The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 28, 1950, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,592 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MO NDAY, AUGUST 28, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — | OFFENSIVE FLAMES ON BEACK EAD Truman Cracks Down on Gen. MacArthur STATEMENT ON FORMOSA IS RESENTED Message for Release at VFW Encampment-Text Made Public, However WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 — (B — President Truman has cracked down on Gen. Douglas MacArthu® for proposing to make a statement on Formosa which the White House regarded as an improper venture into the field of foreign policy mak- ing. Presidential Secretary Charles Gi Ross disclosed today that Mr. Tru- man personally directed that Mac-) Arthur withdraw the statement he had sent to the Chicago encamp- ment of Veterans of Foreign Wars.l In that statement, MacArthur had| declared the safety of the United Nations demands that Formosa re-| main in friendly hands. | This was, at the least, off tangent | from the administration’s declared | policy that Formosa's future must be settled at the international level. | So Mr, Truman, in addition to| the crackown on MacArthur, made public a letter to Warren Austin, the American Ambassador to the United Nations, repeating his For- mosan policy “to the end that there | be no misunderstanding concerning | the position of the government of the United States.” Crisis Arises The whole incident seemed cer- tain ¢ lasting scars in a s ion already marked by sharp| differences between some high mil- | itary i diplomatic officials over foreign T t here were indications that i would lead, too, to further deterior: | ation of the Republican-Democratic | cooperation on foreign matters. Senator Knowland (R-Calif.), | who has been critical of Far Eas(- ern policy, got out a statement accusing the administration of “gagging” MacArthur. He called| this “another in the long series of efforts to keep the truth from the| American people.” Just how MacArthur himself felt about it was mot known here, but | Ross said there was no thought of relieving the general as the occupation commander in Japan. MacArthur also commands the Uni- ted Nations forces in Korea. How It Developed The whole thing developed in this manner: Last week, MacArthur sent a long statement to the VFW in which he said “We may have peace” by holding a-Pacific island defense (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go - Round «Copyright, 19A. Dy Bell Syndicate, Ine.) By DREW PEARSON WS’HINGTON—Every year about vacation time there is a big argu- ment in the Pearson family—not about Senator Taft—but about what to do during our vacation. The little woman naturally wants to get away from home. For some strange reason she seems to feel she should get away from three meals a day, moths in the piano and musical’ crickets under the radiator. And with her boy just coming of draft age, she wanted to get off to the Maine woods or the mountains where we could forget about Korea, and woes of the world. On the whole I didn't blame her. But being almost as dis- agreeable in my home as I am to congressmen, I confess that I put up an argument. | “If we go to some beach resort,” said I, “the folks in the hotel lobby will be whispering ‘there’s that fellow that President Truman Four Navy Panther jets, flown by the “Blue Angels” Navy acrobatic flying team, in close formation start banking for a sharp turn over San Francisco. The team put on integrated into Navy fighter squadron 191. its last demonstration before being The Navy said team is being dissoived until after the Korean war. U. S. Navy photo via (® Wirephoto. RAIL LINES OPERATED BY GOVERNMENT ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—(®—The nation’s railroads maintained on- | time operations today under the Army’s direction—but the labor dis- pute which had threatened to halt the trains was still unsettled. The Army took over the rail sys- tem at 4 p.m. (EST) yesterday. This was on orders from President ‘Tru- man, who last Friday ordered the railroad industry seized by the Gov- ernment to avert a nationwide strike. A half hour after Mr. Truman ordered seizure, the two strike- threatening unions called off their walkout, scheduled for today. The presidents of seven major railroads were put in charge of rail operations in various sections of the nation with the rank of Army Colonels. ANCHORAGE CAA MAN HERE John Goetz of the CAA at An- chorage is a guest at the Hotel Ju- jRevoke Bail: ' Jail Terms i Red Leaders ' NEW YORK, Aug. 28—(®—The U. S. Court of Appeals today re- vukea toe bail of the 11 convicted Communist leaders and gave them 180 days to try to stay their jail terms. % The order was in a two-to-one ideclslon by the three-judge court. i U. S. Attorney Irving H. Say- pool said the ruling in effect gave the Red leaders a 30-day stay of their prison terms. During the time, he said, the convicted men may apply to the U. 8. Supreme Court for a further stay of sentence pending deter- mination of their case before it. The Court of Appeals, at the same time, denied a petition by tne Red leaders for a rehearing of their appeal. ‘Ouai:lk?d called a so-and-so’ Or nice old ladies will be wanting autographs, and every amateur politician in the | neau. Now 5,000 NEW DELHI, India, Aug. 28—(® ! —The face of northeast India still was changing today in the wake of the devastating earthquake 13 days ago, termed by scientists the lworld’s fifth most severe -recorded earthquake. I Spreading flood - waters pushed ! further over tea gardens in Assam province, where the quake hit hard- jest. The death toll was in the neighborhood of 5,000, Minor shocks continued province. Millions prayed sstreets and fields An estimated 5,000,000 persons { were reported homeless. Propeity damage was placed at $20,000,000. e 0 0o o 0o 0 o0 WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 55; minimum, 48. At Airport—Maximum, 54; minimum, 47. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Cloudy with rain showers and slowly decreasing south- easterly winds tonight and Tuesday. Lowest temperature tonight about 52. Highest Tuesday near 55. in the| in the PRECI1PITATION (Past 24 honrs ending 7T°30 a m. tndny City of Juneau—.43 inches; since August 1—4.36 inches; since July 1—14.29 inches. At Airport—.26 inches; since August 1—4.63 inches; since July 1—11.67 inches. ® o0 00 0 0 0 0 SEATTLE VISITORS Registered at the Baranof Hotel . from Seattle are Ted Edwardson, . BILLIONS FORGOVT. IS PASSED Appropriation for Opera- fion for Year Okehed by Senate - Voice Vote WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—(®—The Senate passed a $35,554,000,000 single package appropriation bill today to! operate the Government for the year ending next June 30. It goes back | to the House for concurrence in one amendment. The bill provides $14,680,000,000 | in regular military funds. In addi- tion, the Senate will act later this week on a $16,771,000,000 House- approved bill to provide new equip- ment for the Korean war. Included in today's measure was a direction that $62,500,000 be loaned to Spain. President Truman has publicly op- posed this loan. Senate passage was by voice vote. The huge appropriations measure carried $5,222,000,000 in funds for military assistance for anti-Com- munist countries. It also provided $2,525,000,000 in Marshall Plan funds, and a $26,- 900,000 fund to provide technical assistance to the world’s backwara areas. - The Senate Appropriations Com= mittee in a closed door meeting agreed to name a subcommittee to take over the work of the Senate- House ‘“watch-dog” committee on | Foreign Economic Cooperation. The joint “watch-dog” group, headed by Senator McCarran (D- Nev), will go out of existence Sep- tember 1. The $16,000,000,000 supplemental | bill calls for 5333 new planes and other weapons of war. CRITICAL MATERIALS ARE LISTE GSA Orders Government Agencies fo Conserve Supply Levels WASHINGTON, Aug. 28— ® — The General Services Administra- tion set up a list of 11 critical ma- Vterials today and ordered Govern-|€rs will ment agencies to conserve them. The order applies especially to purchases of motor vehicles, type- writers, steel filing cabinets and other equipment using critical ma- terials. Jess Larson, General Services, also ordered ian agencies to reduce their pre- Administrator of photo. In Safe and g 3 A i REVISED 5C BILL SIGNED Approximam Ten Mil- lion Persons Added to 0ld Age Pension Rolls WASHINGTON, Aug. 28— (® — President Truman today signed the revised Social Security Bill adding approximately 10,000,000 persons to the old age pension rolls. The White House indicated there would be a statement later. Mr. Truman has expressed strong objections to one part of the mea- ure as it went through Congress. That is a provision limiting the power of the Secretary of Labor to cut off unemployment insurance funds from states whose systems he holds do not conform to Federal standards. The millions of additional work- come under the old age benefit program and begin paying payroll taxes next January 1. Per- sons now retired will start getting bigger checks a few weeks hence, in October. The new law also more than doubles payroll taxes over the next Civil- | 20 years, to help pay for the larger} benefits. The payroll taxes will in- Iio_be;rl Eugene Raised VANCOUVER, B. C, Aug. 28—(® —The United States motorship Robert Eugene—wrecked Tuesday on Addenbrook Island, 250 miles northwest of here—has been sal- vaged and should reach Seattle under tow today. The 100-foot, 130-ton freighter, almost totally submerged off the Queen Charlotte Sound Island, was raised and patched by nightfall Sunday. Salvage work was carried out by the Pacific salvage tug Salvage Queen of Vancouver. Home port of the Robert Eugene, used on the Seattle-Alaska run, was Juneau, Alaska. The crew of five escaped safely when the ves- sel grounded, NEW BB (OACH, FAMILY, ESTABLISH RESIDENCE, JUNEAU Mr. and Mrs, A Soley and théir three children, Arnold, Barbara and Lynn, arrived in Juneau last Wed- nesday on the Baranof. They have moved into an apartment of Alder- Terrace, Soley is the new athletic director . | sent stocks of such items progres- | Crease from $2,500,000,0000 this year|gng cogch for Juneau High School. sively so that by next June 30 they shall be limited to a three-month, six-month and 12-month supply lev- el, depending on types of items and time required for their replacement. Larson’s order listed the following as “critical materials at this time”: Aluminum, cement, copper, lead, leather, lumber, paper, rubber (syn- thetic, natural or in combination), steel, wool and zine. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Aleutian from Seattle due 11 a.m. tomorrow. Baranof from west. scheduled southbound at 5 a.m. tomorrow. Susitna due to sail from Seattle Tuesday. Alaska due to sail from Seattle Thursday and is due to arrive here Sunday, Sept. 3. Until* further notice there wiil be no sailings of Canadian vessels. MARRIAGE ICENS! SEATTLE, Aug. 28—(®—Marriage license application (3-day wait) has been made by Claude M. Bentz, 42, Emil F. Helem, G. Henning, Ted |Anchorage, and B. Edith Anderson, | bottling plant was burned out dur- | help of 36, Seattle. Johnson, and B. Rosenquist. i to about $7,800,000,000 in 1970. DAUGHTER BORN T0 ADVERTISING MAN OF DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE A seven-pound nine-ounce daugh- ter was born early this morning at St. Ann’s Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Clark. Her nase is Kim- | berly Joyce. Don is advertising man- ager of the Daily Alaska Empire. Mrs. Clark’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, C. E. Douglass of Seattle were here for the event. Mr. Douglass is a professor of engineering at the Uni- versity of Washington. Don Clark’s parents also live in | Seattle where Mr. Donald H. Clark is a free lance author. AT HOTEL JUNEAY He is elso a teacher in soclal science. Coming from Winlock, Wash, U. S. Marine Pfc. Frank Frey of Cincinnati, 0., stands guard over three wounded North Korean prisoners i captured when Marines took their ridge objectives in Naktong River sector of Korean front. ) Wire- THOUSANDS | OF IH MEN OUT, STRIKE Eleven Plants Reporfed Involved in Trouble- Operations Cease CHICAGO, Aug. 28—(M—Nearly 50,000 workers at 19 International Harvester Company plants through- out the country were on strike to- day. The farm equipment division of the United Electrical Workers (Ind) yesterday ordered its 27,000 mem- bers on strike in 11 plants. The strike call brought the big implement manufacturing firm’s operations to a standstill. Eight other Harvester plants have been shut down since Thursday by & strike called by the CIO Unitec Auto Workers, who represent 22,000 workers. Announcing the FE-UE strike after a mass meeting yesterday, Gerald Fielde, director of the 1unfon’s Harvester council, termed |the company’s withdrawal from a tentative contract agreement last week “the most brazen double cross in modern labor labor industry.” W. J. Reilly, Harvester's labor !relnnons manager, said “the com- pany has been and is willing to make very substantial wage In- creases for employes.” The rejected agreement had been reached last Monday. It called for }hlgh school, Soley has 18 years eX-|, seven cent an hour wage boost perience in coaching in all sports.|anq semi-annual opening of the From 1945 to 1947 he was Director { contract for wage discussions dur- of Education at the Washington|j,, the two years it was to have State Reformatory at Monroe Wadh. | peen in force. The new coach is no stranger to rvester S : {the Territory. In 1926 he spgen! li »Hul 5,"” i et 0 e withdrawing from the oifer because iyear at Wasilla, Alaska, Working|he FE-UE local at East Moline, |for the Alaska Road Commission.' 1) nad refused to sign the agree- { His brother, Verne Soley, lived In ment, and new strikes had broken ‘Juneau for seven years and Was out in five other plants atter Mon- manager of Juneau Drug. day. “Ever since we have been mar- ried T have been talking Alaska to my wife,” Soley said. “I know Wwe | are going to enjoy our residence |in Juneau and hope to turn out | some basketball players of which | the town can be proud.” STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 28—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 97%, Anaconda 34, Curtiss-Wright | 10%, International Harvester 30%, MRS. GHIGLIONE BACK | Mrs. A. F. Ghiglione has re- Marjorie Charles, daughter of Sid | turned from a two-week stay in Charles of Ketchikan, is staying at Seattle, and her husband is de- the Hotel Juneau temporarily until lighted to turn back the respons- she can find an apartment. Her ibility of their energetic young apartment above the Coco Cola |family. However, with the capable friends and neighbors, |everythmg went well. !ing the recent fire. Kennecott 65%, New York Central lM‘v.v. Northern Pacific 16%, U. 8. ( Steel 38, Pound $2.80%. | sales today were 1,300,000 shares. Averages today are as fellows: in- ‘dustrlnls 21853, rails 6252, utilities 39.03. BIG DRIVE AGAINST UN FORCES NOW \"Last Gasp” Indicated by Commies in Push-Reds Number 40,000 Men (By Associated Press) The entire 45-mile northern front of the United Nations beachhead in South Korea flamed today with a desperate Communist offensive that inched closer to the important east coast port of Pohang and drove back the defenders north of Taegu. The Red North Koreans committed 40,000 troops to the northern offen- sive all the way from the rubbled central front city of Waegwan on the Naktong River eastward to the Sea of Japan at Pohang. The Am- erican command said it signaled the “last gasp” attempt to drive the UN forces out of all Korea. £ The Reds hit the middle of the Allied line by taking Uihong, 22 miles north of Taegu. The main UN forward base, from South Korean forces. Red infiltrators, repeating the deadly tactics they had used to good advantage all through this two-months-old war, were seen be- hind South Korean lines north of Reds Inch Ahead ‘The Reds drove to within 3% miles of Pohang Port, which the Allies only recently rewon. They inched ahead despite a severe pasting from Allied warships off the east coast and from U, 8. warplanes, U. 8. of- ficers sald they thought the alrstrip, six miles southeast of Pohang, would be held. B-29s took off again on their pun- ishing offensive into North Korea dropping 300 tons of bombs today on Songgjin, 180 miles north of the 38th Parallel. Other warplanes all around the front lashed heavily at enemy troops. The Communists apparently were trying for the big blow which might open the way to Pusan, the main American base. Enemy’s Last Gasp Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, U. 8. Eighth Army commander, told Am- ericans and South Koreans: “It is by 'belief the over-extended enemy is making his last gasp.” All around the 120-mile defense perimeter some 64,000 Communist troops lunged at American and South Korean lines. But a spokes- man at Gen. MacArthur’s head- quarters said despite the apparent desperation of the northern drives, the real big Red push was not yet under way. The key to it, the of- ficer sald, is the Red Second Divi- sion, which is reported refitting somewhere around Kumchon, north« west of Taegu. Big Red Push The Second Division is within a day’s march of either the Taegu or the northeast front. When it gets into action, the spokesman said, the Red push will be underway against Taegu, the UN forward base, and * Pusan, the main Allied supply base on the southeast coast. On the southern front, the Reds hit American lines near Hwman, about 35 miles west of Pusan, U. S, lplnnes battered at a column of 30 vehicles and artillery pieces there and an Amrican artillery barrage blasted it. A Naval operations summary re- ported carrier pilots destroyed 11 new Russian~type Yak fighter planes on the ground at Yonpo on the North Korean east coast. MRS. MEHERIN GUEST AT VANDERBILT HILL | Mrs. J. J. Meherin was a Pan Am- ;encan arrival from Seattle Sunday and will spend the week visiting' Dr. |and Mrs. R. H. Williams at their | country home on Vanderbilt hill. | Mrs. Meherin will be joined later {in the week by her husband who is |in Anchorage on a short | trip. Mr. Meherin is president of the }Bnrano{ Hotel Co.