPS WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. — ®— The United States today accepted | Turkey's offer to send a combat force of 4,500 men to Korea. The State Department in an- nouncing the acceptance said the United States is “deeply gratified” at Turkey's offer. The Turkey offer is the third to be formally accepted by the United States. Thailand’s offer to send 4,000 officers and men was formally accepted earlier this week as was a | Philippine offer to send a regi-| ental combat team of about 5,000 | men. | TAKU ROAD WILL BE RECOMMENDED AT/ TRADE BOARD MEET Miss Susy Winn left today via Alaska Coastal Airways enroute to| Prince George, B.C., where she will represent the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at the annual convention | of the Associated Boards of Trade of .Central British Columbia. Juneau Chamber resolutions which | will be introduced at the meeting | include, ‘recomendations for the! construction of Taku valley road, interior coastal highway from Haz- elton, B.C. to Atlin, and the year- round maintenance of the Haines Cutoff. Of primary importance is the Taku road which would link Ju- neau to either the Alaska Highway or the proposed coastal highway and | would open up the Tulsequah mln-i ing area. Hawaii Statehood Urged fo Be Pushed By Nation's Papers WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — (A — Samuel Wilder King, chairman of the Hawaii Statehood Commission, appealed to the nation’s newspapers today for help in bringing the Ha- | waii statehood bill to a vote in the | Senate. King, a former Delegate to Con- gress from Hawaii, asked newsmen to stress both the national and in- ternational implications involved in the Hawaii statehood issue. If the bill is allowed to die with- out Senate action, he said, “it would be a terrible letdown for the people of Hawaii.” King was President-of the Hawaii Constitutional Convention which !drntbed a proposed state constitu- | tion. jof the United States. ! the most effective way to halt air PRESENT RADAR NET WONT STOP PEARL HARBOR REPETITION By ELTON C. FAY (AP Military Affairs Reporter) WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—(#—An enemy probably could make an aerial Pear]l Harbor strike at almost any place in the United States to- day and get some bombs down on the target. It is not considered within the realm of possibility that the present sparsely spotted radar system — even though on a round-the-clock operating basis — would detect all approaching bombers or that exist- ing fighter forces would destroy every one of them. Competent military sources doubt if more than a quarter of an attack- ing bomber force coming in over the, Polar regions could be knocked down before it crossed the northern border They point out that in World War 11, in areas where there was a high concentration of fighter defense and elaborate radar warning system, destruction of 10 percent of an at- tacking force was considered excel- lent. Air Force strategists hold that attacks on the U.S. mainland would be the destruction of bases from which the attacks are launched and of the industrial centers supporting the attacks. It is on this theory that the retaliatory strike by long range B-36's, B-29's and B-50's are planned. Following this same reasoning, defense officials believe that the bases for those planes, in the con- tinental U.S. and Alaska, would bé priority enemy targets, the spots for which - sneak raiders would head first. Making the bases useless for launching retaliatory strikes would be of prime importance to the en- | emy. 4 Next in importance would be the great industrial areas and the‘ nerve-center of government and military direction, Washington. Truman - Wherry Fight Flames Anew; Sen. Taft Fires Blast| WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—®—An exchange of sharp words between President Truman and Senator Wherry (R-Neb)—both used the ex- pression “contemptible”—piled more fuel today on the political fire blaz- ing in Congress over the adminis- tration’s foreign policies. Mr. Truman took sharp issue at yesterday’s White House news con- | ference with a Senate statement by ‘Wherry. the Republican floor leader, that the blood of Americans dying in Korea is on the shoulders of Sec- retary of State Acheson. Permitting reporters to quote him directly, an unusual procedure, the President said: “That is a contemptible statement and beneath comment.” Two hours later Wherry fired back that the President’s “failure to ‘remove Acheson, after repudiating his stupid foreign policies, is con- temptible.” “It was Acheson’s consistent ap- peasement and coddling of Russia that paved the way for the Mos- cow-directed Communists to over- run China and for the Moscow- directed North Koreans to spring| upon the Republic of South Ko-| rea,” the Nebraska Senator declared in a statement. He added: “In Korea we are now reaping the whirlwind of Acheson’s blun- ders.” At Cleveland, Senator Taft (R- Call "'Ratfle,” But "SCRATCH - FISHING" IN SE ALASKA AS 'RUNS REMAIN LIGHT Southeast Alaska fishermen are | “scratch-fishing” — spending most {of their time looking for fish—as the pink salmon run remains weak, | Clarence Rhode, Alaska regional di- { rector of the Fish and Wildlife) Service, said today. He returned last night from a | two-day trip to Ketchikan, He said | | the fishing there, while it is better than in the northern part of South- east Alaska, is not up to normal. Behm Canal and Boca de Quadra, in the Ketchikan area, have had the best runs but they are “nothing to shout about,” Rhode said. He reported that a slight improve- ment has been seen on the west coast of Southeast Alaska, but there is still no strong showing. Streams known to produce early runs of pinks are well seeded, Rhode said, but there are a good number of | | streams remaining which will not be | | seeded until a volume of fish appear. Low streams resulting from con- tinued dry weather are keeping:| | some salmon from going up to | spawn, he stated, and leaving them “just that much more apt to be taken.” “Rain would be welcome,” he said. “It would permit the salmon to go upstream and spawn.” The pink salmon run in 1948 was | late, and there is still time for the | pink salmon run to pick up, he de- clared. He said the escapement of chum salmon has been better than average this year. | | | | i They Invented Bear Couldn’t Stop Shaking CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug, 18—(®— | Hunters, animal psychologists, be-i haviorists and nature lovers may | be interested in a bear call invented | up here. The inventors, known informally in these parts as Shorty and Black- ie, no longer are. Period. It happened a few days ago when Shorty, a man of imagination, de- | cided to rig up a bear call. After all, he ruminated, there are duck | calls, crow calls, turkey calls and moose calls. With not much el to do except walk, Shorty dropped a few small | stones in an empty tin can. That | was his bear call. He gave it a few | vigorous rattles as he and Blackie were returning to town from some | mineral areas in the Copper River country. “Woof,” was the almost instant | response. And a huge, vicious 100k~ | ing brown bear put in a quick ap. pearance, Shorty and Blackie step; ped up their pace but continuing to rattle the can—perhaps they were so scared they couldn’t let go. And soon the air was full of un- friendly “woofs” and the trail full of unfriendly big, bold brown bears. | They finally had to shoot théir| way past one which blocked their | trail. In all they counted 27 of the | bruins. The idea is not for sale. have it—free. | ANCHORAGE MEET PLANNED FOR CIVIL DEFENSE PROGRAM ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 18— (P—City, territorial and federal of- | ficials will meet here the last four days in August to discuss civllmn‘ defense and the Alaska public works ; You can i | Ohio), joined in, saying: “My chief criticism of the admin- | istration is that I don't think they | have a plan and know where they, are going. And they haven't told the people.” GAME MANAGEMENT CHIEF COMING HERE Jesse Thompson, chief of the branch of game management of the Fish and Wildlife Service, is ex- pected to arrive here from Wash- ington, D.C., tomorrow, Clarence Rhode, regional director, said today. Thompson heads the enforcement division of the service. He will re- main in Southeast Alaska for about three weeks, Rhode said. | i | for ‘revised territorial and federal program, Mayor Z. J. Loussac said today. Mayor Loussac said the represen- | tatives of the six major cities and | other officials will consider the need | laws governing municipalities. STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Aug. 18—(®—Clos-| |ing quotations of Alaska Juneau | Mine stock today is 2 Amercian |can 96, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss- | wright 10%, International Harvest- er 31, Kennecott 63%, New York | Central 14%, Northern Pacific 17%, U. 8. Steel 38%. Pound $2.80%, |Canadian Exchange 90.87%. | Sales today were 1,780,000 shares, | Averages today were: industrials 1219.23, rafls 63.39, utilities 39.62. SURPLUS GOODS ILWU CAUCUS ]largesl Allied u Drive Gains Roll PULLS OUT OF AsNorth Koreans Get “Hell WORLDUNION NORTH BEND, Ore, Aug M—The CIO Longshoremen’s cau- cus today voted to pull out of the left-wing Maritime Federation of the World and the World Federa- tion of Trades Unions. The action automatically ended |of the Maritime Federation of the| World, the caucus chairman ruled. The vote, 63 to 9, was reported in a statement issued at the noon recess of the closed meeting. The wide margin surprised ob- servers because supporters of Bridges, President of the longshore union, were strong enough to or- ganize the caucus and appeared able to beat off any right-wing moves. Yesterday the caucus voted to go along with the governments mari- time security program provided it doesn't go too far. DOCKERS REFUSE T0 UNLOAD RUSS FURS FROM LINER W YORK, /fug. 18—M—Long- s n refused today to unload Russian furs which arrived on the British liner Mauretania. The men, members of Local 824, AFL International Longshoremen’s Association, also voted not to handle | any goods from Russia in the future. | Members of two other longshore- | men’s locals refused earlier to un-| load shipments of Russian crabmeat | from other ships. The furs aboard the Mauretania | were valued at $138,000. Presumably | they will be returned to England | like the crabmeat which dock work- | ers refused to handle. "FREEZE" MADE WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—{P—The | government today ordered a “freeze” on the sale of its surplus property. The reason: all property will be! looked at again to see if it is needed for defense. i The freeze order covers war plants and supplies, equipment and ma- terial, civilian and military alike— regardless of previous authority for disposal. Jess Larson, who has charge of | the disposal of surplus property,| said in a statement: | “Property declared excess to the ! needs of an agency must be screened | with all other federal agencies be- fore it can be declared surplus to all needs of the government.” NEW YORK TO ALASKA VIA OUTBOARD MOTOR IS AIM OF BROTHERS ALBANY, N.Y., Aug. 18—®—Two brothers who plan to chug their way in a 14-foot outboard motor boat over inland water routes to Alaska finished the first leg of their journey here. Capt. Hank Barrow and his brother, Carroll, 42, began their 6,000-mile journey yesterday at Saugherties, about 40 miles south of here on the Hudson river. Barrow is a 42-year-old wartime | Merchant Marine officer. Their boat has a 10-horsepower motor. After reaching the Pacific Coast by crossing Canada, they plan to follow the Inside Passage from Prince Rupert to Ketchikan, Alaska. They expect the winter freeze to force them to wait until spring be- fore moving from Eastern Canada to Sault St. Marie. Barrow has spent several years in Alaska and was a captain of a salmon fishing boat there. He will write accounts of the trip for a group of newspapers. SPEEDER FINED Jacquelyn Fisher was fined $25 in| U. 8. Commissianer Gordon Gray’s court today after pleading guilty to a charge of speeding 55 miles per hour on the Douglas Highway. The complaint was signed by John P. Monagle of the Alaska Highway Patrol. | | | | [ By The Associated Press United Nations troops, tanks and |planes stalled and then counter- |attacked a menacing drive of 30,- 1000 Reds from the northwest on | Taegu today . Southwest of Taegu, U. 8. doughboys and Marines gave |Harry Bridges' Honorary Presidency‘a crack Red division a “hell of & licking,” and on two other fronts U. N. forces rolled ahead in the best day's winnings of the Korean War. While Allied tanks, air bombs, ar- tillery and troops lashed back at the Reds on the sector northwest jof Taegu, key U. N. advance base {now being cleared of civillans, all | American troops on the Changn- |yong sector, 23 miles southwest of | Taegu, advanced in a push against |a bridgeehtad of 12,000 Commun- ists across the Naktong River. Maj. Gen. John H. Church, siz- ‘ing up this triumph, said the Red Fourth Division “certainly has tak- en a hell of a licking. I don't think |that division will do much fighting for a while.” The Americans gained up to three miles on this important front, chas- ed many Reds back across the river, and hoped to reach the river bank by nightfall, | Pohang Retaken South Korean troops recaptured Pohang on the east coast, taken by the Reds in a surprise drive last week. Recapture of the port, once the No. 2 supply base for U. N. forces was an important victory which permitted U. S. planes once again to use its airstrip six miles to the southeast. Kigye, ihland from Pohang, also was retaken. On the deep southern front, west of Masan Port, U. S. 25th Infantry Divison troopsi lashed at the North Korean Sixth Division and drove it back with losses after the Reds had launched a two-pronged at- |tack. The Red retreat was a dis- jorderly one. Some of the dead the Communists left behind apparently had belonged to the Chinese Com- munist Army. The Reds attacked at dawn, wen some ground, and then lost it all by night. Korean Indeepndence The United States was on record in the U. N. Security Council for unification of all Korea as an in- dependent country. U. 8. Chief Delegate Warren R. Austin laid down this policy at Lake Success, N. Y., last night in a session once more marked by a valn effort to break a procedural blockade im- | {posed by Soviet Delegate Jakob A.| Malik, Council President for Aug- ust. Austin did not stfpulate whether the U. 8. thinks U. N. forces should go beyond the 38th parallel ’"I chasing the Reds back. ¢ The United Nations s Setting up | a relief organization to care for some 1,500,000 South Korean war refugees, according to detnllsi cabled from Pusan, the main U. N. base there. Arrangements were concluded lasi week under Gen. MacArthur's direction . Taegu Refugees A new mass of refugees was be- ing added to the burden by the evacuation of Taegu, and the South Korean government itself went on| to another unspecified emergency capital, as the thunder of Red guns was heard in the hills to the north- west. Some Red shells falling in Taegu near the railway station had caused some panic among the pop- ulation, but this subsided. Refugees have poured into Taegu ahead of the Red advance from the north, increasing the ever-present threat of guerrilla infiltration be- hind United Nations lines. The Americans threw their 45- ton Pershing tanks into the count- erattack on the north central front. The U. S. 27th Regiment and the South Korean First Division car- ried the thrust. The Red threat, three divisions strong, had emerged phoenix-like from the area drench- ed with bombs by U. S. B-29s Wednesday. They had driven south from Kunwi, 25 miles north of Taegu, and captured Kumwha, 13 miles north of the emergency capi- tal. Red Atrocities Grim doughboys attacked with the knowledge of new Red atroci- ties. A massacre of 39 U. 8. pris- oners of war was discovered Thurs- day on Hill 303, bloody position recaptured by the U. S. First Cav- alry Division. The victims’ hands and feet were tied. Three American Of a Licking” Near Key City soldiers who survived the massacre identified two Red Korean pris- oners as having been among the group which carried out the execu- tions. The U. N. forces scored their most impressive victory on the } Changnyong front, southwest of Taegu, where Marines and 24th Infantry Division troops gained up to three miles. More than a bat- talian—1,000 men—of Communists fled back across the river. Some Reds voluntarily crossed to U. 8. lines anc surrendered. An official spokesman for the 24th Division said the combined American forces had driven to a point where they could command al Ithe strategic ground in the Changnyong bend of the river, and they expected to reach the river bank during the night. American and Australian planes flew more than 500 sorties Friday, mostly in support of ground forces, and claimed destruction of 13 Red anks and large amounts of equip- nent. B-29s went out in force to strike at the North Korean com- nunications system. GOP ALASKA PLATFORM OUT Fourth Division Republicans nailed down six “for” planks and two “against” planks in the party platform yesterday. They came out against importar tion of furs from Russia, and the one percent territorial property ax. They favored: 1. An initiative and referendum law. 2. Election of “our own Gov- ernor.” 3. Preferential employment of resident Alaskan workers in both private industry and governmental service. 4. Allocation of $200,000 in Territorial funds to match $800,000 in government funds for aid to Alaska farmers in a revolving fund. 5. Additional road improvement and airport development in outlying districts. 6. Aid for the University of Alaska and public schools of the Territory. . g Democrats have not yet an- nounced , their platform. AIR FORCE UNITS TO REMAIN IN ALEUT | BASES FOR SERVICE WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — (® — The scheduled Withdrawal of Air Force units from outlying bases in the Aleutians has been cancelled at a result of the Korean conflict and the bases are now busy handling air traffic to the Far East, the Defense Department said last night. The withdrawal of Air Force serv- ice units from some of the outlying bases had been scheduled July 1 as an economy measure. The affected units were service, not combat organizations. ® o 0 0 0 0 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 71; minimum, 48. At Airport—Maximum, 71; minimum, 40. FORECAST (Junean and Viemity) Continued fair with little change in temperature to- night and Saturday. Lowest temperature tonight 48 with highest Saturday 75 degrees. PRECI1PITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — None; since August 1—1.14 inches; since July 1—11.07 inches. At Atlrport None; since August 1—0.85 inches; since July 1—7.89 inches. @00 eecdecscevcccccnnooe