The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1950 VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,617 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS — ] SEOUL KEY POINTS REPORTED CAPTURED At Ihe Barricades TRUMAN POLITICS REVEALED Jonathan D;iels' Biogra-1 phy of Pesident | Shakes Skelefons | WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — (# — Jonathan Daniels’ biography of | President Truman set political i skeletons dancing today in a parade which might affect the November Congressional elections. Republicans picked up from the writings of the Presidential confi- dante and former White House aide the statement that Mr. Truman ap- | peared “lost in uncertainty and in- | eptitude” in handling one vital | foreign policy decision in 1946. Southern Democrats whom the | administration has been trying to || woo back into the fold bristled anew at word the President once said || James F. Byrnes had “failed miser- |/ ably as Secretary of State.” The!' New York Herald Tribune quoted || Byrnes as replying: “If he felt that || way, why should he have wanted a | miserable failure around?” Truman supporters found solace in Tepeated Presidential statements | as recorded by Daniels that Mr.l Truman had opposed for years any | policy of appeasement of Russia. 1 Daniels, who is publisher of the | Raleigh, N.C., News and Observer | and is Democratic National Com- }I i | mitteeman for his state, titled his book, “The Man of Independence.” | A White House aid said Mr. Tru-| man read. part—but not all—of it in advance, of today’s publication. There seemed little doubt that| i PRELUDE TO A DA —_—ee N CE — virginia Mayo laces her dancing ‘shoes’in her dressig room for one of her scenes in “The West Point Story,”. being filmed in San Fernando Valley, Cak, Mr. Truman had give unofficial ap- | proval—the quotes in which he slapped at Byrnes, his former Sec- | retary of State who now is’in line to become next Democratic Gover- | nor of South Carolina. { The President may have missedJ however, some of Daniels’ own ob- servations. WHITE RENEWS CHALLENGE T0 ADMINISTRATION MRS. BEN BURFORD DIES | 1 a wire Tuesday to the Fair- SUDDENLY IN SEATTLE whie, cenerst Gounset o e Re- | publican Party, renewed his chal- Jack ‘Burford has received word |1enge to debate “the Corruption, that Margaret Burford, wife of his | Malfeasance and Misfeasance of the { Territorial Administration” with d | ‘brother, G. Ben Burford, passed| o ... prmest Gruening. ‘morning in ttle : ;z;yanaszgng‘ ll:(‘:anh;gttack. e | White said that, since the Gov- G. Ben Burford, chief engineer on ernor is present in Juneau and is ; expected to be here all week, it the Fish and Wildlife vessel Lt. 2. {should not be necessary to debate Andrew Zussman which is nOW 8- | ;o jsques with what he termed proaching the Pribilof Islands, htaS‘an “wunderling.” Boen santacied IR gnd Wit 8t~ | White has ‘offered to pay for the s e e |rental of a hall, charge a fifty beld in’Seattle. g by b { cent admission and donate all pro- Mrs. Burford is survives y her | cods to the Cancer Fund. mother, Mrs. J. Christianson and four brothers, all of Seattle. The Washington At a Glance (By the Associated Press) Merry - Go - Round pyright, 1850, by Bell Syndicate, 1Inc.) 0o By DREW PEARSON 'ASHINGTON—It's a paradoxi- cal fact that, while the government | g, : K has been cracking down on war| ighting front—U.S. Marines cap hoarders, the Agriculture Depart | ture South Korean capitol and For- 0! y - nt has been breaking all re eign Consulate buildings in heart of me! P cords for hoarding. Since the Kor- ean war, the Agriculture Depart- ment has hidden away in caves an- ‘other 47,2000,000 pounds of cheese, | 30,200,000 pounds of butter, and 16,- 700,000 pounds of dried eggs. This, remember, is all since the Korean war started. Meanwhile, food costs have been skyrocketing.‘ Purpose of this government hoardu; ing was supposed to stabilize mrml prices, Yet the artificial shortages | on top of the war crisis, have cre-; ated a crisis at the corner grocery | store. As a result, not only the house- wives but the Army, too is paying more for butter, eggs and cheese. What this means is that the tax- payers are boosting the prices that | they, themselves, must pay to feed | the Army. Meanwhile, total surplus | food stocks have climbed to 191~ 800,000 pounds of butter; 110,595, 296 pounds of dried eggs; 106,100, 000 pounds of cheese; 320,700,000 pounds of dried milk; 52,623,504 pounds of Mexican beef and the al- most unbelievable figure of three pillion pounds (3,052,500,000) of grain sorghum. Much of this stored food is likely |accuum.s up to $10,000. The pre- burning Seoul, with mop-up battles nearing end. UN. forces close noose around many thousands of Reds trapped by linkup of the Inchon-Seoul beach- head with the Allied southern forces. United Nations '— United States and other countries support British plan to unite all Korea as inde- pendent cbuntry with a government elected under U.N. supervision. SAVINGS ACCOUNTS INSURANCE UPPED BY AFS AND LOAN ASSN. The Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Association of Juneau an- nounced today that, effective im- mediately, federal insurance cover- age will be provided on all savings is vious maximum coverage was $5,000. The increased coverage follows the signing into law by President Tru- man of legislation boosting insur- l ance protection for associations with | e savings accounts insured by the Fed- | ® -— A (Continued on Page Four) ersl Savings and Loan Insurance e Corporation, 1. RENTZEL IS NAMED TO (A BOARD WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — (B — President Truman named Delos W. Rentzel as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board yesterday. Rentzel was nominated as a mem- ber of the board and confirmed by the Senate last week. His appoint- ment as chairman, succeeding Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., had been expected. O’Connell resigned re- cently. Rentzel, a Texan, was administra- tor of the Civil Aeronautics Admin- istration (CAA) before Mr. Truman | picked him for the CAB post. The CAB is an independent agency charged with making avia- tion regulations and passing judg- ment on compliance with them. The CAA handles aviation planning, de- velopment and operations. § STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver at 8 tonight. Alaska scheduled to sail Seattle Saturday. Denali from westward due to ar- rive sometime Monday evening. from They Were Prisoners, then| FROM HOONAH Mrs. Don Underwood of Hoonah stopping at the Baranof Hotel. o o v WEATHER RE?PORT Temperatures for 24-Fiour Period ending 6:20 o'clock th)s morning In Juneau—Maximum, 51; minimum, 44. At Airport—Max!mum, 52; minimum, 42. FOREOCAST (Junesu snd Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with an occa- sional shower tonight and Thursday. Lowest tempera- ture tonight about 45. Highest Thursday near 54. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—0.02 inches; since Sept. 1 — 10.87 inches; since July 1—21.93 inches. At Airport — 0.07 inches} since Sept. 1 — 17.32 inches; since July 1—19.32 inches. e e 0o 0 o 0 0 0 o GIFFORD IS NAMED TOLONDON Selected afimbassador Succeeding Lewis Doug- las Who Quit Post WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — (B — The White House announced today President Truman’s selection of Walter S. Gifford as Ambassador to London. Gifford, former chairman of the board of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and & Re- publican, will succeed Lewis W. Douglas in the post. The formal announcement Wwas made immediately after receipt of British approval of the appointment, tom. Douglas resigned yesterday for “personal considerations, including those of health.” The change will be made effective November 1 after Douglas returns to London to conclude his work there. Douglas plans to stay in London a month, then go to his home in Arizona to rest. Gifford, who did government and war production work in both World Wars, is almost 10 years older than Douglas. An active Republican, he may add strength to bi-partisan co- operation on foreign policy. Americans Murdered Byloreans! Taken Into Ravine at Chinju, Machinegunned | TOKYO, Sept. 27—M—General MacArthur’s headquarters said to- day the bodies of 12 American sol- | covered in Chinju Tuesday by the| U.S. 25th Division. Two other men, wounded but still alive, said 14 of them had been prisoners. Headquarters reported they said when the North Koreans realized Chinju, on the extreme South Ko-| rean front, was about to fall they tied the Americans together marched them into a ravine and turned machineguns orf them. The two survivors were wounded seriously but escaped by shamming | death. Headquarters said the body of 2 a step required by diplomatic cus-| i 4 North Korean was found among those of the murdered Americans. | The dead Red was reported to| have refused to help kill the Ameri- | cans. General MacArthur’s headquar- | ters release said the wounded Ameri- | cans had no food or water for five days. | His summpary said one survivor| was able to give an eye-witness ac- count of the mass murder even though he had been shot five times and was suffering from pneumonia Both wounded Americans were flown to a hospital in Japan. | AP Correspondent Stan Swinton with the 25th Division reported 12 Americans bodies were found Tues- day at Chinju. His account said three others were still alive. BEACH STYLES FOR NEXT SUMMER ARE ANNOUNCED; WHEW LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21—#—G¢! this men: beach styles for nex! summer will include sheer lace nylo! swim suits for the gals. Officials of California appare! creators hastened to add, at a press conference yesterday, that such suits will have “strategic panels.” There'll be other suits without :l:nels—uu over flesh-colored fab- | | A U. 8. Marine Corps tank plows through a break in a North Korean sand bag barricade on a street in South Korean capital of Seoul, followed by a second tank. Photo by Max Desfor, Associated Press staff photographer with the Marines in Seoul. (P Wirephoto via radio from Tokyo. | lg_a‘fliéimweck}llol Shot eight, enemy snipers refused to emerge and surrender. # Wirephoto. BRITISH SHIP 1S REPORTED SEIZED BY RUSS VESSEL LONDON, Sept. 27—(#—A Russian ship commandeered a British fish- ing trawler in the White Sea yes- terday and hurried it off toward a Soviet port, the vessel's owners re- ported today. They protested to the British ‘Foreign Office, which began in- quiries, The seized ship is the 684-ton trawler Swanella, owned by J. Marr and Son, Ltd., of Hull. Twenty men were aboard. Spokesmen for the owners said news of the seizure was radioed from another British trawler, the Kings- ton Agate, which messaged it saw the incident. It was the second Soviet seizure of a British vessel this year. The 373- ton trawler Etruria was arrested in the White Sea last May and ac- cused. of fishing within a mile and a half of the Soviet coast. The vessel was released about 10 days later after paying a fine of $75 in Rus- sian roubles. The White Sea straddles the Arctic Cfrcle and is surrounded on three sides by Russian territory. The Russian ship was described only as a coastal vessel. BUREAU MEN RETURN R. C. Johnson, assistant chief of the Alaska Investigations Division of the Reclamations Bureau, and Daryl Roberts, design engineer, returned yesterday from Denver where they had been on business, including re- cruiting of personnel for the initi- ation of construction on the Eklutna project. Norman Whitaker of Wrangell is e| Seeyou on the beach, hey, Mac’ stopping at the Baranof Hotel. 4 |W|fér_éabouls of Hundreds Of Allied Prisoners in Seoul Remainsldyslery | l e e INO. KOREANS ' NOT ASKING FOR PEACE NEW YORK, Sept. 27—#—United Nations, American and Russian sources today discounted rumors the North Koreans have indicated they were willing to quit fighting and accept a U.N. settlement. Two news agencies carried the re- port, crediting it to responsible but anonymous sources at U.N. head- quarters. Jacob A. Malik, Soviet diplomat who has conveyed to the U.N. sev- eral communications from North Korea, was shown a copy of one dispatch. “Propaganda,” said Malik, with a shrug. RUBY CHILD DIES HERE Services for Gerald Ross, 9, will be held in the Catholic Church here at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. He died at St. Ann's hospital yester- day and will be buried in the Cath- olic plot here. Surviving are his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Ross of Ruby. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Peterson of Spokane, Wash., are registered at the Baranof Hotel. diers with arms bound were dis-| 4 y g Marige tank flamethrower (right) shoots a searing blast at hillside gave near Seoul after e e = TOKYO, Sept. 27—M—The where- abouts of some 300 to 400 Allled prisoners-of-war reported liberated in Seoul remained a mystery to- night. They apparently had been taken from the Korean qlpltll by the Reds. General MacArthur’s war sum- mary reported at 3:20 p.m. that 400 prisoners had been rescued. A field dispatch at 6:59 p.m. from AP Cor- respondent Tom Lambert said army units in Seoul found a list of pris- | oners but no prisoners. “Koreans sald the American POWSs had been moved out of Seoul within the past several days,” Lam- bert added. Evidently the list—which was re- layed to U.S. 10th Corps headquar- ters—was the basis for the terse line in MacArthur's war summary. Lambert’s late evening dispatch said failure to find the prisoners was the major disappointment of the day for the advancing United Nations forces. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 27 — Closing quotation of Alaska .Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 100, Anaconda 34, Curtiss-Wright 8%, International Harvester 30%, Kenecott 63%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacitic 23%, U. 8. Steel 38%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 2,350,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 225.74, rails 66.78, utilities 40.16. MOPUP IN SEOUL IS UNDERWAY Effective Escape Roufes Are Closed - Fate of Reds Now Sealed (By the Associated Press) ‘The mopup fight for burning Seoul, South Korea's capital, ap- peared nearing its end today, and Gen. MacArthur’s headqu an- nounced the fate of Noj Korean forces trapped in the south “is sealed.” U.S. Marines captured the capitol building and the Russian and French Consulates near the heart of the city and raised the American flag over them. The flag flew briefly over the shell damaged Soviet Consulate and then was lowered by & U.S. Marine Company because it was their only big flag and they wanted it for the U.S. Ambassador’s residence. Seoul shuddered and rocked under the impact of heayy fighting but only a relatively small section was still in Red hands. y United Nations forces seized the U.S. Ambassador's residence. The Reds were making a fight to the death stand in sections of the busi- ness district, using steel and. eon- crete butidings in their defense, * - Reds Die Hard " ruins. Furthér destruction inevitable because of the fanatieal resistance of the die-hard Com- munist fighters. Other United Nations units solidi- fied an Allied line now running 218 miles diagonally across the penin- sula from Pusan in the extreme southeast of Seoul, and tightened their vise on thousands of trapped raced up from Taegu to make tact with units of the Seventh Di- vision’s 81st Regiment, who had pushed out from Suwon. Commies Away Communist troops melted away before the advancing American armor. General MacArthur said: “While mopping up fighting is still in pro- gress, all effective escape routes are closed and the fate of the North Korean forces caught in this pocket is sealed.” While the First Cavalry and Sev- enth Division cut the Communist line in one direction, other U.N. Di- visions breaking out from the old perimeter carved many miles into Communist-held territory to the north and west. Along the northern wall of the old Pusan beachhead, South Korean forces drove as much as 55 miles north against virtually no Red re- sistance. On Southern Frent On the southern front a U.S. 25th Division task force pushed out from captured Chinju in a two-pronged drive. One cofumn raced southwest- ward toward Hadong; another stab- bed north west toward Hamyang. Their objective was to deal another pocket of Red Koreans in the south- west corner of the peninsula. In the center, the US. 24th Di- vision sped northwestward toward Taejon where in midsummer the Allies met one of their worst defeats in the war. No Fight Resistance MacArthur’s headquarters said the North Koreans generally were show- ing little will to fight once they realized the Allied tide had set in. Aerial observers sald there were no signs the Reds were attempting to regroup their forces for a stand any- where south of the 38th parallel di~ viding South and North Korea. , In New York, a strong movemant led by Britain was underway in the U.N. General Assembly to frame & peace and reliet plan for Korea. T plan calls for North and South rea to be joined in a free and inde- pendent state with a government | elected under U.N. supervision.