The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 21, 1950, Page 1

A 3 ‘ e - NO MONEY FOR PALMER S " i Iy 1 » 5 ] 1 THE DAILY ALASKA. EMPIRE VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,586 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS REDS LOSE 15,000 IN 3-DAY SLASHING OR JUNEAU NOW, STATES S(HWAMM? | Payment of federal participatlng' funds have been held up and an investigation is being made of the proposed Palmer airport according to G. 8. “Tony” Schwamm, Terri- torial Director of Aviation. In a signed statement delivered to The Empire today, Schwamm criticized the adverse publicity re- ceived by the Palmer transaction in which leading newspapers of the Territory had pointed out the in- crease of land values which would have returned to the Territorial government money it had invested in the Palmer airport prior to the time that Alaska came under the Federal Airport Act. Several Alaska newspapers have been highly critical of the entire Palmer transaction pointing out: that the Federal government was paying more than the property is worth. Sen. Hugh Butler (R-Neb) last week demanded a Senate m-| vestigation of the deal. Schwamm's statement follows in full: “Participating funds have been withhheld on the construction of the Palmer municipal airport by the CAA upon word from the Wash- ington office to cease any payments ! until a complete investigation and appraisal of the Palmer airport property are completed. “There has been no indicatfon at this time that participating funds, for other projects will be withheld. However, I do feel that if there is more adverse or unfavorable pub- licity given the airport program it is quite possible that all participat- ing funds may be withheld uncll‘ each project is investigated in de- tail. Naturally this will take consid- i erable time and not allow us to. complete our constriction under the even now too short construction | season. 3 “In regard to the extension of the | Juneau airport I have every reason to believe that due to the unfavor- able publicity given the airport pro- gram it is very possible that the extension of the Juneau airport will not be authorized this year as the; CAA is going to carefully scrutinize this project due to the proposed Senate investigation. “Partial payments have not been withheld on the uncompleted floats in southeast Alaska but due to the present investigation there has been | a change in Federal policy of not making any partial payments on seaplane facilities while they are still in the construction, floating or tow- ing stage but must be properly moored at their designated location The Washington Merry - Go - Round By JACK ANDERSON and FRED BLUMENTHAL (Copyrisht, 1980. 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). ashington — President Truman has received some hlunt advice from the former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, suggesting that he fire Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. Mrs. Roosevelt expressed her views last week in a confidential letter to the President, following his categorical statement that he would keep Johnson and Secretary of State Acheson in his Cabinet as long as he remains in the White House. Writing as a private citizen, the former First Lady suggested that Truman might have qualified this by saying he would keep Johnson and Acheson “as long as they do al good job.” She pointed out that every President occasianally finds it necessary to make changes in his cabinet and it ‘isn't a good idea to “freeze” a man in an import- ant position. “ Injecting a more personal note, Mrs. Roosevelt wrote that it was apparent to her from the tremen- dous volume of anti-Johnson mail she was receiving that the public had lost confidence in the Secre-: tary of Defense. In view. of this| sentiment and in the interest of| (Continued on Page Four) {big blue eyes and a charm dis- | lnncuvely all her own. AIRPORTS before any payments will be made. , “As the ‘present Federal Airport | ' Aid Act will be concluded in 1953 I | ask your cooperation in expediting 'and assisting in any way that you| can the Alaska Aeronautics and | Communications Commission in! speeding up the administrative op- eration of the large program we have outlined for Alaska.” Yours very truly, G. S. SCHWAMM, Director of Aviation. 192 CARRIED BY ALASKA COASTAL | WEEKEND FLIGHTS ‘Weekend flights by Alaska Coast- al Airlines carried a total of 192 passengers with 74 departing, 173 arriving and 45 on interport flights. Passengers for Skagway were: Fred Jacobsen Jack McBar, Jeanne Renshaw, Svend Thorpe, Fred Mar- jlow, Mr. McMickle, Mrs. Pat Holm- | es, Miss Patsie Holmes, William Paul, Jr. i For Haines: Jane Armstrong, Lil- | lian Fuson, Mrs. Jack Means, Char- | lotte Means, Lee Donnelly, Alice Armstrong, Mrs. Mary Willard, Henry Brown, Jams Donnelly, Mr. and Mrs, John Monagle. For Ketchikan: Ace Williams, | Victor Klose, H. M. Stilly, G. H.| Curtis, M. J. Winninghoff, V. C. Forbes. [ For Petersburg: Fred Canine,| Mrs. E. C. Reynolds. For Wrangell: T. P. Hansen.' For Gustavus: Alice White, Joe Frydlo. For Pelican: Tom Dyer, Alex Falkern, Art Sagorsky, Betty Ben-| ish. For Hoonah: Jennie Marks. For Ice Cap and return: Mr. Parks, Ruth Rogall, Olive Mon- tell, Virginia MacLean, Tula Jack- son, Mrs. Roland Burrows, Mr. and Mrs. F. Countryman. For Sitka: Gloria Netrower, Herbert Gray, Lloyd Dean, Art Peterson, Bobby Slayden, Inez Jones, George Hemnes, Mrs. Cash- | 31, Kathleen Sullivan, Mr. and| Mrs. Benny Bell, Cary E. Powell, | Roy Hendrick, Mable C. Hend- rick, Col. F. P, Andrews, Maj. Earl | Kline, Capt. Melvin A .Johnson., For Pelican: Frances Gower$, Ed Gwinn, For Thayer Lake and return: Robert Stutte, Walter Stutte, Mr. Wyss, L. Scharpenberger, H. Brad- | shaw, For C. N. For For For For ren. From Funter, Sam Pekovitch. From Sitka: W. Blankenship,! Mr. and Mrs. Provance, Mr. and | Mrs. Eubanks and two children, Neil Anderson, Art Griffin, Mable | and Roy Hendricks, Cary E. Pow- ell, Wilbur Hendricks, Inez Jones, R. Duval, H. C, Heal, Gail Huhns, Betty Jean Roberts, Mrs. Wright, Bib Givson, Monty Colby, D. C. Priesner, Mr. and Mrs, C. Semal, R. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Nus- baum, Bill Lievers, Mr. and Mrs. John Tenneson, Jr., Dr. and Mrs. F. P. Cady, Dr. and Mrs, A. C. Christensen, Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Plumb, Mrs Dillard, Mr. Werenski. From Skagway: Jeane Renshaw, Fred Jacobsen, Svend Thorpe, Wil- liam Paul, Jr, W. Warren, Mr. McMeckle, Mrs. L. Simenstad, D. R. Beck. - From Haines: Lee Donnelly,! Cherie Powell, Mr. and Mrs. Ned Sianek, Roy and Mabel Hend- ricks, Joe Johnson, Frank Met- calf, Wes Turner, James Don- nelly Bob Howell R. R. Roberts, John Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. Al Brown, Mr. and Mrs. John Grif- fin, Mr. and Mrs. St. Claire. Prom Tulsequah: H. Cox. From Pelican: Mrs, Henry Mu- seth, From Excursion Inle*: Leon Ag- caoili. Hawk Inlet: Briones. Chatham: Gordon Shaw. Todd: Stanley Elkum. Tenakee: M. Quinto. Taku Lodge: William War- P. P. Mori,!| passengers were: Then of course, In the cast, is the only girl, Denise Darsel, with the TrainmenWalk | “isn’t seizure the last resort?” | | | | jsal: water meets the fresh. Out in Demand OverPg,Hours WASHINGTON —(P— Trainmen | walked out in three key terminals today, and President Truman call- ed-on his top labor adviser to make another effort to head off a na- tionwide railroad strike. He ordered John R. Steelman, Presidential assistant, to get re- presentatives of the railroads and | unions together in another attempt to reach an agreement. Charles G. Rose, Presidential se- cretary, said Mr. Truman then will review the situation again before deciding what to do next. “If this fails,” a reporter asked, “You will have to draw your own conclusions,” Ross said. The President, Ross said, direct- ed Steelman to make “further ef-| forts this afternoon to bring the contending parties together to seek an agreement.” Five Day Strike ‘The country wide dAspute is| over wages and hours. Today's| strikes were called for five days.| Trainmen said the idea is to call attention to the fact that the dis- pute has dragged on for almost a year and a half without a de- cision, | Here is where the men went out: In Louisville—250 switchmen on the Kentucky and Indiana Termin- | al Railroad left their jobs. All of | the road’s 1,200 employees were idl- | ed. A union official said the walke out was 100 effective. In St. Paul—175 employees of the Minnesota Transfer Railway Company failed to report ‘for the 6:30 am. (CST) shift. The road handles mest of the switching of freight cars in and throughout the Minneapolis and St. Paul. The line’s 450 workers are affected by the strike. In Cleveland—the River Terminal Railway, owned by Republic Steel, was shut down by 200 strikers. Em- ploying some 400 workers, the line serves Republic’s big steel plants. The steel company has laid off 1,500 of its 7,000 workers. The trainmen and conductors, asking for a 40-hour week without loss in the present 48-hour pay torf those in yard service have insisted | that the. President take over the nation’s major lines under an act of 1916. The strike is scheduled | to spread tomorrow to two steel! and coal hauling short line rail- | roads. EVIDENCE SENT T0 UN PROVING RUSS GAVE AID WITH U.S. 25TH DIVISION IN' KOREA, Aug. 21—(Delayed)—®— Infantrymen of the 35th Regiment have’ captured a brand new 1950 model Russian machinegun. It was turned over to the United Nations | front line team. It will be flown to Lake Success, New York, as more evidence against Soviet Representative Jakob A. Malik’s claim that the Soviet Union has given no military equipment to North Korean since 1948. MEN CHARGED WITH ILLEGAL SEINING™ IN EAGLE RIVER MOUTH Five Angoon residents were under $1,000 appeal bond each today fol-| lowing a hearing last Friday in| which they were found guilty of seining in the mouth of Eagle River. The men were tried by U.S. Com- missioner Gordon Gray. Cyrus E. Pack was fined $250,/ and Andrew Wanamaker, George! Hobson, John Williams Jr. and Al- | bert Paddy were fined $100 each by | the commissioner. Clarence E. Matson, law enforce- | ment agent for the Fish and Wild- | life Service, arrested the group last week when they had set a seine in- side the 500-yard limit prescribed by law. The stream does not have mark- ers such as many river in the area |hnve during the seining season, and ’ drop. some difficulty was admitted by of- | fielals in determining where the Flames Destroy Marina; Falling Embers Start 1Mippy Roof fires?To Enter Korea Flames and heavy smoke billowed ' Packard over her shoulder at the flames and into the clear afternoon sky yestal'"trom wall of the Marina, stared day as fire swept through the Pack- ard Marina on Willoughby Avenue, leaving it a charred and gutted ruin. Two nearby buildings escaped smoke. Five boats in the shop were par- tially destroyed. One was partly covered by insurance, according to { | serious damage as members of the ! packard. Alaska Coastal Airlines of- | 1,500 British Troops Ready ‘Preparaiiofi;—Under Way fo Hit Soviel Aggres- sion on Two Fronts Enemy Buildup (By the Associated Press) United Nations neadquariers Confinues On Twin Front Despite Deadline’ Near (noon Monday in support of ground troops on all sectors, and reported placed Red losses in Korea at 11,000 inflicting casualties and damage. men in the last three days from Strikes also were made in the north slashing Allied air and ground at- | at Inchon, Seoul’s port, and Kimpo, tacks, but the Communists con-|and its airfield. A train of 37 box- tinued building up strength today | cars was fired at Chinju in central Juneau Fire Department and vol- unteer fire-fighters faced intense heat to confine the flames to the Packard Boat shop. At least seven other minor roof fires resulted from the Packard Marina blaze, which scattered hot embers on roofs a quarter of a mile away. Damage to the Marina and the building which housed it was esti- mated at approximately $60,000 by R. E. Packard, operator of the boat shop. Floyd Fagerson, who owned the building in partnership with J. V. Cole, would make no estimate of the loss. He described it as ‘“tremen- dous.” ance. The Marina had been moved to new quarters in the building July 1, and a new show room had been completed Friday, he said. Began Suddenly The fire, which apparently began suddenly in the rear of the shop, was discovered shortly before 1 p.m., and two 2-3 alarms were sounded in quick succession. First alarm was turned in by Fire Chief A. Minard Mill who was pass- ing and saw flames and smoke burst from the building. Alaska Coastal Airline employees ran a hose to the scene and were playing water on the flames when the first fire truck arrived a short time after the first alarm was sounded. The fire, driven by a light breeze off Gastineau Channel, laid a pall of smoke over Willoughby Avenue,, hampering the fire . fighters. ’l‘wu' | Packard said damage to the shopj was only partly covered by insur- | minutes after the second alarm was sounded, a dull explosion in the, rear of the shop shot flames 50 feet ! high. Firemen faced the fierce heat of the fire to haul two transfer com- pany trucks, one of ‘them an oil tanker, from a garage in the blazing building. # Meanwhile, Alaska Coastal Air- lines mechanics climbed on the west end of the wharf from small boats in an effort to drag the fuselage of a Grumman Goose to safety. Heat drove them back to their boats. The tug Trojan, owned by the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- pany, aided in fighting the flames. The tug was in action at the Juneau Spruce Corporation mill fire just a year ago. Two men, Danny Anderson and Roy Connors, suffered blister§ on{ their faces as they played water on | the roof of the Overby residence, 44 Willoughby Avenue, one of the buildings endangered by the fire. Volunteers Help A chain ol volunteers cleared the Overby residence and Crocks Boat Shop, on the north side of the burn- ing building, of all movable prop- erty, including the bathroom sink in the Overby home. | Two apartments in the burning | buildings' were gutted. Russ Magill,| who occupied one of them, rushed from the airport when he heard of | the fire. He said all his personal property was destroyed. The other | apartment was occupied by Packard. A short time before the Marina fire was brought under control, a 2-6 alarm was sounded and a de- tachment of firemen rushed to the Mugup Cafe on Third Street to ex- tinguish a roof - fire apparently caused by flying embers. A second roof fire at 210 Main Street was discovered at the same time. Other small roof fires were re- ported to have been started on the roofs of Percy’s Cafe on Front Street and the Brunswick Rooms on Ferry Way. Neither blaze did serious damage, according to reports. Residents of houses on the hill overlooking - the smoking Marina climbed to their roofs and wet down with garden hoses. An estimated 1,000 spectators crowded the area near the fire and were moved back when power lines, heated by the blaze, threatened t0 Mermaid Stares at Blaze I Throughout the time the fire was | blazing, & mersiid painted on the as unworkable. [ ficials said their aircraft’s fuselage escaped serious damage. Small fires were extinguished on the roofs of Crock's boat shop and the house at 55 Willoughby Avenue, across thé street from the Marina. Fast work by firemen prevented the blazes from doing serious damage. Spectators could be heard remark- ing on the excellent work of the Juneau Fire Department in confin- | HONG KONG, Aug. 21—®—The Allies are going to get more help soon in the form of two crack British battalions of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders and the Middlesex Regiment, who are | packing in Hong Kong to join TN |forces in Korea. Their strength is estimated at 1,500 men. In Aus- tralia it was announced that Brit- fon both the northern and extreme southern fronts, possibly for twin| full-scale offensives. | With only 10 days to go to carry | out the Red Korean government's order to throw the Allies into the | sea by the end of August, the Com- | munists renewed a buildup on their side of the Naktong river near Waegwan, 12 miles northwest of Korea. Destroy 77 Locomotives Navy carrier pilots flew 198 sorties yesterday and reported destruction of 77 locomotives, shortage of which already has been causing the Reds to use oxen and human power to move boxcars. B-29 bombers Sunday dropped 80 ish, New Zealand and Australian| Taegu and just out of range of the forces in Korea would grouped in- | ::g the Marina fire to the one build- 1t 5 British commonweaith torce, | g The fire appeared to be complet- | ely under control 45 minutes after the first alarm. A sudden burst of |Chou en-Lai declared the “Kor- flame shot skyward 10 minutes later, | ean question can and Must be| but was immediately stopped by |Solved peacefully.” The Communist four streams of water. |New China News Agency said he At 2:30 pm. spectators had | Proposed that Red China be seated cleared from the area, leaving. the |in the UN and that talks then be- | fire-fighters to play water on the gin on the Korean situation, with | smoking remains of the building. | North Koreans represented. This The tired firemen were called out i the same as the Russian pro- at 5:20 p.m. by a 2-4 alarm to extin- | Posal in the UN. | guish a roof fire at 123 Front Street.| India’s Prime Minister Nehru | weighed whether to go to Peiping Chinese Reds Talk In Peiping, Red Chinese Premier U.S. First Cavalry Division's prob- ing guns. At the same time, Gen. Mac- Arthur’s headquarters said, a big buildup of forces was going on on the extreme southern front near Chinju, the Reds' southern base. Fifth Air Force pilots said this was a “terrific attempt” to build up for an offensive—a major drive against Pusan, the United Nations’ last-| | ditch supply port. Air Power Turns Reds But the Communists were thrown off balance, largely through Allied air power, which a headquarters of- | tons of bombs on railyards two miles | from the heart of Pyongyang, Red North Korean capital. Gen. MacArthur warned North Korean Premier Kim Il Sung he would hold him personally respon- sible for any more atrocities such as the massacre of U.S. prisoners of war last week by North Koreans. MicArthur conferred with Gen. J. Lawton Collins and Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, top Army and Navy chiefs, who arrived in *Tokyo Mon- day morning. é . (By the Associated Press) Communist casualties soared to- day, possibly hitting 15,000 for three Firemen said the blaze was appar- ently caused by flying embers fro | m ! to talk to the Chinese Communists the Marina fire earlier in the after- | 80Ut prospects for peace in Korea, noon. jor to go to Lake Success to place q | before the UN Assembly his propo- A hole was burned in the roof an the interior of the building suffered i“ll to let the small-nation members o some water damage. Fire Chief A. Minard Mill today commended the efforts of residents| Ask Truman ror Statement Who had used garden hoses to pro-, In Washington, Republicans “ex- tect their roofs from falling embers. | €fted pressure for a statement by “It's a wise thing to do in case of | Mr. Truman on overall objec- a major fire,” he said. tives in the Korean war as well as the Security Council try to | work out a peace formula. ficer said might have hurt the Reds far more than had been imagined. Heavy Communist casualties were reported by an Allied spokesman in the knocking out of two Communist ships loaded with troops and am- munition off southwest Korea by South Korean naval forces. One of the Red ships was reported sunk, the other damaged. South Korean Marines advanced days of Korean fighting, after futile Red attempts to crack the United Nations defense lines were thrown back on all fronts by lashing Allied air and ground attacks. The Reds massed new butldups for possible offensives — on the northern end of the central front, on the.southern: Red: anchor ‘and on the east, Where South Koreans re- ported giving them a drubbing. from their peninsular beachhead in Tokyo headquarters said Com- l Korean elections. AMBASSADOR FROM KOREA EXPRESSES HOPES FOR PEACE LENOX, Mass.—(#—Korea's am- bassador to the United States says he hopes and expects his severed country again will be one state af- ter ‘the invading armies are smash- ed and destroyed.” | Dr. John M. Chang said yester- day that “it is our full hope and expectation that the United Nations | will proceed to restore ‘peace ahd security’ in the whole nation.” | “It is expected that the Ever- white Mountains, which mark our traditional boundary with Manchu- | ria, will be restored as the north-, ern limit of our nation,” he de-| clared. i Dr. Chang added that he ex-| pects the UN will hold an election | in North Korea to fill 100 National | Assembly seats held open for Lh== northerners in the recent South War (orrespondents | Have Difficulty ‘ In Sending News Out TOKYO, Aug. 21—®—War news| dribbled out of Korea today inj slightly heavier volime than in the | last two days when it was cut to a trickle. The blackout began when the U.S. | Eighth Army removed all press tele- phones and teletypes from advanced headquarters. It said it had informed corre- spondents: “It would be advisable to file all copy at Pusan rather than at Taegu ' in view of reduced communication facilities incident to new require-, ments of military purpose and the possibility that communications might be interrupted between Taegu | and Japan.” i The announcement made no fur-| ther explanation. Correspondents were cut to 60 words each daily for relay to Tokyo | from advanced headquarters. l Associated Press Correspondent Leif Erickson at headquarters said the Army had offered a maxlmum; of 2,000 words teletype transmission | from Taegu “on a pooled basis” and correspondents could use courler! planes. | The 30 correspondents at head- quarters turned down the pool ofler‘ (the cold war against Communism | everywhere. { The Truman Administration will | drive ahead on two fronts to speed |up Western rearmament to meet | threats of Soviet aggressian. Secre-. | tary of State Acheson will appear | |this week before the Senate Ap-| propriations Committee to press for | immediate approval of an emer- igency four billion dollar foreign |arms furid to strengthen U.S. Allies |in Europe, the Middle East and the | Far East. In London American and |other North Atlantic Pact Treaty representatives meet tomorrow. British Offer New Plan Britain’s Labor Party has outlinea |a dew world plan of mutual aid designed to succeed the Marshall Plan. The proposal, in effect an ex- tension of President Truman's Point Wour program, would have Britain, the U.8. and other free Western nations contribute to a mutual aid plan for world economic development—an attack on poverty as a Communist weapon. Inh Rangoon, Burma, the U. 8. Embassy took a “serious” view of the arrest by the Burmese Govern- ment .of Dr. Gordon 8. Seagrave, famed American doctor who spent a lifetime caring for Burma’s sick. He is held on suspicion of aiding the Karen rebels who are fighting for an independent state. Oificials said no charges have been placed as yet. Seagtave is the author of “Burma Surgeon.” ® o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 TIDE TABLE AUGUST 22 Low tide 3:02 am., 1.6 ft. High tide 9:45 am, 112 ft. Low tide 3:01 pm., 62 ft. High tide 9:19 p.m., 14.7 ft. ® 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 76; minimum, 51. At Airport—Maximum, 76; minimum, 45. ’ FORECAST (Junesu and Vicinity) Fair tonight and Tuesday. Lowest temperature tonight about 50 degrees. Highest Tuesday near 73. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todsy City of Juneau — None; since August 1—1.14 inches; since July 1—11.07 inches. At Airport None; since August 1—0.85 inches; since July 1—7.89 inches, @000 eceecsdecccecscscocno0 the south, capturing Tongyong, aolmlmlst casualties along the entire miles southwest 'of Chinju, and ad- | front for Friday and Saturday alone vancing northward with heavy cas-|at 10,092, mostly in dead. This did ualties to the enemy. The Marines | not include all of the 3,500 Reds had landed on the peninsula behind | reported wiped out after they in- enemy lines. News from advance Korea head- quarters was cut to a mere trickle by orders restricting use of facilities for correspondents. The Army ad- vised them to file their copy at Pusan “rather than at Taegu, in view of reduced communication fa- cilities incident to new requirements of military purposes.” Back in One Sector The Allies gave ground only in one sector—a two-mile withdrawal north of Taegu on the central front. Here a Red attack was broken up when artillery, possibly for the first time in any war serving as a spotter for planes, lit up the sky with flares so that fighter-bombers could go into action. The planes were believed to have broken the back of an attack on the crack U.S. 27th Infantry Regiment. On the ground in this sector, the Infantry beat back a counterattack, and this morning a patrol found five Red tanks destroyed, two self- propelled guns, a troop carrier and three trucks knocked out by artill- ery, mortars and rocket fire. The Red 15th, 13th and 3rd Divisions are believed preparing for a d-ive in this sector. On the southern front, a scream- ¢ ing charge by 1,500 Communists drove U.8. Negro Infantrymen off Battle Mountain, a strongpoint less than two miles southwest of Ha- man, 20 miles east of Chinju. It dominates other U.S. positions in | the sector, and has changed hands four times in three days of bloody fighting. See-Saw Fight * ‘The Reds were reported making hit-and-run attacks in the south lon the U.S. 25th Division. The American 35th Regiment held fast in the face of an assault' by an | enemy regiment. The U.S. 24th Re- | giment, forced back about 500 yards, | later retook tke ground. But the big | enemy buildup in the south still | was out of range of U.S. artillery. |~ A third Red buildup was reported in the eastern sector of the battle | area, where South Koreans have pushed north of the Kigye-Pohang line in an offensive which the South Koreans said cost the Reds | heavily. In fighting over the weekend all jalong the 120-mile battle line, uw} Reds lost nearly 2,000 men on the. | south, 6,000 on the central fronts and the balance on the eastern sec- tor, Allied reports said. In the air, Allied planes made 200 individual flights up to midafter- | filtrated defensé lines north of Taegu, the main U.8. advance base. The North Korean radio, its tune sharply changed, announced that Americans and South Koreans were “heavily counterattacking on all sectors.” Such a broadcast could be aimed at paving the way propa- gandawise for further Red with- drawals. The enemy high command’s morn- ing communique did not picture the Allies as counterattacking, but spoke gloomily of American and South Korean forces offering “vio- lent resistance,” with “si sup- port from°aircraft, tanks and artil- lery.” This respect for American power was lacking in previous com- muniques, which had been picturing the “people’s army” continuing pres- sure and victories on all fronts. Christine Halvorsen On Selling Trip Through Alaska A trip to Alaska is a trip home for Christine Halvorsen who owned Halvorsen's, an exclusive shop for women, in Juneau before she sold out about ten years ago. Miss Halvorsen, who arrived in town on the Aleutian early this morning s on a selling trip thréugh Alaska. She has completed visits to Anchorage and Fairbanks and will remain in Juneau until the Alaska sails south Friday. She is at the Baranof Hotel. 60 MPH NETS $25 FINE Erling L. Martinsop was fined $25 this morning by U. S. Com- missioner Gordon Gray after pleading guilty O a charge aof speeding on.the Glacier Highway. Martingon was arrested by Sergt. John Monagle of the Highway Pa- trol and cha; ‘with speeding 61 miles an h STOCK QUOTATICNS NEW YORK, Aug. 21 — Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright 10%, International Harvester 30%, Kennecott 64%, New York Central 14}, Northern Pa- cific 17%, U.S. Steel 37%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,840,000 shares. Averages today were: industrials 220.21, rails 63.09, utilities 37.49,