The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,604 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1950 MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U.S.CAVALRY CAPTURES STRATEGIG HILL e e et e o e e A et e A S e S I ——re . e . e e et e et e, Ve et S e et . S b . Investigation of Int. PUBLICITY CONTINUES ON CHARGES, Gruening, Straus Will Be| Witnesses-Atwood Also fo Testify, Statehood WASHINGTON, Sept. 12— (® — Senator Cordon (R-Ore) wants to call quits to the investigation of | I Il | charges by Senator Schoeppel (R- | Kas) that Communist influences have reached into the Interior De- partment. However, he told reporters today, “it's quite clear the committee is go- ing to go ahead and take all the publicity it can” from the inquiry. Cordon is a member of the Senate | Interior Committee which is inves- | tigating the charges. He told the | group yesterday he considered “the | incident closed” with the angry den- | ial and supporting evidence submit- ted by Secretary Chapman and oth- ers Schoeppel named in his blast at the Interior Department. The Senate Republican policy committee Saturday disavowed any connection with Schoeppel’s charges, | made in a Senate speech last week. | The committee conducting the in- | vestigation has a Democratic ma- jority led by Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo). | To Continue. Hearings | O'Mahoney told reporters he be- | leves it “would be highly improper” | to wind up the hearings before all of | those named by Schoeppel can be | heard. He said the Committee plans | to hear some more of them tomor- | row, and also hopes to take testi- | mony from Frank T. Bow, Schoep- | pel’s administrative assistant. ! Schoeppel, who says he thinks/| now his charges may have been “fli little strong,” has told the commit- Miss America of 1951 Miss America 1951, who came to Atlantic City as Miss Alabama, Yolande Betbeze of Mobile, steps out on the runway seconds after she tee Bow did most of the ,egearch} was crowned America’s queen of beauty. (P Wirephoto. that led to the accusations. alty affidavit was stricken from the Schoeppel had asserted that loy-| M AI N E voTES oath of office Chapman signed in 1946 as Undersecretary of the In- terior. He said he wanted to know whether Chapman had stricken that portion of the oath because of mem- bership in Communist front organ- izations. “Edited” Affidavit Two Interior Department offic- jals yesterday confirmed the ex- planation of the “edited” affida- vit offered by Chapman. (Continued on Page Two) The W»ash'ington Merry- Go-Round (Copyright. 1950. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON WSHINGTON-—A top secret in- telligence report on China’s nego- tiations with Russia on the vital question of coming in or staying out of the Korean war has just been received in Washington. Obviously it is impossible to know how accurate these reports are re- | garding such important figures as Molotov and Mao Tse-Tung. How- ever, here is what; they are sup- posed to have talked about in their recent Peiping meeting. - Molotov, who is Stalin's Far East manager, was unable to.budge Mao. China’s Communist hoss, on the Korean War. Mao is reported 1o have refused point-blank to inter- vene in the Korean war or to set a date for the invasion of ¥or- mosa, or to attack British Hong Kong or: Portuguese Macao. Finally, after much wrangling, a 5-point program was agreed to® 1. Russia will outfit 15 Chinece divisions, or a total of 225,000 men. 2. Mao will send limited troops| as “volunteers” to Korea north of the 38th parallel, This, of course, would relieve North Korean trcops to fight south of the 38th parallel 3. China will patrol the Man- churian-Korean border. 4. Molotov and Mao will meet again this month to reach an agree- | ment on the invasion of Formosa. All summer the Russians have heea demanding the Communists make| prim ries. TRUE T0 FORM AS GOP WINS |Seven State Primaries To- | day-Sen_Magnuson Un- opposed inWashington (By the Assoclated Press) Seven scattered states held pri- mary elections today, but chief na- tional interest remained centered on New England where Maine vot- ers ran true to form yesterday and kept Republicans in all major of- fices. The Maine voting, always first in the nation, was the initial state- wide election since the war broke out in Korea. Democrats, despite their traditional decided minority, put up an unusually stiff campaign. But the voters returned to office Republican Governor Frederick G. Payne and three sitting GOP House Members, Reps. Robert Hale, Charles P. Nelson and ¥rank Fel- lows. It was the state's eighth straight Republican sweep. The GOP, in fact, polled a higher percentage of votes than it did in 1946, also a non-presidential year. Incomplete figures gave Payne about 67 percent of the votes, com- pared with 61 percent in 1946. Spotlight on New Hampshire Attracting most interest in to- day’s primary voting was New Hampshire. Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey was opposed for | nomination for a third term by | Wesley Powell, an attorney and | former administrative assistant to | Tobey’s colleague, GOP Senator | Styles Bridges. Tobey is one of the self-styled Republican Liberals in the Senate. The race is regarded as close. Tobey was one of only two Sena- tors who faced opposi‘ion in today’s The other is Senator (Continued on Page Four) L (Eontin{led_on Page Two) BIG 3 HAVE DIFFERENCES OF OPINION German Rearmament Hot Issue-Acheson May Pro- pose Milifary Pooling By Associated Press) The forei policy chiefs of the United States, Britain and France gathered in New York to map the expansion of Western Europe's de- fenses to meet the threat of a Red aggression. Sharp differences of opinion were said to exist among Secretary of State Acheson, British Foreign Secretary Bevin and French For- eign Minister Schuman on the issue of rearming Germany, but diplo- mats say the three days of Big Three conferences probably will iron out most of these differences. The United States has “several concrete proposals” to place before the other two nations on defense of Europe. Acheson is reported about to propose that the 12 At- lantic Treaty nations, who meet fol- gin pooling military power and ex- panding forces in the maximum. Home Front On the American home front the indications were that the moves to rearm the nation would not this time be reflected in anything like the shortages of World War II. The impact will be on the av- erage taxpayers’ pocketbook. The government has asked the steel industry to figure out how much it can expand production capacity, which has passed the 100,- 000,000 tons a year mark, the highest point in history. Executives of copper, aluminum and other in- dustries also are to confer with Washington on steps to expand | production. : (Continued on Page Two) lowing the Big Three sessions, be- | EXTRA JOHNSON ~ OUSTED BY PRESIDENT BULLETIN — WASHINGTON, Sept. 12— (P —President Tru- man has dropped Louis Johnson from his Cabinet.and called upon Gen. Marshall to succeed him as Secretary of Defense. Marshall said he will accept the | Presidential request to become Secretary of Defense if Congress passes a law to permit him to serve. BIG PLANE ' DISAPPEARS | - INT. ALASKA | |C-41 Transfi, with Five Dept. A U 8. PETERSBURG MAN SHOT, KILLED BY {4-YEAR-OLD BOY | Aboard Missing, Eielson to Elmendorf Base | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 12— | (P—An Air Force C-47 transport is| reported missing on a flight from| interior Alaska to Elmendorf base| | with five persons aboard. | | The plane disappeared late last| night. | A |launched by planes of the Tenth| | Rescue Squadron | fighters. | The transport was flying soutt | from the Eielson Air Force Basc and the last report from Talkeetna about 75 miles north of here, was ‘Lhat it was expected to arrive about 111:15 p.m. i Flying conditions were hazardous wind anc wide scale search has beén| and Air Force | at the time with high rain. Searchers thought they spotted the wreckage in the Chugach moun- | tains but a closer check showed it to be the wreckage of a plan that crashed several years ago. Names of those five aboard {lie missing plane have been withheld EXECUTIVE BOARD OF P-TA PLAN MEETS First Executive Board meeting of the Parent-Teachers Association wa: held last night in the office of the Superintendent of Schools Sterling | Sears. | | The board discussed committee ap- pointments, plans for the teacher reception to be held on Wednesday evening, September 13, and made| plans for the first regular P.-T.A meeting which will be held Monday September 18. | STEAMER MOVEMENTS Aleutian from Seattle sceduled t arrive at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday. | Freighter Ring Splice scheduled ! sail from Seattle Sept. 15. Alaska scheduled to sail fr Seattle Saturday. Baranof from west schedult southbound 8 a.m. tomorrow. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sep.t 12 — Closit quotation of Alaska Juneau mif stock today is 2%, American Can 5 Anaconda 35%, Curtiss-Wright ¢ | International Harvester 31%, K | necott 647%, New York Central 1: Northern Pacific 23'2, U. 8. Stet 138%, Pound $2.80%. | Sales today were 1,680,000 share | Averages today are as follows | dustrials 22081, rails 65.98, utiilt 13!5 90 | shooting | Hoch, fo Juneau-Case Waiv- ed fo District Court PETERSBURG, Alaska, Sept. 12 » — A l4-year-old boy was charged today with first degree murder in connection with the Sept. 9 of Paul Albert 50. The boy, Richard Eugene Har- ris, is to be taken to the federal jail at Juneau following a hearing before U.S. Commisioner Dale H. Hirt. Although his case was under | the Territory’s juvenile code, juris- diction was waived to district court. Acting U.S. Marshal Waltery Hellan came here from Juneau to attend the hearing. Hoch’s body was found near his partly-built homestead cabin six miles south of Petersburg, A cor- oner’s jury had decided he was killed by some unknown person. Hoch came here from Denver in July. The boy is the son of Richard Harris of Petersburg and Mrs. V. G. Fox of San Pedro, Calif, Hi grandfather, Charles Harris, lives at Sumner, Wash. For two years the boy lived at the Hubert Spauld- ing home on Vashon Island. Hoch filed his homesite permit last July 20. Hoch was born Nov. 26 ,1906, in Prosser, Wash, MATS SERVICE UPS PACFIC AR LIFT, CUTS BACK CIVILIAN WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—P— Civilian airlines will carry a smaller part of the Far Pacific Air Lift starting Sept. 20, the Military Air Transport (MATS) Service has an- nounced. The Air Force said a progressive cutback in the use of civilian planes has been made possible by the in- creasing number of military air- craft and crews now available to fly men anil materials to Japan) and Korea. Representatives of 17 scheduled and non-scheduled airlines were told yesterday that they would be required to furnish about 10 per- cent less air lift help beginning Sept. 20 than originally planned for the month. Maj. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter, - MATS Commander, told the airlines that the October cutback will be about 20 percent. | FROM SEATTLE | H. V. Davis and John Portras of Seattle are registered at the Baranof Hotel. | Early Quits | AsDep. Seqy. | 'Youngster Will Be Brought VO' De'ense! Ross Announces Action But! i Won't Talk About John- son on Way Out WASHINGTON, Sept. 12— (& — Stephen Early resigned today as Deputy Secretary of Defense. President Truman accepted the resignation, effective Sept. 30, say- ing he did so reluctantly. The White House said Early has | been trying to quit since he com- pleted the one year of duty he agreed to serve when he accepted the appointment May, 1949. He is to return to his post as a vice presi- dent of Pullman, Inc. Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross, who announced Early’s action, declined again to comment on a re- port by a highly placed Presidential adviser that Secretary of Defense Johnson is on his way out of the Cabinet. Asked whether Johnson is plan- ning to resign, Ross said that he was not a mind reader.” Pressed furth- ( er, Ross said “I have no informa- tion to give you on that point.” Johnson has been under fire in | Congress and elsewhere in connec- tion with the Korean war situation BENSON GOES WEST ON OFFICIAL WORK Henry A. Benson, Territorial Com- missioner of Labor, left yesterday for the westward on official busi- ness. While absent he will hear Workmen Compensation cases, es- pecially the Rector Land vs. Alaska Airlines, and Stewart vs. the Mat- anuska Valley Cooperative. ROTARY WEL(OMES GIBSON, GUERTIN: Dr. John Gibson and Floyd Guer- tin were welcomed into the Juneau ! Rotary Club at a regular luncheon i meeting today at the Baranof Ho- | tel. President Ellis Reynolds an- nounced that it was time to take stock of activities and passed out paper on which membgrs were tol make suggestions for activties for | the coming year. Charles Carter gave a brief review of Rotary history since it started in Chicago in 1905 and has grown to 7,074 clubs throughout the civil- ized world today. Virgil Baker of Seattle is register- ed at the Baranof Hotel. l 25th Division machinegun crew stands guard for enemy approach as medics remove a wounded soldier from mountain side near Masan on southern Korean front. U. S. Army Photo via (® Wirephoto. NTI-TRUST CASES (OME UP 0CT. 31 Adtion fo Start on Grand Jury Indictments Made at Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Sept. 12—M—With only a single plea of innocent the cases of 23 corporations, 135 individ- uals and one Trade Association charged with violations of Federal anti-trust laws, have been contin- ued until Oct. 31. Attorneys of bott sides believe the cases may drag on for years until they eventually are aired in court. The single plea was entered by an individual, Alice Fortney of Rain- bow Cleaners, Anchorage, through her attorney on Aug. 31. Since that date there has been no further court action in connection with the cases Meanwhile three arraignments slat- ed for this week have been tenta- tively postponed until early Novem- ber. They are the arraignments of liquor dealers of Anchorage, Seward and Ketchikan, o, i, o ey i Alaska Steam Case The postponements clear the deck for a full scale legal scrimmage on 31 when the Alaska Steamship Co. is due in Third District Court to face both civil and criminal suits. Attorneys for ASC and for the gov- ernment are due to arrive in Anch- orage at that time. The shipping firm was among those named in sweeping indictments which early last July charged scores of firms with * price-fixing monopolies in transportation, fuel, liquor, food and services. Vote On Indictments Alleged presence of a felon on the record-making grand jury had bolstered defense hopes that some of the ten indictments would be invalid. On Sept. 1 Judge Anthony Dimond revealed that 18 jurors con- curred in six indictments; 18 con- curred in the remaining four. Only 12 are needed for a true bill. It is possible that the votes indicate un- >animous concurrence of all of the 22 jurors present during some days }of the long investigation. Vote Was Challenged The vote was challenged by at- torneys for the Healy River Coal Corporation, one: of three Alaskan coal companies charged with divid- ing the coal market among them- selves and fixing prices on approxi- mately $2,500,000 worth of hard coal sold to the military in the Territory annually. Early in Augus a formal order dismissed the name of the firm’s defendants’ the late Austin E. Lathrop, who was killed (Continued on Page Two) Will Continue IMPORTANT ROAD GAIN IN KOREA Artillery_Ro‘ars, Along Wide Froni-3,000 Reds Are Being Trapped (By the Assoclated Press) A battalion of U.S. First Cavalry Divislon troops stormed and cap- tured a strategic hill eight miles north of Taegu today in the face of heavy fire. They secured high ground commanding the road from the north into Taegu, key Allled forward base in South Korea. The American battallon—a bat- talion is 1,000 men—was reported to have sustained heavy casualties in the fighting, in which Allied planes aided by a scorching attack with machinegun fire, rockets and jel- lied gasoline firébombs. This is the area in which a US. Regimental Commander said lurked the main threat to Taegu. Some 10,000 Reds are massed north of the Taegu positions, and for the third s‘raight day their artillery roared in a heavy barrage against United Nations positions. Such artillery preparation usually signals a gen- eral attack. Trapping 3,000 Reds In, the esstern sector of the northern “front west of the fallen port of Pohang, a secret U.9. task force struck in a move to trap 3,000 Red troops in a cor- ridor deep within Allied lines. The task force is headed by a famous West Point football star who cari- not be identified now by name. South Korean forces in the eastern sector have sealed off the north entrance to the corridor, and the task force, striking toward the southern gate, drove ahead 2% miles against bitter Red opposi- tion. The force wants to take high ground at the base of the corridor. Ridge Recaptured On the southwestern anchor of the Allied front, U.S. 25th Division troops counterattacked before dawn Tuesday and recaptured a com- manding ridge four miles south of the confluence of the Nam and Naktong rivers in a tough battle against numerically superior Reds. Allied planes in close support of ground troops were out in strength again after a record day Mpnday, when 683 individual flights were made by midnight. “Worst is Over” “The worst is over,” declared Lt. Gen, Walton - H, Walker, US. Ground Forces Commander ' Ko- rea. While the North Koreans still are capable of throwing a Sunddj punch and still hold the initiative, “I am sure we can stop him now,” Walker said. WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Perlod ending 8:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 63; minimum, 42. At Airport—Maximum, 62; minimum, 38. FORECAST (Junesu and Vieinity) Increasing - cloudiness to- night with lowest tempera- ture 48. Mostly cloudy and cooler Wednesday with oc- casional light showers. High- est Wednesday near 56. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Junean—None; since Sept. 1—4.10 inches; since July 1—15.16 inches. At Airport—None; since Sept. 1—241 inches; since July 1—1441 inches. ® & o o 0 0 o o o TIDE TABLE September 13 High tide 2:22 am., 183 ft. Low tide 8:56 p.m. e o 0000 0 0 0 © 00 0000000000000 000000000000000000%000