The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1950, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,618 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 NORTH KOREAN ARM FIGHT FOR DEAN MAY SEQUL IS OVER NOW By Don Whitehead | SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 28— (B — The battle for Seoul has ended. Col. Lewis (Chesty) * Puller of Saluda, Va., commanding the first U. S. Marine regiment, fixed the hour of final Allied victory in this cap- ital at 6 p.m. Wednesday (1 am. PST). That was the time, he said, | when the last Korean Reds pulled | back north and east, giving the| Americans complete mastery of ev- ery part of Seoul. The people have come out of dark holes into the sunlight today in their horribly ravaged but now peaceful city. Marines and army infantry, coms | pletely relaxed, wandered today | through the streets where a few | hours ago they were fighting a| savage battle, | The siege of Seoul lasted seven days, but it will be years before the scars of battle are erased. Al- most every block in the city has been smashed, at least in part. Yet, immediately after the end of the fighting, the Koreans have begun the task of clearing the debris and salvaging from the ruins whatever they can for a new start. the Great Lakes area. Official game ordered lights turned on whi (" Wirephoto. Smoke Brings Darkness Cleveland's lakefront stadium looked like this in September 24 from the top of Terminal Tower as windborne clouds of smoke from forest fires in northern Alberta, Canada, spread over BE ALIVE {Major General Missing Since July 20-Massacre at Prisoner Stockade VISION, Korea, ports to U.S. | Corps (CIC) officers held | glimmer of hope today that Maj Gen. William F. Dean may be alive. He has been officially listed as missing since July 20 when his doughboys last saw him fighting (Red tanks with a GI bazooka team (in Taejon. The CIC said three South Ko- reans who escaped from the prison stockade at Chongju before- it was Sept. 28—P—Re- | they overheard Communist offict | making plans last Saturday to move | the former 24th Division commander | from Chonju to Seoul. Seoul is about 70 miles north of iChong:u. { The CIC reports came as the 24th | i Division, now under command of| |Maj. Gen. John H. Church, retook { Taejon, scene of its most shattering mid-afterneon at the Detroit-Cleveland baseball ich are normally used only at night, 524 AUTOS ARE CHECKED IN TWO DAYS OF TESTS, .t 2.0 -Butetho say: thexs v 524 cars checked during the last jr_my Wants 300Thousand More Drafted two days of the safety drive which is ; being carried on by the Alaska High- | way Patrol and the Juneau City Po- | fice. In this period 108 warning! tickets were issued for faulty equip- | A 5 ment. All of the warning tickets| S@lective Service Quofas which had been issued on the first ! A day of the drive were returned, in- | WI" Be |n(l'eased An' dicating that these car owners had | complied with the safety require- | O'her 160,000 ments. { It is hoped by the members of the | WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 — (? — Highway Patrol and the local Po- |The Army made known today that lice Department that the public it will want to draft at least 330,000 :ill Ls;ve this tt‘inve t;t;eixt'h:;']hf:;' men to bring its forces up to desired earted cooperation rather - | strength. ing to evade this check by detouring ' praft quotas thus far have been to other streets. It is planned t0jssued only through November and continue the drive until every Carl!cover 170,000 men. The additional has been checked. {160,000 would be in quotas for later | months. £ PEARL PETERSON IS | Maj. Gen. Clovis Byers, Deputy BACK FROM SEATTLE | chief of Staff, gave the figure to _|the House Armed Services Commit- Fellow-workers will welcome Miss | tee gt a closed door session. Chair- Pear] Peterson Monday, when she |,y yinson (D-Ga) made it public. returns to her desk in the Federal| puers Jater told reporters it was Building. Miss Peterson is admin- | pejieveq the 330,000 could be secured | istrative assistant in the headquar-| s,y the age groups now subject to ters office of the U.S. Forest Service. | ine graft, those aged 19 through 25. She returned early this week from | Byers also said he beliaved some a trip to Seattle. i doctors and dentists would have to Ibe drafted. Vinson indicated that only 30,000 The w a S h i n g t On‘ men have been inducted into the Army since its expansion began after Merry - Go- Round | the outbreak of the Korean fight- !ing. He said the Army would want ComTT N W FEARBON 12 | 300,000 men in addition to the 30,000 already inducted. story caa| It was not made clear, however i ASHINGTON--The be told of the last Cabinet meet- { what date was covered by the 30,000 e Louis Johnson. It was notf Byers said the figures mgant a iengappy one. | contemplated total draft in the Johnson’s forthcoming departure, | but . President Truman, Iooking‘B ARI[ETI M AKES | “There’s a little item I want to| take up with all of you. It's the (AMPAIGN "AlK. matter of wire-tapping. J. Edgar 'l o "o 10 PROTECT NOME At this point, Attorney General “Mr. President,” he sald, *I ermw ‘ Bartlett (D-Alaska) says he doesn’t all about Mr. Hoover's wire-tapping. | Lo e nome to become “another iy, tape _wit,h my approval in| Addressing an audience here yes- cases involving sabotage, eSpionage | o qay Bartlett stressed what he 200: fape ‘ouf, 1 revlew'" gyary 'mezNome‘s Marks Air Force Base “fully gt themn jeveiy monti, | equipped and manned in view of the ing to make,” continued Truman.| .. . iime» “I just wanted to tell you folks | “It's better to keep it upen at an e soly ong in}‘;v a:hlllngton ;lh:b t‘:s |enemy after they are here,” he de- ping wires. He tells me that many| . .q He referred to the Japanese kno‘w fiiaed clonl"t “: " ;:-e:abi‘in! requiring an amphibious assault to don't think much of Wire-tabPing | g, ,qge the Japs from the island 5 i I think the habit of having some- = .., poq for a review of the three hen ouare AR 0 s(mm;“’le‘isay'mg “The pride and prestige of -_— (Continued on Page Four) ing attended by Secretary of De- | figure. Nothing much was said about | next six months of 330,000 men. straight' at Louey, said: Hoover has been doing a lot of | Howard McGrath interrupted. | NOME, Sept. 28—P—Delegate I know every tap he is making. He |\, and kidnapping. He has less than called the importance of keeping “That's not the point I was U¥- 1,0 ance of psychological war at that Hoover tells me he isn't the‘annual ooct" than 't Thash ots. the of you are I just want you 10| ,.,pation of Attuin World War II, and of anybody Wwho taps wires.| year later, in 1943, pue S 155 teiepiopa 4 Ao nme!yem’ old plan on Alaskan defenses, our nation is directly involved.” | defeat and the loss of its General. ¥ | Taejon is 95 miles south of Seoul, | the Korean capital. l Americans Tied Up-Shot Two wounded U.S. soldiers re- | ported that 40-odd American pris- | oners were tied up and shot at Tae- i | ) i i | IS REPORT WITH U.S. FIRST CAVALRY DI- | counter-intelligence | out 4| dynamited by fleeing Reds reported: | P b S v ON KOREA PATRO off Korea. It is one of the | jon recently. b ‘ The said they CIC officers said they did not| | know whether the three South Ko- | rean informants actually saw Gen- N NICA. Calif. Se | ' SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. Zs‘eral Dean before they escaped. {—\#—The 11-year old_marriage of | Horror at Chongju Sinbtey reckiving Apitabimatay e prisoners reported the Red e & ! killed and burned 18 Americans and third of the crooner’s estimated | ey 7g7 South Korean soldiers and slgqo.oog al‘yez:r mu’rn}ei‘ el | civilians before pulling out of| inatra let his wife have a sep-| oy onagy farate mammxfum-»’ decree by dcfault.f Chongju was recaptured Tuesday 1nSuperley Court | The Division spokesman said the A8y B’“,‘“”"‘- attostity far - WS Americans were reported slain Sept. | Sinatra, disclosed that under 1ern}sizzl four days before the American of a property scitlement, she Will | poceq the Communists from the receive one third of his gross income lcity, ! up to $150,000 annually and then a Other details of the American complicated sliding scale, based OB | oo oc o ononoiy were not av income tax tables, takes effect, lable, he sald. Bautzer said that the one time| bobby sox idol will earn close to a | million dollars this year. { Mrs. Sinatra has been receiving $2,750 a month support for hers_elr ists dynamited the stockade. The and their three children during| R, th ! other 600 were shot dead, the cap months of negotiations over eitured Red prisoners said. settlement. | i . { U. 8. army units advancin n. July, the SingEs manag‘er.;mmugh Seoul Wednesday enterec Mack Mlll:x‘r. announced that Sin- | two ‘schools. where they believed ilre DAC ncci R three-year con- | e 309 American prisoners wer tract with Columbia Broadcasting |y o1 yy found the buildings empts System under which he will be paid | ‘However, a list of 300 captured $3,000,000. Americans was found and sent t the U.S. Tenth Corps headquarte: Officers at Seoul were told th American prisoners had been tran L} [ ferred from there several —day earlier. The CIC reports indical® pEA(E plAN General Dean may have beel FROM PORTLAND | Lester Moore of Portland is guest at the Baranof Hotel FROM HAIN Mrs. Peggy D. Farmer of Hain among them. {is registered at the Baranof Holt Blown to Bits | The Red prisgners-of-war ¢ aid | 187 of the South Koreans killed were blown to bits when the Commun- NEW YORK, Sept. 28-~(P—Ameri- can sources today outlined a six- point peace formula for Korea call- ing for a unified country to be put back on its feet by the combined resources of the United Nations. The elements the United States considers essential for Korea's fu-| ture follow closely proposals ad- vanced by Britain and Canada. The | British are rushing work on a post- | war plan for the nation, American informants said the «United States has no desire for bases or special privileges in Korea” and wants the country to be free from the domination of any other nation. i It also desires Korea's admission | ‘o the U.N. and the organization of the country in such a way that it } “will pose on threats to its neigh- bors”—China and the Soviet Union. WEATHER RE?ORT Temperatures for 24-Fiour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 50; minimum, 44. At Airport—Maximum, 54 minimum, 42. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Partly cloudy tonight axn Friday. Low temperature i night near 42 and high Fr day near 56. e000000e000000c00e PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. tod City of Juneau—0.04 inche since Sept. 1 — 1091 inches; since July 1—21.97 inches. At Airport — Trace; since Sept. 1 — 7.32 inches; since July 1—19.32 inches. roocoovon-‘. Capt. J. D. Stone from Elmen- . . | . FROM ELMENDORF FIELD . . is registered at «he o dorf Airbase | Barancf Hotel. L ! wounded men | tescaped the massacre by playing I dead. | | T Bri The British destroyer Co: Shiny domes are in prominence in Port Arther, Tex, wh to the U. B. A, are holding their United Baldheads of Amcrica. (/f annual convention, Wirephoto. Far East ficet unils oper Korean War Af a Glanc (By Associat Fighting fronts ¢ says North Korean ait and no longer cxi fighting force. Tas Hadong captured prisoners of war re UN forces tighten fight to, clean out I ets of resistance. United Nations—OF Gen, MacArthur thority to chase re nto North Korea. Brit rush plan to unify Ko 1p UN-sponsored got dia, Unitedq St lorse plan. FROM CALIFORN Mr. and Mrs. V C Arcadia, Calif., a ue Baranof Hotel. UNION TO PARTY The Hotel and Restauran ployees will hold a party AFL Hall Friday night at ¢ for members and invited guests.” STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise from_Vancouver scheduled to arrive Saturday after- 00n or evening. Alaska scheduled to sail Seattle Saturday. Denali from westward dug to ar- rive sometime Monday evening. from resic Ty 000 to st ish and W t to get about0 day r $44,356,140, : L B HaSuwEY Tro Srazzaviile, i o | u i g iiaimfl William F. Dean. Intelligence said k here was hope that Dean—listed as Ops NN sof 150,000- An / ed ¢ e North Ror | plete rot nd ne [ nized force ppraisal wa: Iton H. Wa 1ants of the 1l 150,000~ n Co t ar ated to- hence thelr at- opped up de- ) ¥ an capi- wrmoréd Allied her carved up Communist th Korea. To Annihilaie said all h Reds i forces ‘south highway outheast & will be Any ibllity of 2t an- ed C uih was or- mmuni at from the remover day by the uns pushing ) from In- the' old Alligd . second r said, and 1 he, KMmedesmadite warnaa, I the fanatical enemy trength in local areas ild be considel at before the Com wiped out completely, Natlons f fresh in their stride. One Red- r another fell tp the fast- r Allied euver of envelopment. 01 Score Settled ejon, important rail and road h In Seoul-Pusan commur captured by the U.S. 2 The 24th had withdrawn 1 Taejon in the bitterest fight- ing of the war and' thus settled an ld score, Theé; was word of the Gen. able )-Wyo) « as “an in Division commander, M mi ; — might be alive. Three informants said they munist officers plan- wve Dean from a Chongju worean oo Neeld American POW Rescued EJE\'-L'L one American prisoner: ued when U.N. forces i Namwon and Hadong, vorth Koreaxs broke and fled s the 38th parallel, Allied anders awaited instructions ta > them acr the frontier to ure their destruction as an in- ; force and prepare for the ication of torn Korea under U.N, soul of f Nisel e)s - It tha to break i he had not yet ether allel but e: been eed across ted word from oon the pa the t ons Delegates 15 is that has the chase re- > North Korea and cit directive is neces- tion reliabi Point Plan for Korea iile, 'UN. Delegates, led by hed work on four- for weld the v torn intc dependent, vision, . Asians would be ke up the greater N. commission to super- r Korea. A source close an delegation said his ved plan sympa- X even becoine a rited States and contributions to comes before the committee to- the whi politieal SEATTLE GUEST DeBeck of Seattle is a Baranof Hotel. ret the FROM HAWEK INLET T, Conrad of Hawk Tnlet is stay- ‘11., at the Baranef Hotel.