The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 25, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,615 e ——— JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1950 ME .\Il‘.E R A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ) . S. FORCES ARE SLUGGING INTO SEOU E(lIPSE AOFMOON - TONIGHT NEW YOR.K‘ Bflpt. 25—(P—If it fsn't’ cloug ‘tonight, go outside and | watch ‘the ‘total eclipse of.the moon. Swebstter permitting, it will be vis- ble tor all North America. e urnehble (EST) runs like 4 ‘Moon enters Earth’s incomplete shadow." (Penumbra), 8:20 p.m.,; Moon ;. eriters complete shadow (Umbra), 9:31 p.m.; total eclipse be- gins, 10:64¢ p.m.; ends, 11:40 p.m.; Moon" leaves Umbra, 1:02 am.; leaves Penumbra, 2:13 a.m. * Astronomers say the Moon prob- ably will be a deep coppery red dur- ing . the total eclipse due to red rays of sunlight bent into the sha- dow by the Earth’s atmosphere. But if world cloud. conditions are Just right, the Moon may be a com- Pplete blackout. ] GAMES TODAY +NEW YORK, Sept. 26 — (® — The New York Yankees edged closer to the American League pennant today by defeafing Washington, 8-3, in the first.game of a doubleheader. N;"York stretched its lead over Dafroit i three games in the final week'of. the ‘season. 'yhe Yanks had seven games left, inel g-1this afternoon’s second n'alt ldle todny, ‘also had won his 15th vic- - Xork Whit- -pitcher Sandy §uicoessors. g Fag St 4 rnmu)nrm Sép‘ 25—m—| Te ‘Boston Red Sox snapped a four fim -Iosing -streak and ‘kept alive thelr - alim: American League pen- npnit; Hopes today as they turned baek Sthe ‘last place Philadelphia Athletics 8 to 0 behind the three B shut out’ pitching of Lefty Mel Parnell, . BROOKLYN, Sept., 25—(P—Pee- wee. Reest's ‘tenth home run in the fourtlr inning provided the one-run mafgin the Brooklyn Dodgers needed | o' defeat the New York Giants, 3-2, ih the first game of & day-night doubleheader. Preacher Roe, held the Giants in check’ until the ninth: when they scored two runs. It was Roe’s 19th victory of .the season. NEW MEXICO VISITOR Elsie C. Daily of Albuguerque, N. M, :is registered at the Baranof Hotel. I'he Washington Merry Go - Round ly DIEW P loN ABHING’ION—-’nim has been a:lot-of Congressional debate as totwho “was to ‘blame for our be- lnz caught napping - h ‘Korea. But has ‘touched upon mg most antazing ‘story 9:1 Km:in: @mrm whic! n Mata Hari l!vcd with an Mfim‘filn/ Army. colonel ‘and gave e, unists intimate -details on¢ Amxfiun Army *strength. '.Ql dy in question, now exe- wfiedn:spy, was Kim 800 Im, a vivacious, Ameriean-educated Kor- ean girl' who was married to one of Korea’s. top ‘Communists, Lee Kang Kook. At the same time she was mar- ried to Lee she was the mistress of a ‘top’ American colonel, John E. Baird, who, as' Proyost Marshal, was 'in charge of keeping law and order among Anferfean troops in Korea, He was also top adviser to the new Korean Army. Colonel Baird occupled one of the most elegant houses in Seoul, and for a time Madame Kim lived with him. According to the Korean press, she even bore him a child. It was well known to Koreans that Kim Soo Im was intimate with the colonel. They were seen *MISS U. S. TELEV ISION" — quhe Adams, (above), 23-year-old blonde of Ténafly, N. J., was chosen “Miss i S. Television” over twelve candidates in contest at Chicago Fair. (AP PATROL .| PLANE GOES TITO'S MAN DENOUNCES CONGRESS | Taxes on swollen business: profits, | needed. The House had overturned | | day afternoon. The vote there was IN RECESS TONOV.217 Many Problems Come Up Then-See What Will Hap- pen by Passed Laws WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — (# = statehood for Hawaii and Alaska and possibly rent control look like | the big issues when Congress re- turns to Washington two months from now. | Even those problems may be too big to handle in a quick session be- tween Nov. 27 and the Christmas | holidays. They were the major left-overs | when weary lawmakers knocked off | work late Saturday with a slap at| President Truman—a thumping re- | jection of his veto of a stiff anti- Communist bill. The bill was put on the lawbooks | when the Senate voted 57 to 10 to override the veto. That was 12 votes more than the two-thirds majority the veto within an hour after M| Truman sent it to Capitol Hill “"i 286 to 48. Senate Filibuster The Senate vote came late Satur- day after a small group of Sena-“ tors had talked against the bill, almost around the clock, waging what they acknowledged was, a losing fight. Senator Langer (R-ND) colup.ed from exhaustion on the Senate floor after speaking for five and a half | hours against the bill. He was taken Captured Norlh Koreans in Imima Noflfi Korean soldiers captured in fighting in Inchon huddle along a curbstone under guard of U. Marines. (/) Wirephota. MISSING PLANE IS LOCATED (U. . Boml;Crashes in Labrador Wilderness— “To Evacuate Victim's HALIFAX, N.S., Sept. 25—P— Blazes Are GRESSION INTO (RASHl AG Craft Burns with Three|Vice Premier Infroduces Dead Listed - Famous UN Resolutions to Golfer Badly Burned Stop Soviets EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 25— &y, XOM. OCHBANES —A Civil Air Patrol ~lane crashed NEW YORK, — (® — Yugoslay and burned in a ruilroad yards|yjce Premier Edvard Kardelj called near here last night, killing three today for the temporary re-estab- | officers and seriously injuring Skip| jishment of the 38th Parallel as Alexander, top-flight professional| the demarcation line in Korea. He golfer. attacked those supporting North Neighbors fdund the 32-year-|gorea’s aggressive course. old Lexington, N. C., golfer crawl-| 15 a policy speech before the ing into a field, his clothes afire.} . N. General Assembly, the Yugo- He was expected to recover. slav official declared that Premier At Sioux Falls, 8. D., where the| parshal Tito's government “con- plane was based, the CAP listed |giders that the present policy of the the dead as: government of North Korea does Col. James R. Barnett, 44, of| ot serve the cause of the true in- Sioux Falls, commanding officer| gependence and unity of the Kor- of the South Dakota wing of CAP |ean people.” Lt. Oliver A. Singleton, 28. In the same speech he charged Lt. Duane M. Reeves, 28, that the Soviet bloc is increasing to the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, | Parachutists have been dropped to Alexander’s left leg was broken above the ankle and he was burned on the hands, arms and face. Alexander had finished sixth in the $15,000 Kansas City Open golf tournament yesterday and was on his way to his home at Lexington, N. C. Bob Hamilton of Evansville, a former professional golf cham- pion, said Alexander told him in the hospital he had ‘“hitched” a ride on the military plane, (CASUALTIES ARE LISTED|- WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 — P — The Defense Department today re- leased a Korean casualty list (No. 106) containing the names of 231 servicemen, of whom 55 are dead. The death list included 19 pas- sengers aboard a Navy transport which -crashed into the sea near Kwajalein, in the Marshall Islands, Sept. 18. In addition, seven crewmen died in the crash. In addition to the dead, the casualty list included 116 wounded, 50 missing, 10 injured in accidents in the war zone. MAYNARD MILLER BACK Maynard Miller returned from Se- together publicly. And it was also) o0 guer the weekend and is stay- known by many Koreans that she was married to one of the top Communists, Lee Kang Kook, who had been hiding from the military ing at the Juneau Hotel. SEATTLE VISITOR F. R. Sumpter of Seattle is stop- ping at the Baranof Hotel. the pressure on Yugoslavia by provoking border incidents almost daily, Although he did not mention the Soviet Union or Communist China by name, Kardelj’s meaning on Korea was obvious. Kardelj’s statement regarding the 38th Parallel came at a time when |, it appeared likely U. N. forces in Korea soon might reach that old dividing line, He made no specific reference on U. N. troops. In the Security Council Yugoslavija ab- stained on the June resolution or- dering military action - against rth Korea. Simultaneously Yugoslavia intro- duced two resolutions designed to strengthen the Assembly’s e{torn |w prevent aggression. One calls for the establishment Iof a permanent mediation com- mission made up of small powers. The other requires a nation in- volved in armed conflict to issue a cease-fire order within 24-hours and to withdraw its armed forces from disputed territory. Failure to do so automatically would brand the country as an aggressor. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 25 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 99%, Curtiss-Wright 9%, Interna- tional Harvester 30%, Kennecott 65%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 24%, U.S. Steel 38%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 2,010,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 226.06, rails 68, utilities 40.06. Md., and is reported to be A.dmng‘begm rescue operations for 16 United States airmen whose B-50 bomber crashed Thursday in Labrador wild- erness, the Fort Pepperell Air Base reported today. The stricken bomber was discov- {ered last night after being missing ,for three days, and a U.S. Air Force | team immediately took steps to evac- | uate the men by helicopter. The helicopter will move the men to a | nearby lake, where a Canadian am- | phibian plane will pick them up. The Royal Canadian Air Force said an RCAF Lancaster spotted the plane some 95 miles southwest of Goose Bay. The U.S. Air Force Unit at Goose Bay began immediate preparations to evacuate the 12 crewmen and four passengers, missing on a rou- tine flight from Goose Bay to Tuc- son, Arizona. All are military per- sonnel. It was presumed evacuation would {be completed today, barring bad weather. Finding of the missing air giant climaxed a vast air search extending from the wilds of Labrador to the Arizona desert. Scores of Canadian and American planes took part ir the hunt. Smoke signals attracted the Lan- caster to the area where the 16 sur- vivors had constructed a shelter Signs on the rocky ground asked for food and supplies. No medical sup- plies were requested. Officials inter- preted this as signifying no one was well.” Another major enactment of the | adjourned Congress will have almost immediate effect. Income Tax Jumps Starting next Sunday, income tax | withholdings will jump one-fifth for most of the nation’s 50,000,000 in- come taxpayers. Means Committee has decided to start public hearings Nov. 15 on a second tax increase which Con- gress has pledged will include an excess profits tax on corporations. Estimates are that it will produce from $4,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,- 000,000 a year. Rent Control Bill Rep. Spence (D-Ky) told news- men that he hopes to have a new rent control bill ready for action during the short session. The pre- sent law expires generally on Jan. |1, although local communities can extend controls for another siX| months by taking positive action | to do so. Spence is Chairman of the House Banking Committee, which handles rent legislation. There appeared to be considerable doubt that Congress would find time to act before next year on rent controls, or on such other items of | unfinished business as the govern- ment’s master plan for civil defense. Congress Back Nov. 27 House and Senate set Nov. 27 to get back to the legislative grind. Some members are bound to return as defeated “lame-ducks,” as all 435 House seats and 36 of the 96 in the Senate are at stake in the November { election. The new 82nd Congress Will open Jan. 3. A Congress in which Democrats | had majorities in both Senate and House gave the President only part of the domestic legislation he aske d. Accomplishments On the list of ‘accomplishmen besides the tax increase, were items like: A big expansion of the Social Se curity program to increase benefi and make perhaps 10,000,000 more people eligible for them. Removal of federal taxes on 0l¢0- margarine. Raising from $5,000 to $10,000 the Federal Insurance on bank deposits: Boosting the national minim im wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour A $1,500,000,000 slum clearance 4 low-cost housing program. But many a Truman pr went to the scrap pile and there. For example: Civil rights legislation. The D "v' forms of both big parties backed but it couldn’t climb past the (It of a southern filibuster. In tion: e (Continued on Page Two) The tax-writing House Ways and | badly hurt. B. Stevens and H. Toner of Mt Edgecumbe are registered at the Baranof Hotel, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent K. Jones of Denver are registered at the Bara- nof Hotel. ®© o 00 0 0 0 0 00 WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Perlod ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 51; minimum, 46. At Airport—Maximum, 51; minimum, 46. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with light rain shewers tonight and Tues- day. Lowest temperature to- night about 48. Highest Tues- day near 53. PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—0.24 inches since Sept. 1 — 10.81 inches; since July 1—21.87 inches. At Airport — 0.10 inches; since Sept. 1 — 7.23 inches; since July 1—19.23 inches. ® ® 90 900 0 0 00 Straddling Alaska Road Over One Mred Forest Flres Are Raging i in Canadian- Areas EDMONTON, Alta., Sept. 25—(®— More than 100 forest fires were re- ported sweeping through Northern Columbia and Alberta today, de- stroying valuable timber stands and sending a pall of smoke across the continent. The worst fires were in northeastern British Columbia near the Alaska Highway, where an Air Force officer counted 60 blazes rag- ing out of control in a 300-mile stretch of largely unsettled country. He estimated the size of the largest at 120 miles wide by 125 to 150 miles long. The other fires are in Alberta. The officer, Flt. Lt. Jack Jaworski, operations officer at Northwest Air Command, said after a flight over the area that it is impossible for the few people in the B.C. fire area to fight the flames. “All they can do is pray for rain,” he said. “It would take three days‘ solid rain to stop the fires.” The four worst fires straddle thc Alaska Highway from south of Port St. John, B.C, to the Northwest Territories. Another string of blazes 2xtends from Peace River 200 miles west to the Rocky Mountain foot- aills in British Columbia. “In one area south of Fort St. Joseph, I counted 46 separate small j fires,” said J#worski. Telephone communications be- tween Edmonton, the Yukon and Alaska were cut for a time by one >f the blazes but were restored today when a temporary line was strung along the Alaska Highway south of Fort Nelson, B.C. In Edmonton, a blanket of smoke 4,000 feet thick that moved over the city late yesterday continued to dim the sun. Son of Ketchikan Vioman Killed in Adion in Korea WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 — (# — Pfc. Walter L. McLeod, Jr., son of Mrs. Mary B. McLeod of Ke Alaska (Box 1601), was listed by the Defense Department today as killed in action in Korea. UNION OIL MEN HERE E. Maiers and W. H. Schwind, of the Seattle Union Oil office are stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali from Seattle due to arrive late tomorrow night or early Wed- nesday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday. Alaska from west scheduled south- bound at 8:30 tonight and \thllLl about 11:45 o'clock. | | S. Dramatic Spy Trial Is Listed (By the Associated Press) The East-German Communist leaders are preparing a dramatic spy trial in which the doomed men Wwho'll be featured are ‘six one-time Communist. big shots. One serious charge to -be brought against at least some of the six is that they made the mistake of opposing Adolf Hitler at a time when Stalin was “non-aggressing” in collaboration | with Hitler, It's possible that the long-missing | Noel Field will be produced by the | Communists at the trial. Field has | a mysterious record as well as whereabouts. He once was a mem- ber of the State Department. After the Second World War he disap- peared behind the Iron Curtain. Western authorities call him a Com- munist. The Communists call l'lle\ a spy. Those who are going to puL on the spy trial hint that Field will | appear. GOVERNOR TO BE ON BROADCAST | FRGM ANCHORAGE returned Gov. Ernest vamm, Saturday by Pan American from | Washington, D.C, where he had | i been summoned to appear before | the Senate Interior and Insular Af- | fairs Committee. 1 | dreds—even thousands—of | strugglé ‘for the capital. DESPERATE. EFFORT T American Forces Thousand of Cémmies (By the Associated Press) Marines and Doughboys slugged mined effort to recapture the capi- ‘tal of the Soith Korean Republic exactly three months from the day the North Korean Communists launched their inv n. Seoul fell to the Reds two days after the in- yasion began. In the south, other Americans speared to within 40 miles of a link- up with northern American forces in a lightning advance. The linkup would seal off tens of thousands of Communists in a vast trap. American and South = Korean forces were overunning places whose names became familiar in bloody battles of just a few weeks .aga: U.S. First.Cavalry Division troopers, smashing ahead 70 miles in four days,. have driven into Chongju, From there they were in position to drive to Chochiwon, 10 miles to the west, a jynction on the main high- way from Taegu to Seoul. They were only 40 miles from U.8. Seventh In- fantry troops pushing south from the Inchon-Seoul beachhead. Kumchon Captured U.S. 24th Division troops cap- Communist hands. Taegon was the scene of the bitterest defeat of the 24th Infantry Division. To the south, U.S. 25th Infantry Division troops captured Chinju, key to the Communist drive along the south coast. It was taken in bitter fighting after the Reds ig-' | nored “surrender or die” leaflets. This American drive bypassed hun- munists who now *have no escape route, South Korean troops entered An- dong, 48 miles north of Taegu, and other South Koreans drove into Yopgdok on the east coast, 25 miles north of Fohang. War Materiel Recaptured Vast quantities of war materiel is being recaptured, and some is be- ing recaptured — equipment the Americans lost fn their bitter re- treats, The American flag flew from a hut on the highest point in Seoul's Tongmaksang district. From this point Marines poured mortar fire into Red strongpoints in the capital. Units of the Seventh Division, an American-South Korean outfit, joined the Marines in the payoff Its 32nd deep into Seoul today in a deter- of Chacm.r Mfim@:fl and Chochiwon lies Taegon, still i’ Com- " He left Juneau again this morn- | Regiment speared actdss the Seouls ing, boarding an Air Force airplane | Suwon highway” and’ crossed ‘the sent to take him to Anchorage to |Han river. participate tonight in a program with the Alaskan Defense Command. This program is for a network | bnn(l(.ht of Town Meeting of the Reinforcements Reinforcements poured into the Inchon beachhead and 2400 air- | borne troops sped from Japan by Thc Governor plans to go to Fair- f’"p dropped on' Kimpo . airf northwest of Seoul. banks tomorrow for a meeting, and‘ For the 90th straight day, Far be back in Juneau Friday. MIS|p,o A Force and Royal Australian Prusning nccompanled her husband. ‘Alr Force planes hit North Korean | targets. B-29's and light bombers | and fighters hit almost 100 targets 10 RED I.EADERS in a record 728 sorties, ‘ In Washington, U.S. Defense De~ FREED 0 o D | partment observers said ‘it was too N B N (-‘\rly to predict when Allied vietory |in Korea might come, but the use Ju'DGE jA(KSON | of airborne troops indicated a mass- | ing of swift-striking mobile strength T | to be coordinated in the final anni- WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 — (P — | pilation blow. Justice Jackson of the Supreme Court today allowed freedom on South Mountain Taken bond, pending an appeal, for 10| Latest report is that Marines and of the 11 U. S. Communist leaders | Infantry seized South Mountain om convicted of conspiracy to advo-| the way to the heart of Seoul cate forceable overthrow of the|Around this mountain most of the government ‘Suum Korean capital is built. Jackson’s stay of sentence, as| Four Allied columns battled into it is technically called, permits the | | zhe capital, The spokesman said the convicted leaders to remain free v Marines and Infantry had linked up until final Supreme Court zuuux:‘u some point inside the city. He on a formal appeal to be filed later. | added that Marine units reached The appeal will ask the high tri- | Duk Soo Palace, center of a cluster bunal to overthrow the conviction |of government buildings, but he of the Red officials by a New YOlk‘muld not say whether the Ameri- Jury. { cans had captured the Palace from In it he declared there \mulu | the Communists. be a “disastrous effect on the my-‘ Fall of Seoul to the Americans utation of American justice if 1|seemed imminent. It has been in should now send these men to jail | Communist hand§ for three months and the full court later (‘&'Udl’d\»-ffl]]u‘g to them two days after that their conviction is invalid.” they launched their invasion July 25, it Squeeze Play fo Trap, @ -