The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 29, 1950, Page 1

A » 'BLAZING BATTLES RAGE, KOREAN FR P THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE VOL. LXXYV.,, NO. 11,593 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Senator Taft Causes W opm{no N;longshoremen’s Unionof HALTED WHEN Bridaes Is Expelled af (10 Execufive Board Meefing WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 — (# — PI’O'CS' ks 1500 Men GETS NOIE ‘lnnrkcd for purge a year ago on| They were the West Coast Long- | One hundred CIO-United Steel- | and the Marine Cooks and Stew- today because U. 8. Sen. Robert A.| A I F first by a 41 to 2 vote. The dis- | merican Policy on For- hours after Taft's automobile left | y Bridges' union, and Bryson. | Policemen stood by at the plant yonly opposition vote. | Senator said some of them smiled |President Truman today sent Gen. CIO convention in Chicago Nov. 20, | | | The CIO executive board today ex- Temporaflly Idled charges of hewing to the Commu- | shoremen’s and Warehousemenf’s | workers walked off their jobs at| BY TRUMAN lm‘dm headed by Hugh Bryson. | Taft (R-Ohio) visited the plant. | senting votes came from J. W. the main gate, amid some boos and | [110S@ Exp|ained_6en_ catcalls. All but about 10 of the | Next Bryson's union was ousted, | gate where the unionists gathered, Bridges and Bryson could appeal at him when he waved to them on|Douglas MacArthur a statement of Put it is highly unlikely that the entering the plant for an hour-long | American policy on Formosa, and ' convention would upset the board's | One Hundred CIO Workers| Ma(ARTHUR ‘ pelled the last two of 11 unions it nist party line, | ‘YOUNGSTOWN, O., Aug. 20—®— | Union, headed by Harry Bridges, | Youngstown Sheet and Tube i { Bridges’ union was kicked out They went back to work about two Robertson, Vice President of workers returned to their jobs. | eral Is Commended {41 to 1, with Bryson casting the | | U but there was no disturbance. The% WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 — __ the executive board action to the tour. |also a commendation of the gen- MOVe. RADAR NOT 'WORKING AT COLLISION Imporfant Testimony Is Brought Out at Hearing of Sea Disaster SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20—®— A witness told a Coast Guard board of inquiry today the freighter Mary Luchenbach’s radar was not working when it collided last Friday with’ the Navy hospital ship Benev- olence off the Golden Gate. Martion E. Dayton, mate of the freighter, was the first witness call- ed as the hearing opened, Dayton testified the freighter’s direction finder was working, but the ship’s radar was not. He said a repairman had worked on the radar while the freighter was in dock, but added it was his ‘“understanding” that the radar still needed some ad- Justments. The walkout virtually halted fin-| ishing operations of the company’s | huge Campbell works. Although about 100 union mem- | bers walked off their jobs, about | 1,500 employees were idled. i Senator Taft said some pickets smiled at him when he waved and “many seemed glad to meet a notor- ious person.” During an hour-long tour of the open hearth and mach- | ine shop divisions of the plant, he | chatted and shook hands with some workers. He made no speech. The protesting unionists are mem- bers of the CIO United Steel Work- ers Union. “Senator Taft is not a friend of organized labor and we are organiz- ed labor,” one union member said. | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 29—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 97, Anaconda 34, Curtiss-Wright 10%, | International Harvester 30%, Ken- | necott 65%, New York Central 14%, | Northern Pacific 16%; U. S. Steel 38, | Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,490,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 21829, rails 63.32, utilities 39.87. The Washington Merry - Go-Round| (Copyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON WSBINOTON—Cnbinet Changes —Some people around the White House have been angling to get Secretary of State Acheson and Secretary of Defense Johnson out of the cabinet, but the angling hasn’t come from Mr. Big himself. The other day a White House as- sistant approached Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire with the idea that he become Secretary of State. The proposition was hedged with such reseryations as “I'm only talking for myself, you understand, but—.” .. . . Bridges said he wasn’t interested . ', .. undoubtedly the assistant told the truth when he said he was only talking for him- self, because Truman invariably freezes his cabinet members when they are under attack . . . What bothers him most is the fact that these two particular cabinet mem- bers are at each others throats. You can’t talk ten minutes with Louey Johnsop’s staff—or some- times even with Johnson himself— without hearing a crack against the Secretary of State. Ambition Burns Eternal—A friend was talking to Secretary of Defense Johnson. He said: ‘ ‘Mr. Secretary, a lot of people are talking about you for President.” “Oh, I'm not interested in that,” said Louey condescendingly. A minute later, however, asked: “Were they important people?” Balloons To Russia Soviet. spokesmen are livid over the prop- (Continued on Page Four) he eral’s direction of the Korean cam- paign. Mr. Truman's move, following up his weekend order for MacArthur to withdraw a statement on For- mosa, appeared to have a two-fold purpose although there was no offi- cial comment. 1. To clarify MacArthur’'s own | understanding of the whole situa-j,¢ Seattle, which had merged two tion and give him an implied re- minder not to get out of step again. 2. To ease the sting of the in- |cident to the general and also help maintain MacArthur's prestige in the Far East. Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross gave out Mr. Truman’s mess- age without comment and refused | to answer questions as to why Mr. | Truman sent it. Text of Letter The text of Mr. Truman’s letter: “I am sending you for your in- formation the text of a letter .which I sent to Ambassador Austin dated August 27. T am sure that when you examine this letter, and the letter which Ambassador Austin addressed to Trygve Lie on August} 25 (a copy of which I am told was {pers, sent your headquarter$ that night), you will understand why my action of the 26th in directing the withs drawal of your message to the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars was nec- essary. “General Collins and Admiral Sherman have given me a compre- hensive report of their conversa- tions with you and pf their visit to the United Nations forces now fighting under your command in Korea. Their reports were most satisfactory and highly gratifying to me.” The letters Mr. Truman enclosed were those officially stating Amer- (Continued on Page Two) Republicans Make Complainf on Adm. (By Associated Press) The Republican National Commit- tee charges that Adminstration pol- icy in the Far East has boomeranged disastrously. In a 20,000-word white paper supplied to Republican candidates, the committee says: 4 “Korea and Formosa must be add- ed to China as instances where the boomerang of Far Eastern policy has met itself coming back.” In addition, the Republican com- mittee charges that Republicans had not been consulted about decisions in the Far East. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Aleutian from Seattle in port and scheduled to sail for westward at 6 o'clock this evening. Susitna due to sail from Seattle today. Alaska due to sail from Seattle ‘Thursday and is due to arrive here Sunday, Sept. 3. & Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle at 11 a.n. Monday. Until further notice there will be no sailings of Canadian vessels. | The convention last year author- tized the removal of all leaders and {unions found to be following Com- munist policy. Longshoremen Ouster Included in the ouster of the 75,000 longshoremen was the re- {moval of the Fishermen and Allied 1 Workers, headed by Joseph- Jurich, {months ago with the Bridges union. A three-man committee investi- gated Bridges’' activities of the past |several years and decided that he ihad adhered to Communist party I policies at the expense of CIO pro- lgrams. The committee, recom- |mending ouster, told the executive board that the Communists had Leen “highly successful” in control- ling the ILWU. Bridges, who is free on bail pend- ing an appeal on a perjury convic- tion, did not know how to defend himself at the executive board meeting. Robertson represented him. Bridges was convicted of lying {about Communist party affiliations lin applying for naturalization pa- 8 Unions Expelled In the past, Bridges has resisted Temoval from the CIO, and asserted he was merely following good trade union tactics, The CIO already has expeiled eight unions charged wtih follpwing the Communist line at the expense of CIO policy. Another, the United Furniture Workers, cleared itself in convention by getting rid of offic- ers charged with Communist sym- pathies, The house cleaning began 10 months ago at the CIO convention in Cleveland. PENNSYLVANIANS HERE Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Millér of State College, Pa., are registered at the Baranof Hotel. DON DAVIS HERE Don Davis of the P. E. Harris Co. of Seattle is registered at the Baranof Hotel. WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 53; minimum, 50. At Airport—Maximum, 53; minimum, 48. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Variable cloudiness with occasional showers tonight and Wednesday. Little change in temperature with lowest tonight 50 and highest Wednesday near 58 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—.35 inches; since August 1—4.71 inches; since July 1-14.64 inches. At Airport—22 inches; . . . . . . . . 3 L] . . . . . . ° . . . . |kick us out next Tuesday. |will save us a lot of headaches,| Dayton testified as the Navy was holding another hearing on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay. This hearing ws closed to the pub- | lic. Dayton estimated the collision with the hospital ship occurred at 5:02 p.m., with fog limiting visibil- | ity at the time to only 1,000 feet. “The Mary Luckenbach required no assistance,” Dayton testified. “The first indication I had that the Benevolence was in serious difficulty was when we heard yelling over our starboard bow.” In a legal action, the Government has asked $14,000,000 damages from the Luckenbach Steamship Com- pany. WORKERS 10 DECIDE NEXT, OUSTER MOVE Work SIoppa_ge Suggested by Union Official- Bridges Talks SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29—(P— Morris ‘Watson, longshoremen’s press representative, said today the union’s locals would have to decide whether to hold stop work meetings to discuss their ouster from the National CIO. There was no indication of such a stoppage at noon, Watson said. ‘Watson quoted from action taken at the recent caucus of the Inter- national Longshoremen’s and Ware- housemen’s Union at North Bend, Ore. He said the “caucus reaffirmed its position denouncing the ‘kangaroo trial’ given the ILWU by the Na- tional CIO and recommended that in event of expulsion by the CIO the locals stop work to consider the matter.” “We are far better off out than we ever were in,” longshore offic- ers commented on the National! CIO action. The union’s President, Harry Bridges, was not available for per- sonal comment. However, head-| quarters of the ILWU issued a statement, | In an interview last Friday, after | he was released from jail on $25- | 000 bail, Bridges said: “The National CIO is all set to| That | | being free from that lousy outfit.”| | TODAY’S LANDINGS One of the season’s largest land- | ings was made today with E. O.| Swanson’s Elfin II bringing in 45,-| 000 pounds of salmon for the Alas- | since August 1—4.85 inches; since July 1—11.89 inches. |strom Brothers, The red cross painted on side of the USN Benevolence shows through the water as waves sweep over the stricken hospital ship. dense fog off San Francisco’s Golden Gate. survivors. (P Wirephoto. The vessel sunk following a collision with the freighter Mary Luckenbach in a A Coast Guard boat patrols the area searching for possible | | i The crumpled bow of the freighter Mary Luckenbach sihows what happened when it plowed into the side of the hospital ship Benevolence in a heavy fog aff the Golden Gate. outward bound. The Benevolence, with more than 500 aboard sunk. The Navy said 18 are known to have lost their lives. ) Wirephoto. Alaska Mayors Are Meefing, Anchorage; Public Works Is Issue 28—(M—The Conference ANCHORAGE, Aug. first Alaska Mayor's opened here yesterday. The first topic of discussion was the Alaska Public Works program. A forecast was made that more authority would be granted Alaska Public Works field officials to en- able them to give Alaskans an-. swers when they need them. Philippine Force Is Going fo Korea (By Associated Press) A 10-man vanguard for the 12- hundred man Philippine Army force destined for Korean service has left Manila for Tokyo. Headed by Colonel Jaime Velas- quez, the delegation will confer with ‘ Mrs, Margaret Berlin, who has ka Coast Fisheries , Peter Lunde's | General MacArthur on plans for di- | been south for several weeks re- e |Attu landed 1,800 pounds for Eng- | recting the Filipinos against the turned to Juneau aboard the Aleu- l North Korean Communists. Damaged Frelghter SALMONPACK, COOK INLET, IS REPORTED UP ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 29— (M—Fish and Wildlife officials said that the salmon pack at Cook In- let this year exceeded the 10-year average by 529 percent. An influx of gear during the Red salmon season and improved weath- | er conditions were given as rea- | sons for the heavy increase in the total catch during the season which ended Aug. 12. Sixteen Inlet canneries reported canning 392,227 cases of one pound tall cans. Four Kodiak Island can- | neries packed 49,460 cases of tall| cans of Cook Inlet salmon. MRS. BERLIN RETURNS | tian. % The freighter, fully loaded, was Airliner Is Charfered for Flight of Two INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 20—P—A 40-passenger Convair airliner was chartered by a New York stock broker last night to take himself and his wife, a model, to a fashion show at Lake Placid, N. Y. today. The plane carried a pilot, co- | pilot, and stewardess in addition to | the New York couple and their | French poodle. ' It returned to| Weir Cook airport 15 minutes after | the takeoff to pick up a cosmetics bag the wife had left behind. Then it took off again for Lake Placid Airport attendants estimated the cost of the charter at $1,800. EAKLY MOKNNG BLAZE The City Fire Department was called out at 2:15 a.m. to extinguish | a mattress fire in a small cabin at the rear of the City Cafe. The bed was burned and the cabin badly smoked up, Chief Minard Mill re- ported. i W. R. MCRAE HERE l’ W. R. McRae of Vancouver, B.C,, | is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. PRESSURE ISRISING EACHHOUR UN Forces, However, Beal Back Heavy Red Atfacks -Giant Offengjve Plans (By Associated Press) Blazing battles erupted today at both ends of the curling 120-mile battle perimeter in South Korea. United Nations forces beat back heavy Red attacks on. both ends |of the line, but the Communists were reported building for a giant offensive—their supreme bid to drive the UN forces into the sea. On the East Coast anchor of the flaming 45-mile northern front, Red forces knifed three miles south- west of United Nations lines and set up a. threatening roadblock on the vital highway connecting the Port of Pohang with Yongchon. But the Pohang sector still was con- trolled by American and South Kor- ean troops, who have pushed back elements of the 20,000 attacking Reds in the Kigye sector, nine miles to the northwest of the port, and have retaken Kigye. While_ the: Gommuniae e ts ted hea'?’mmfi" long tfiegiazw.K ') ern front, the southern front flamed with furious action. American Negro infantrymen and South Korean troops turned back a North Korean bayonet charge in hand-to-hand combat. Red bayonets wiped out one American machine gun nest. The battalion of Reds assaulted bald Sobuk Hill west of Masan. After two unsuccessful attacks, the Reds surprised the American troops and a wild battle ensued—so close that U. 8. supporting weapons could not be used for fear of hitting Al- lied troops. A portion of the defend- ing force was cut off for four hours, but reinforcements got through and at noon Tuesday the mountain top remained in Allied hands. Blaze With New Fury While the Korea war blazed with new fury, Washington worried over the conflict between the UN com- mander, Gen. MacArthur, and Presi- dent Truman over Formosa policy. The President today sent Mac- Arthur a statement of U. S. policy along with a commendation on the General's direction of the Koréan campaign. He appeared to have two purposes in this: To clarify Mac- Arthur’s picture of Far East policy, ' and to ease the sting of the with- drawn sthtement incident. 3 In Korea, meanwhile, Communis$ Pressure appeared to be rising hour- ly. (Continued ¢cn Page Two) WAR GAMES IN INTERIOR ARE FOUGHT FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 20—® —Army and Air Force troops at Ladd and Eielson Air Force Bases were engaged today in testing if they could stand off a theoretical enemy who has held portions of Alaska since Aug. 15. The war games stretch to the edge of the Arctic Circle. The problem, as devised by military strat- egists, involves the capture of Nome, Galena and McGrath by airbourne forces of- the “enemy.” Now the enemy is grouping his | forces for an all-out push on the two strategic air fields. The role of the aggressor forces is being fill- ed by Army troops dressed in green uniforms and wearing special head- gear. Parachute dummies dropped from the air represent enemy para- troopers. Umpires will decide the success or failure of both enemy and defending forces as the large-scale maneuvers continue. G ONTS ‘alkout at Steel Plant e o