The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 11, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,603 ARTILLERY IN D (ONTROL SYSTEM _STARTS Mobilization Machinery Is Setup-Harrison Heads New Authority ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— (& — President Truman's new war mobil- ization machinery, geared to a $30,- 000,000,000-a-year arms program, be- gan to roll today under a production boss borrowed from industry. William H .Harrison, President of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., walked into the hot spot as head of a new “national production authority” (NPA) in the Commerce Department. His first job, after today’s swear- ing-in, was to face the steel industry —the presidents of 21 companies, in- vited here to discuss how to divide steel supplies between booming civ- ilian factories and mushrooming war plants. )AY, SEPTEMBER 1 1, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONI ANN_ COLEMAN BREAKS _FIRST GROUND, LIBR. Turns Shovel at Ceremon- ies—Faulkner Makes Principal Talk With a huge dragline and clam- shell in the background, ready to begin the heavy work this after- | :nuon, ground was broken at 11:30 ! la. m. today for the Juneau Mem- | |orial Library, | i Using a brand new red-handled shovel, Miss Ann Coleman, for 17 | years Juneau librarian, turned the | | tirst earth at the Fourth and Main | | Street site. She took an extra | “bite” for good measure, then a !th‘d for the photographer, quip- | |ping that she is more accustomed | |to a “No. 2" but will cherish this | (one as a souvenir. § | l Chairman B. Frapk Heintzleman jof the Memorial Library Board| |presided at the short but signifi- | {cant ceremony witnessed by more | |than 150 persons gathered there, | |and by windows full of spectators | in the Federal Building, the Fire | UEL Here Are Warrans Issucd fo Pay for Stafehood Loblying Use by Territorial Aunditor S Date Presentsd eV Date Warrant Issued -, APR 3 Postal Addres ON KOREAN FRO SCHOEPPEL HEARINGS RESUMED 'Charges of Communist Ac- i fivities in Inferior De- partment Taken Up WASHINGTON, Sept. 11—(P—Ad- ditional hearings were ordered for this afternoon on charges of Com- munist activities in the Interior De- partment, made by Senator Schoep- pel (-Kas). Chairman O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) said the Senate Interior Affairs com- mittee intends to “proceed with ev- ery relevant fact.” Witnesses summoned for this af- ternoon were Maston G. White, soli- citor of the Interior Department, and Guy W. Numbers, Assistant Director of the Department’s personnel re- cords. Their testimony was expected to concern the nature of loyalty oaths taken by Interior officials. Schoep- { pel asserted in a Senat speech last PRICE TEN CENTS NT RED FORCES POUNDEDBY AIR FORCES Commies Reported Backed Against Wall-Big Guns Are Knocked Out (By Associated Press) U. S. big guns knocked out a “great many” Communist artillery pieces today in the second day of a sus- tained artillery duel just northwest of Taegu, anchor of the United Na- tions’ line in South Korea. Despite Red losses, a new Communist Kor- ean offensive agdinst the north- west Allled hub again seemed im- minent. U. 8. artillery and Allied planes pounded ceaselessly at Red troops— believed to number about 40,000— massed in the area of the bloody “bowling alley” corridor north of raegu. The Allies hold a continuous ind reinforced line seven miles north hi 5 i - | | W This was the first move in a mob Hall and nearby residences aind| Ly ith the Reds backed up »f Taegu, e 9 ilization against Communist aggres- sion which Mr. Truman said Satur- | day may last many years and will | require sacrifices of every American. Orders to Follow I A series of orders is expected to | follow. But actual ‘“allocations”— that is, assignments of steel and| other materials to particular users— | may not begin for weeks. And civil- : jan goods—autos, television sets, freezers and others—may not bej affected for months. Immediately ahead, perhaps with- in this week, are: 1, Issuance of a scarcity list by Mr. Truman, haming materials inj short supply. Steel, copper, rubber, and aluminum will be on it. 2. An inventory control, or anti- hoarding, order by NPA. This will| make it illegal for business firms or others to amass supplies of the| scarce goods beyond a normal work- | ing level. 3. A priority regulation, to com- pel mines and factories to put de- fense orders ahead of all others. Mobilization Program In his Saturday night radio and television speech, and in executive orders, the President announced a mobilization program involving eight | Federal agencies. He said defense | spending will be doubled—to $30,000,- 000,000 & year—by next June. He de- i manded much higher taxes. He created an “economic stabiliza- tion agency” (ESA) to hold down: inflation. Emerging at the top of the mobil- ization program was W. Stuart Sym- ington, Chairman of the National Security Resources Board. Syming- ton. will coordinate the efforts of all the agencies and settle policy dis- | putes. New Authority Mr. Truman gave to the Com-| merce Department the power of al- | locating most materials, and under | this power Secretary Savyer last night announced the creation of the | National Production Authority and ! the appointment of Harrison to head | it. There was no official word onI who will head the Economic Stabil- | (Continued on Page TWwo) The Washington Merry - Go - Round (Copyright. 1950, by Bell Byndicate, Inc.) | eyt By DREW PEARSON | WSHINGTON — Behind the| President’s apology to.the Marine | Corps was some Dutch-uncle talk- ing by Chairman Bill Boyle of the: Democratic National =~ Committee, Attorney General McGrath @ and} Leslie Biffle, Secretary of the Sen-| ate, At first, Truman refused to re- cant. He was mad as blazes about | newspaper criticism of his remarks ! —which he felt was inspired byi Republicans—and about the deluge | of 'irate telegrams flooding - the ‘White House. It was only after Boyle, McGrath, and Biffle argued for some time that he finally dictated the letter of apology to Gen. Clifton B. Cates, Marine Corps commandant. Boyle bluntly told Truman that his criticism of the Marines, how- ever well-intentioned, might dg(eat a number of Democcrats in Nov- ember. The President was also advised that the Marine Corps | apartments. | Calling the occasion “a hsppy‘ time,” Heintzleman characterized | the Library Board as a rallying point through which “all the pub-| lic- spirited citizens worked and subscribed since the drive started in 1946. He thanked service, fraternal,| religious union and other commu- nity groups which made the library possible. Heintzleman added spec- ial appreciation for the cooperatmn' of the mayor and City Council, the | architects, present librarian Mrs. Edna Lomen and individuals who supported the library. Faulkner's Talk Introduced as a representative citizen who has shown great in- terest through the years in public welfare and education, H. L. Faulk- ner gave the main taik. He, too, had thanks for Heintzlemar, “a great and everlasting tribute for his unceasing, tireless work”; to the committee and to subscribers. “A public library is a great nec- essity,” he said. “We can lose the greatness of America by force or: irom within . Through this $124,- 000 structure and what it stands for. we must keep pace with ac- vances in science, in the fieids of character, knowledge and learning.” | Faulkner pointed out that the new library is dedicated to the memory “of those splendid young men who laid down their lives in our defense.” He said the names will be inscribed on parchment %o be placed in the cornerstone, and that further tribute to Juneau's war dead will be made when the building is completed. B. D. Stewart, Library Board member, presided for the actual ground-breaking, saying that the turning of the earth symbolized- a | proud achievement. The Lhirdi committee member, Dr. James C. Ryan, is out of the city. How It Was Done Through the community effort, the $10,000 site was purchased and | $72,000 raised in cash and pledges. | By arrangement with the mayor and City Councli, the library build- ing was approved as an Alaska! Public Works project and received federal funds. | Representing the APW at this| morning’s ceremony were John Ar- I getsinger district engineer; Linn A.| Forrest, architect, and A. H.. Bo- berg, construction engineer, who is | in charge of the library construc-} tion, | Also present was Woodrow Trip- | lette of Triplette and Dalziel, the | Juneau company which was award- | ed the contract. Front-line spectators included | City and Territorial dignitaries, | (Continued on Page Eight) TODAY’S LANDINGS | Landings today for E. C. Johnson were from the Sisu, Clyde Hill, 2,000 } pounds of salmon and Bertie II, Roy | DeRoux, 3,000 pounds; for Engstrom Brothers, the Totem, Ralph Mortin- son, 2,000 pounds with Jim Hickey | trucking 3,000 pounds in from Auk | Bay. Eight small trollers also land- ed approximately 6,000 pounds. Sat- urdaw landings after press time were from the Cameo, Elmer Lind- | strom, 2,000 pounds, the Elizabeth, | Gil Bixby, 1,200 pounds and the Don-Del, Fred Newman, 1,500 pounds all for Alaska Coast Fisheries. Also landed ‘Saturday were 21,000 pounds | from Albert Wallis’ Alrita for Eng- (Continued op Page Four) strom Brothers, L Thursday, Prowonal A Doffi: Expeoes & Suwplie pravel Expeosts Frertialog & Siereby ceriify (it the msterial furnibbed service Téndared B ed i’ Aniowp sbove or of Alaska, that o part, of G same hes been pald: pesaondl 6T — Qi Wpenses & Sugpics st matertal immistod YIS T pge bove,or suached. 4 8 508 01 pasa itures incurreq he material farnigh againes’the Tereit, irlabed, 3 shown aboye ory o o atte 7 of Alanka, Wiat 1o pagt of Bignea "’ {UE iy » service pe. has begn. paid: [SAARA These are the warrants signed by Alaska Statehood Committee mcmbers which conveyed to Delegate E. L. Bartlett S15, purposes of the Alaska Statehood Act,” “Of the amount totallin: attached, s o trié and correct chagge tne ‘he, undetsianed; siated smiunt a0t 8 1: the dindersipied 40, Tereby's "7 hated m;« to.be engry Z’ s tod Numm_};«?""“* i wame Fiiidlociile Sl ey tersigned, do. b undersigned, do- DTS L arapant and 18,10 D€ " TOTAL Bauipnint do-here P be charged 1424 4 000 “to effectuate the <15,000 which has come to me from Alaska, there has been paid to Randolph Feltus $8,000,” Mr. Bartlett said in his statement before the Senalc Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. OPEN BIDS TONIGHT Bids on 450 feet of sewer trench| Casey Triper and son of in the Highlands area will be|dova are registered at the opened tonight by the City Council | Juneau. before it sits as.an 1:‘.:1ualizalion1 Board at 8 o'clock in the Council FROM HOOD BAY Chambers of the City Hall. The| Jack and David Ransom, | hoard will meet evenings through!from Hood Bay, are stayir Juneau Hotel CORDOVA VISITORS C r= COASTGUARDSMAN HERE Ching F. Wir el | Guard is registered at the I Hotel. WRITERS ) rs| The Juneau Creative Writers will | 1e | meet, tonight at 7:30 o'clock at of the U. S. Coast Hotel. ET TONIGHT Mrs. is regi the PORTLAND BROKER HERE 1 Stanley Zuern, a broker with Van 9%, International Harvester 30%, ranof | Waters and Rogers, Inc., Portland, Kennecott 63%, New York Central | | Ore., is in Juneau at the Gastineau | 14%, Northern Pacific 22%, U. S.| FROM SITKA | week that Chapman had not signed | the required loyalty oaths and that he was linked to subversive organi- | zations. Chapman denied it. O'Mahoney told reporters that Frank T. Bow, one of Schoeppel's assistants, will be asked to testify at the hearings Wednesday. He said Bow had written the com- mittee asking for permission to take the stand. The committee, O'Mahoney added, has “absolutely declined” a sugges- tion which he said was made in a letter by Senator Schoeppel that further hearings be in closed ses- sion. “Everything. is going to be on the table and above board for every- body to see,” he said. | Other witnesses to be heard the |same day as Bow will be Reclam- ation Commissioner Michael W. Straus and Governor Gruening of Alaska, the latter on the Alaska Statehood issue. "l DON'T KNOW" 'SAYS MRS. HERMANN ABOUT FELTUS “I don’t know” was the substance of Mrs. Mildred Hermann’s replies to inquiries about the employment of the Alaska Statehood Commit- tee of lobbyist Randolph Feltus, now under fire in the U. S. Senate. Mrs. Hermann is recording secre- tary of the Executive Committee of ithe Alaska Statehood Committee K:and normally keeps the minutes of jits meetings. | When asked whether the Com- | mittee had been consulted in the hiring of Feltus as lobbyist, Mrs. | Hermann replied that Feltus had | been selected from a large number of applicants, .interviewed by Dele- | gate Bob Bartlett and Governor | Gruening and that, upon their re- | commendation, the Executive Com- | mittee approved his employment. | Mrs, Hermann added, however, that |she had not been present at this meeting, since it was, she believed, ! held in Anchorage. | Asked whether Feltus had submit- Ited any reports of progress to the (Continued on Page Eight) STEAMER MOVEMENTS Aleutian from Seattle sceduled to arrive late Tuesday night or early ‘.Wudnesday. | Princess Louise scheduled to sail ;i‘rom Vancouver Wednesday. | Freighter Ring Splice scheduled to | sail from Seattle Sept. 15. Alaska scheduled to sail | Seattle Saturday. | Baranof from west scheduled Isouthbound 8 a.m. Wednesday. STOCK QUOTATIONS 1 NEW YORK, Sept. 11 — Closing ! quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 2%, American Can; 194'%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright | from Steel 34%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,860,000 shares. | | Averages today are as follows: in- | Carl E. Johnson of Sitka dustrials 218.18, rails 64.44, utilities red at the Baranof Hotel. 38.86. 1gainst a hill. An Americin officer sald “we have got them where we want them now.” The 'eastern gateway to Taegu “as been sealed by a South Korean drive northeast of ¥Yongchon, high- way hub 20 miles east of the Taegu battlefront. Gen. MacArthur’s head- quarters said defénse lines around Yongchon, twice held by the Reds and now by UN forces, now are se- ure. On & visit to this front, South Korean President Syngman Rhee ‘old reporters the Allies are “almost ready to strike in an all out offen- sive.” On the t Allied planes gashed the Red bridgeheads southwest of Taegu. Pilots said Red troops were withdrawing " in front of the U. 8. Second Division holding the main line in the south-central sector, but there was no indica- tion of & mass withdrawal. Allied planes and artillery blasted a Communist regiment of 8,000 men on the Naktong River bulge west of Changyong, 23 miles southwest of Taegu, where the U. 8. Second Division repelled a sharp attack. This, 8dded to previous Red losses on this front, left the front strewn: with up to 4,000 casualties. Quiet Southern Front On the southern front, U. . 25th Division lines remained quiet, al- though another buildup was reported west of Masan, in an area about 35 miles west of Pusan, main Al- lied port. Allied bombers flew a record 449 sorties Monday in a big effort to cut off as many retreating enemy groups as possible. Of these, 164 flights were in close support of front- line troops against Reds reported fleeing before a drive of South Kor- ean and U, 8. First Cavalry troops on the northern front. Fighters blasted front lines held by Com- munists all around the beachhead box. B-29s struck the Sunchon chemical plant near Pyongyang, Red North Korean capital, and other B-29s blasted bridges and tunnels. SRS e ANCHORAGE VISITOR Ed W. Reinertsen of Anchorage is staying at the Baranof Hotel. FROM SEATTLE J. W. Oakley of Seattle is regis- tered at the Baranof Hotel, ® 0o 0 s 0 0 0 o 0 WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 58; minimum, 49. At Airport—Maximum, 56; minimum, 47. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with an oc- casional light scattered rain showers tonight and Tuesday. Lowest temperature tonight about 56. Highest Tuesday near 58. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—.06 inches since Sept. 1—4.10 inches; since July 1—15.16 inches. At Airport—.09 inches; since Sept. 1—241 inches; ® since July 1—14.41 inches. ® e 0 0 0 9 0 0 00 |