The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 24, 1950, Page 1

M HE DAILY ALASKA VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,589 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSD:\\ AU( UST 24, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS DID GRUENING INFLUENCE ELECTI( PUSAN PORT THREATENED BY KO-REDS North Koreans Heavily, Armed Division Eastward fo Face U.S. 25th Division| | Communist forces posed a serlousi new threat to Pusan in the south| today. Pusan is the main U. S. supply base for South Korea. On the north central front Allied | troops inched ahead into positions | given up by withdrawing Red t'orcesr north of Taegu. A division of Red Korean troops in three heavily armed columns of men and machines began rolling eastward Thursday night on the Korean south coast against positions | of the U. S. 25th Infantry Division. Intelligence officers said a major offensive may be imminent there. | With American forces on the alert, | U. S. pilots watched the Reds| marching in clusters of eight or 10 men at 50-foot intervals to minimize the danger of air attack. Fighters, bombers and jet planes hammered ! at the three columns immediately after the movement was reported. Two B-26 bombers smashed at con- | centrations which apparently were | marshalled at Chinju, the Reds’ southern anchor 55 miles west of Pusan. There was danger in the north, too, although pressure eased.. For five days the Americans and South Koreans beat back flanking attacks which jabbed and probed in.an ap-| parent search for a soft spot to launch a 50,000-man attack on Tae- gu, main United Nations forward base. (By Associated Press) | | | Tactics Puzzle Allies The sudden shifts of North Kor- | ean forces in the Taegu sector puz- zled Allied officers. Units of the main North Korean forces were re- ported drifting eastward along the defense line of American and South Korean troops. Enemy pressure less- ened along a line now 13 miles north of Taegu. With the immediate threat to the city apparently somewhat less- ened, UN forces tightened their| lines. South Koreans, aided by U. S. fighter-bombers, captured “The Citadel,” highest peak on the UN right flank along the rocky corri- dor leading to Teagu.-It had-been| 8 Red observation: post. ! There was an air of cautious op<‘ timpism at the front. But the Reds| still were massed for a possible lunge. Some U. 8. officers expressed belief the Reds were seeking a flanking route for the Taegu drive. | Others said the Communists were!} (Continued on l;;sTTwo) The Washington, Merry - Go- Round By TOM McNAMARA (Copyright, 1550. Dy 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). WSHINGTON—LOOK for Jm:ubI Malik, Soviet delegate to the Uni- | ted Nations Security Council, to bel recalled to Moscow right after his| term as President of the council expires on August 3L Insiders say that Malik’s mission to the U. N. ended with our smash- | ing victories in the Changyong area last week, which wrecked the| “timetable” the Russians have been using in Korea and at Lake Suc- | cess. | This secret timetable, we have | learned, called for Communist cap- ture of the whole of Korea by | August 15. Later, the deadline ru*l driving all U. N. forces from Kor- ' ea was changed to September 1. Meantime, Malik’s mission atl Lake Success was to press for a| Soviet-dictated peace treaty for | Korea when the final blow was| struck. As part of the bargain,| Russia also would demand recog-| nition of Communist China by the| U. N. and the ousting of Chiang’s | representatives. ; However, now that the tide of battle has turned and we are m‘ Korea to stay, Malik's usefulness at | Lake Success has ended. He wm\ T e | " yContinued on Page Four) 1 | divulge full BRIBERY, ILLEGAL FISHING, RESULT IN SEIZURE, ARRESTS As a result of a crackdown on| Federal | illegal salmon fishing by officers, six Ketchikan men were arrested Tuesday, for taking fish in a closed area. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Director Clarence Rhode, who participated in the arrests, to- day released the further informa- | tion that the seine boat “Rolling Wave” of Ketchikan was yesterday by F.W.S. agents, and is being held in custody pending libel action against it. Former stream guard John Lamb is being held in Federal jail today after arraignment on charges ol accepting bribes for allowing the take of salmon from prohibited areas. Bond was fixed at $5,000. Joe Patterson, well known Ket- chikan businessman, was arrested on charges of bribing a Federal officer. Crew members of the “Rolling Wave” were taken into custody on illegal fishing charges during raids by Government offic- ers Monday and Tuesday. Lamb, according to Rhode, was employed by the Territorial De- partment of Fisheries to aid the Fish and Wildlife Service in patrol operations. He served for the past two seascns as a streamguard in the Boca de Quadra area, south of Ketchikan, on assignment by the F.W.S. Enforcement authority con- ferred by the Government placed him in the category of a Federal { ofiicer, even though compensation | was not by the Fish and Wildiife Service. “There are times when we get pretty discouraged in attempts to safeguard our No. 1 industry,” Rhode stated, “especially when we run into a deal like this, “Obviously, we cannot tolerate complicity by anyone employed to | protect the fishery and we do not expect to do so. Neither, will we telerate bribery offers by fishermen, such as is alleged here. We have a good bunch of boys this year, better equipped for the job, and we are making good progress to- ward obsérvance of regulations. “For the most part, we have had better cooperation from the fisher- men and fewer arrests than last year. Violation of conservation laws is properly becoming more un- popular as the public learns of i%s implications. “We are not at liberty yet to details of this oper- ation,” Rhode stated, “but when the story can be told it will reveal scme rather startling facts on the extent of organized illegal fishing activ.ties, and should convince any sceptical individuals that the Fed- eral Government can offer some effective organized enforcement, op- erations. “Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U. S. Marshal’s { Office, and the Fish and Wildlife Eervice worked together on this job under guidance of the U. 8. At- torney’s Ketchikan office. Assist- ahce was also furnished by the U. 8. Coast Guard. With this co- operation from other enforcement agencies we expect to take the profit out of outlaw operations.” To Prohibi Fur Imporis From Russia AP Special Washington Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 — (B — | Senator Young (R-ND) introduced today a bill to prohibit the import- ation of furs from Russia. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah due to arrive from Skagway at 8 a.m. tomorrow leaving one hour later for Vancduver. Alaska due to arrive southbound |at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Aleutian will sail from Seattle Saturday and is due to arrive here Tuesday. Baranof due southbound Sunday. | Tuesday. Unti! further notice there wil be no CPR ships sailing from Van- couver. FROM OREGON T. F. Sandoz of Astoria, Ore, is in Juneau at the Baranof Hotel. two on felony | charges involving bribery, the rest| seized | EIGHT SITKA JUVENILES SENTENCED With most of their parents among the spectators, eight young Sitkans | charged with petit larceny were | brought before Judge George W.| Folta this morning in District Court ! Seven are minors from 15 to 18 years old and the eighth defendant | is 22. The offenses with which they | were charged date from June, 1949, | to April, 1950. ‘ The cases came from the U. S.| Commissioner’s Court in Sitka, | | @ where the original charges were of | felonies. Commissioner Frank M. | Richardson waived juvenile juris- diction. All eight waived Grand | Jury indictments and pleaded guilty | to petit larceny on an mimmatmm submitted by the U. S. District At-| torney. Stuart M. Brown, 17-year-old son of a Sitka banker, and Carl George | Fetter, 18, were charged on two| counts: of stealing a pistol and am- | munition from the Sitka Cold Stor- | age Company store, and of stealing | money from the Arrowhead Press. | Both were sentenced to $150 fine | on each count also to three-month jail terms which were suspended | on condition that the fines be paid, and subject to continued good be- | havior. In the event that Brown en- | lists in the U. S. Navy and Fetter | in the Army, the suspended jail| sentences are to be vacated. Lynn King and Richard Oran’ Brookman, both 16, pleaded guilty | to one charge each of stealing beer and gin from the Reliable Transfer Company Warehouse, Judge Folta sentenced each to pay a $100 fine and to 30 days in jail, these terms suspended on con- ditions of paying the fines and| good behavior. Their fathers, Charl- es A. King and Albert Brookman, | respectively, were appointed pro- bation officers to ‘8ke that the con- ditions of the sentences are carried | out. The four others were charged with taking a radio and receiving set from the Alaska Native Service warehouse at Mt. Edgecumbe. Raymond Keith Thurman, 22, was fined $150 and given a two-month jail sentence, which was suspended oh conditions of paying the fine and | good behavior. His stepfather, E. T. Meyer, was appointed probation of- ficer to see that conditions of the| sentence are carried out. Julian M. Porter, 15, was fined $150 and given a two-month jaili sentence which was suspended un- | der the same conditions. His father, Lawrence Porter of Mt. Edgecumbe, appointed probration officer. | James Albert Rusch, 18, was fin- | ed $200 and sentenced to three| months in jail, The jail sentence was | suspended on conditions like the| others, with the boy’s father, Al-| bert Rusch, named probation of- ficer. Paul Allen Willett, 19, was !inedl $100 and his 30-day sentence was similarly suspended with his father, Earl Willett of Juneau, as proba- tion officer. In general, Judge Folta’s sentences | followed the lines of those recom- mended by U. S. Attorney P. J. Gil- more, Jr., who presented the case for the Government. M. E. Mon- agle was attorney for Brookman and | King. The others were represented | by Robert Boochever. ———— WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 64 minimum, 55. At Airport—Moximum, 66; minimum, 55. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Cloudy tonight with rain beginning by morning. Lowest temperature near 54 degrees Rain and southeasterly winds 15 to 25 miles per hour Friday with highest * temperature near 59 degrees. | parable grades Deslroyed | w5 Bomb hits pock the oil refinery by Bombs area at Wonsan, North Korea, on the east coast after a heavy raid by B-29 bombers. This photo made two days-pfter the strike, .hom Air Force officials said. U. S. Alr the plant is 80 per cent destroyed, Force photo via (® Wirephoto. COMPROMIE 10 BE WORKED OUT FOR ALLOWANCE House Approves Enlisted Men’s Pay for Depend- ents-Confer with Senate WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 — i® — The House today passed a bill to give monthly allowances of $45 to $85 to enlisted men in the military services to help them care for their families, These allowances are in addition | to their pay. ‘The roll call vote was 359 to 0. The bill provides a $70 a month allowance to all enlisted men, re- | gardless of grade, having two de- pendents—a wife and one chiid, for example. If an enlisted man is in the three lower grades, he will have to allot $40 from his paycheck—in addition to what extra allowance the gov- ernment gives him. * If he’s in the higher grades— sergeants in the Army and com- in the other ser- vices—he would get $70 if he has one or two dependents, and If more than two $85. There is no requirement for paycheck deduction of men in the upper grades. The Senate has passed a some- | what similar bill, and a conference now will be held to work out a corapremise, KETCHIKAN MEDIC NAMED PRESIDENT ALASKA DOCTORS' FAIRBANKS, Aug. 24— (®# —Dr. Dwight Cramer, Ketchikan, was el- ected President cf the Alaskan Med- ical Association as closing sessions of the organization’s annual meet- ing yesterday. Other officers named were Dr. J. O. Rude, Juneau, First Vice Pre- sident; Dr. Howard Romig, Anchor- age, 2nd Vice President, and Dr. William P. Blanton, Juneau, Secre- | tary-Treasurer. Ketchikan was selected as next year’s convention site. Sixty doctors | from Ketchikan to Barrow attend- ed this year's meeting. TODAY’S LANDINGS Landing’s today showed an in- Susitna due to sail from Senm;J PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — .31; since August 1—145 inches; Since July 1—11.38 inches. At Airport — .68; since August 1—1:53 inches; since July 1-—8.57 inches. ’.009000010 » . . o . . . . . ) » . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ° ) | crease over the last 10 days with the o | Isis, skippered by John Martinson, o |landing 35,000 pounds of salmon and - 1 the Valiant, skippered by Floyd Ep- erson, bringing in 2,200 pounds, both . ] . ‘s brothers, the Wanderer, skippered by S. A. Stevens, landed 20000 1p0unds and the Sadie, skippered by Carl Baker, landed 2,500 pounds. for E. C. Johnson. For Engstrom | 'NEW CANADA SHIP STRIKE VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 24—(® | —The tieup of British Columbia coastal passenger and freight ship- ping will become almost 100 per cent complete at noon Friday if members of AFL Seafarers’ i national Umon carry out a threat- Iened against the Union | sveamship Ccm, The union nnnuumed last night that more than 100 members in deck, steward and engine room departments of the seven-ship fleet would walk off the job at the noon deadline unless a contract settle- ment is negotiated. It would leave shippers with only a half dozen barges and even fewer small passenger vessels operated by gulf lines and marine express lines. Craft of the Canadian National Railroad and Canadian Pacific Railroad already are tied up by the Trans-Canada rail strike. ' A strike vote also has been taken among Seafarers’ Union members lon CPR and CNR vessels but re- sults of the balloting have not |been disclosed. (TRIPLETTE & DALZIEL strige *lOW BIDDERS FOR ‘MEMORIAL LIBRARY l { Triplette and Dalziel, with a base , estimate of $113,250, was low bidder | for construction . of the Juneau Memorial Library, according to John Argetsinger, Alaska Public Works district engineer, who will recom- mend that contract award to Wash- ington, D. C. | Should the proposed two alter- nates for basement construction be | of the road, but it is passable, “and | pylies of New York. accepted, the total bid will amoum‘cars and trucks can make good|Dulles are Republicns. | to $123,650. Other base and cumu- lative bids were $136,700 and $153,- struction Company, Seattle; $146,746 and $156246 in the combined bid of R. J. Sommers Company, Juneau, and Hendrick Valle, Seattle. The Sommers-Valle bid was $6,000 high- er at the bid-opening, as a telegram received here at noon yesterday was not delivered until today. LAND SALE AFFKUOVED WASHINGTON, Aug. 24— (P — | Bill to authorize the sale of 236.17 to this-side-of-Heaven Children’s | Home was approved today by the Senate and sent to the President. The land would be sold at not| | less than $1.25 an acre. XTRA BRIDGES LET OUT OF JAIL SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24—® | —Harry Bridges won his freedom | today in a 2 to 1 Circnit Court ruling. The longshore leader was jailed Aug. 5 when his $25,000 bail was revoked on the Government's plea | that he was a menace to the coun- try’s internal security during the Korean warfare. Two judges of the U. 8. Court | of Appeals held the CIO long- shore union head should be liber- ated from the county jail. The | other judge filed a dissenting op- inion. “The ruling restores my faith | MAY SPREAD Inter- ! 800, respectively, by Anderson Con- | acres of land near Homer, Alaska, |- in the courts,” commented one of Bridge’s attorneys, Vincent Hal- linan. BUILDING COST HERE THAN IN ANCHORAGE Low bid for construction of 25 | single-family housing units for lDouglas, a project of the Alaska Housing Authority, was $2.10 per cubic foot higher than Jow bid on a similar job in Anchorage. This was revealed by E. Glenn Wilder, executive director of AHA,| | who told the Juneau Chamber of Commerge at its noon meeting to- | | day, “such a situation doesn’t add fup.” | } Bids on the job were rejected at {an AHA meeting here Monday. He appealed to builders to take into consideration of normal prices, instead of making price-estimates with “high war costs” as a basis. The Alaska Housing Authorityi now has a ‘“program which can produce the housing we so badly need in the Territory,” he said. But the bids received on the Doug- las job revealed costs too high to be borne by the average home-| buyer.‘ in spite of lower construction costs in this area, he said. He stated that the AHA intends to “pursue the project in this area,” and hopes that negotiations or a new call for bids will result in a reasonakle price for the Douglas| Jjob. “Potlatch” Idea It was reported at the meeting that the Chamber of Commerce is studying the possibility of having | a “Potlatch Holiday” during the 1951 tourist season. Main objective of the Potlatch would be to attract| visitors to Juneau, it was pointed| out. The Chamber will also study me‘ need for land on which to put ma- ! | terial dredged out of Gastineau .Channel should the bar- dxedg!ng‘ | project be started. It will study the possibility of obtaining easements for dumping dredged material on |land edging on the channel bar. The Seattle Chamber of Commerce | has offered its services in backing the local Chamber in its efforts to lhave the dredging job done, it was| pointed out. i Norman Banfield, a member oti | the Chamber, reported that the highway between the Alaska High- way and Atlin is completed and in !good shape. He said he travelled |over it two weeks ago and found | that work is still being done on parts | time.” | The Atlin highway is of interest to the Juneau Chamber because it | hopes that a road from tidewater | to Tulsequah will someday connect | Juneau with the Atlin road and the | Alaska Highway. New Members Welcomed | Governor Ernest Gruening intro- | ! duced Col. John R. Noyes, head of | ‘the Alaska Road Commission, as a new member of the Chamber. Dr.| | Ted Oberman, Juneau optometrist, ! was also welcomed as a new member of the organization. | Visitors at today's meeting were Lucille K. Johnson and Leonard| Lowell of Juneau, John White, spec- | | ial representative of Pan American | World Airways, and Harvey Brown and Bob DeArmand of Sitka. !be no such walkout. lcross." was told by Mr. BIDS SHOW HIGHER i the Philippines have 1,200 troops |to Austria, To 10 visiting Austrian, | newspaper men present, he said he | nouncement while they are here. | iment of five delegates and five Pres. Truman Talks Over Many Things Chief Exeqhve Discusses’ RR Strike, Economic Con- trols, Appoints Delegates WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 — (P —| President Truman said today the! call for a nationwide rail strike came very unexpectedly and des-| pite assurances to him there would | He told his news conference he would have to consider the situa- tion before deciding what action the government might take. The! trainmen and conductors unions/ have demanded government seiz- ure. The President said assurance of | no further strikes were given by both union and management rep- resentatives as late as an hour be- fore yesterday’s call for the walk- out to begin next Monday. A reporter, asking whether the tactics used constituted a “double| Truman not to put words in his mouth. The| President sald he is not making| such a statement this morning. | Objects to Control Proposal The President, responding to| questions about the economic con« trol bill now in conference between the Senate and House, declined to state an opinion until the measure reaches him. He said one cannot tell what such measures contain until they are finally passed. Usu- ally they include everything but the kitchen stove before an elimin- ation process begins, he added. He did say however that one provision—placing priority and al- locations controls under the Sec- retary of Commerce—is not satis-| factory to him. He described as absolutely untrue a report that Secretary of Com- merce Sawyer had lobbied to have that provision written into the billl. Mr. Truman sald Sawyer is lnl agreement with him on what the | measure should contain. The Pres- ident has urged flexibility and asked that Congress guard against| hnmxtrmglng‘ him in ndmlnlsterlm: it, | Asked about Secretary of De- fense Johnson’s statement that the | | Korean war may last only arother| six months or so, Mr. Truman said | there is nothing certain about ! prophecies of a military maneuver and he could make no statement on | that. He said he was happy to hear that | ready to serve in Korea. He ex- pressed the hope that as many of America's allies as possible will provide similar ground forces. Opposes Spanish Loan The President again expressed opposition to a $100,000,000 loan zo Spain in the manner set out m‘ ! the pending $34,000,000,000 appro- priation bill. The President opened the news| conierence by announcing the ap- 1 | pointment of Walter J. Donnety, now Ambassador to Venezuela, as Minister and High Commissioner | was happy to make such an an- He also announced the appoint- alternates to the next United Na- tions General Assembly and said 1t was another step in the bi- pnrnsan\ foreign policy. The delegates arc’ Warren R.. Austin, of Vermont; Mrs. Franklin' D.' Roosevelt of New York; Sen- ator Sparkman (D-Ala.); Senator | Lodge (R-Mass.); and John Foster Austin and The alternates: Benjamin V. Ca-‘ Cooper, Kentucky; ‘ Ernest Gross| of New York; Mrs. Edith Sampson, C. Ross of New York and Massa- chusetts. The President said he plcked‘ | Senators Sparkman and Lodge after | consulting with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It was agreed | MPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS NS? SEN. BUTLER ACCUSES GOVERNOR Nebrask;—SoIon Says Gruening Used ANS fo Influence Eskimq Voles WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 — (B — Senator Butler (R-Neb.) accused Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska | yesterday of using a Federal agency to influence votes among the Es- kimos, In a prepared speech, Butler said the governor wrote a letter to an Alaska Native Service teacher in 944 supporting a candidate for delegate to Congress, Again in 1946, Butler said, the governor wrote another native ser- vice teacher regarding his object~ ions to Frank Whaley, a candidate for the Alaska Senate. The first letter, he said, was addressed to Mrs. Grace Kohler, formerly a teacher at Hope, Alaska. | The second he sald, was sent to C. Heurlin, an art teacher at Bar- : row, Alaska, “It is plainly a fact,” Butler sald, “that the governor of Alaska hold- ng an appointive Federal job, not {an elective one, has resorted for electioneering purposes a Federal agency responsible for the spending of millions of dollars in tax funds among Alaska natives each year. This is a use of the resources of the Federal government for pol- itjcal purposes, It can be con- strued in no other way.” Butler, a leading Senate oppon- ent of statehood of Almsks and Ha- wall, added: ™ “The question immediately arises as to whether this would be the manner in which the present offic- ials of Alaska would seek to con- tinue their control under the pro- posed new state government, and whether this is not the real reason why these officials appear so avidly anxious to have the status of state- hood conferred on the Territory.” JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 24—Asked what he would like to say con- cerning Senator Butler's charges, Gov, Ernest Gruening asked to see | the Assoclated Press story, read it, returned it, smiled and sald, comment.” “No (CHINESE REDS TELL US.A. TO QUIT FORMOSA TOKYO, Friday, Aug, 25 — (A — The Chinese Communists today de- | manded- that the United Nations order withdrawal of all American ‘orces frdm Formosa and announced the Red intention to “liberate” that island from the Nationalists. ‘The announcement by the Peip- ‘ng radio was heard by the Asso- ciated Press in Tokyo, It said the demand for American withdrawal | was sent by Chinese Communist Foreign Minister Chou En-Lai to the U. N. Security Council and Secretary General Trygve Lie. The United States has no armed forces on Formosa, last major re- doubt of the Chinese Nationalists, |but the U. S. Seventh Fleet is ! patrolling the Formosa Strait to vrevent an often-threatened Red at am “ane people of China clnnoml‘- crate the action of armed aggres- i sion by the United States govern- ment on the Territory of China,” the radio quoted Chou's message to | {hen of New York; John Sherman|the U. N, It went on to cite the presence of the Seventh Fleet and of some | negro lawyer of Chicago, and John | American Air Force contingents dn Formosa. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 24 — Closing that two members of the House|Qquotations of Alaska Juneau mine | higher figure reportedly suggested would serve on the delegation next|Stock today s 2%, American Can year. | 97%, Anaconda 34', Curtiss-Wright The President had no comment’ 10, International Harvester 31, Ken= on a report that Secretary of me;necott. 65%, New York Central 14%, | Treasury Snyder wants smemthonmm Pacific 17%, U. S. Steel | rates on the public debt maintainéd '38%, Pound 2.80%. at present levels, instead of at a| Sales today were 1,620,000 shares. | Averages today were: industrials by the Federal Reserve Board. 122113; rails 63.12; utilities 39.51,