The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 10, 1950, Page 1

TH VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,628 Heavy Vote WONSAN NOW STEWARDS INHANDS OF MAYDELAY UN SOLDIERS ~ FREIGHTER American Forces Making‘Union Members Refuse fo| Advances Despife Stub- | Sign on Susitna, Due born Red Resistance | to Sail Thursday | SEATTLE, Oct. 10—®—The dis- | ! pute of the Marine Cooks and Stew- South Korean troops today cap- |ards Union over the Coast Guard | tured the big industrial port city of | SeCurity “screening” program spread Wonsan on North Korea’s east|t0 @ Seattle-Alaska freighter yes- coast. | terday. The steward department re- | U.S. Army sources sald the South | fused to sign on the SS Susitna at | Koreans were mopping up Red [pie‘ 42. | snipers and the port would be fully [ The Susitna, an Alaska Steamship | secured within 24 hours, Wonsan is | Co. cargo ship, is scheduled to sail about 105 miles north of the 38th | about Thursday with freight for parallel. Its airfield, now in Allied | Sitka and Southwest Alaska ports. | hands, is about 95 miles east of | ’Charles Nichols, Marine Cooks Pyongyang, the Communist mpi_‘and Stewards port agent, said he | tal. {was “not too sure” about the dis- (By the Associated Press) ! for the drafting of 1,522 physicians, | | Army during November, December | American forces, pushing across | the parallel from captured Kaesong, met fierce Communist resistance on | the main road to Pyongyang. The First Cavalry Division was about . 80 miles south of the Red capital | but it was slowed to a yard by yard | advance by stubborn North Korean | defenses in the border area. | A spokesman at Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters said the Commumsw“ had prepared defenses to the depth of 25 miles but nevertheless Ameri- | can forces were making gains. The First Cavalry was fighting on | a 25 mile front. American tanks, artillery and planes blasted a hole in the defense network and Infantry | reached Sinchon, a highway village about 2% miles north of the 38th | parallel. Another First Cavalry unit drove ahead on a northwest tangent | from Kaesong and a third lorce: reached Panbu, 15 miles to the| northeast. South Korean troops moving up the center of the peninsula met in- | creasingly strong Communist oppo- sition. At least two Red divisions | have been regrouped here and Mac- | Arthur’s headquarters said the enemy had concentrated his main force in this central front, five miles north of the parallel. LA R P | FROM SEATTLE Sgt. P. W. Phister, with the Alaska Communications Service ! from Seattle, is registered at the Juneau Hotel. FROM SEATTLE K. B. Hanna of Seattle is stop-| ping at the Baranof Hotel. The W;Mgton Merry - Go - Round (Copyright, 1850, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON | (Editor’s Note — The Senate | crime committee has given num- | erous hints that American crime | was dominated by the Mafia. Fol- lowing up these hints, Drew Pear- son has dug into this myster- ious organization and in this and other columns will bring to light the names of the Mafia leaders who rule the criminal world of the United States.) ASHINGTON—A total of 50' men control most of the big rackets in the United States. All are mem- bers of the mysterious Mafia, and all but one are either Italian-born or of Italo-American descent. Various statements have been given by the Kefauver Crime Com- mittee regarding the power of zhe‘ Mafia, but few people realize its| tremendous power or that its head, | Lucky Luciano, directs its affairs| from Italy, whither he was deport- | ed when Governor Dewey, for some | strange reason, released him from | Sing Sing during the war. The history of these strange un- | derground rulers goes back to the | 18th century when the Mafia was organized in Sicily to oppose the tyranny of the Bourbons. A similar secret society, called the Camorra, mushrocmed in| Naples for the same purpose, and expatriates from both emigrated to America. They reorganized principally in New York, but spread | out across the country, at first preying chiefly upon wealthy Ital- jans. The Camorra became known as the “Black Hand” and the Mafia | continued under its Sicilian name. Eventually the two organizations became identical. Because the Mafia started out bootlegging and graduatéd to dope- | steward | The Denali is scheduled | who turns them over to the Coast | pute on the Susitna. Another union official was handling that ship, he said. But, Nichols added, the re-| fusal may have been because stew- ard members did not want to sign on until the day before the ship sailed. This would enable them to escape payment of Alaska taxes on| voyage pay, he said. i Meanwhile, Seattle-Alaska pas—‘ senger service has been knocked out by the controversy. The SS Baranof, which sailed Friday, is enroute to Alaska as a straight cargo ship. All passenger reservations were can- celled by the company when the Department failed to guarantee full compliance with pro- visions of the security program. The SS Denali, another Alaska Steamship Co. passenger ship, also will be operated as a freighter un- less the union gives assurance its members will sign articles under the screening program and replace any members rejected as “bad se- curity risks” the company warned. | to sail from Seattle Friday. The screening procedure, de- signed to keep Communists and sub- versives off U.S. merchant ships seiling to war and defense zones, | calls for seamen’s papers to be turned over to the Commissioner | Guard security officers for exami- nation at the time of signing on. (There is an Alaska tax on all wages earned in the Territory, which includes wages of seamen in Alaska waters. The tax must be withheld from the time the ship’s articles are signed for each voyage until the articles are terminated at the end of | the trip.) STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Seattle with freight | only, in port at 3 p.m. today, west- i bound. Princess Louise from Vancouver | due at 8 tonight and will dock at City Wharf. Alaska from west in port at 3 p.m. today sailing south at 7 o’clock this evening. Freighter Palisana southbound scheduled to arrive at 8 tonight. WSCS MEETS TOMORROW The WSCS of the Methodist Church will meet Wednesday after- noon at 1:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Arnold Larsen, 222 Seventh street. Mrs. Larsen will begin the study “Near East Panorama.” S AT OLDROYD HERE Lorin T. Oldroyd of Fairbanks is | stopping at the Juneau Hotel. WEATHER RE?ORT Temperatures for 24-Fiour Period ending 6:20 o'clock th's morning In Juneau—Maximum, 50; minimum, 42. At Airport—Maximum, 50; minimum, 40. FORECA T (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with light showers tonight and Wed- nesday. Lowest temperature tonight about 40 degrees. Highest Wednesday near 50. PRECIPITATION o @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ city of Juneau—0.10 inches; e since October 1—2.26 inches; since July 1—24.33 inches. At Airport — 0.03 inches; since October 1—0.72 inches; since July 1—20.06 inches. | sequence” of the lessons learned in | free General Assembly whenever the 922 Doclors, 500 Dentists To Be (alled WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—(#—The | Defense Department called today dentists and veterinarians for the | and January, The total includes 922 physicians, | 50 dentists and 100 veterinarians. The department acted only four | days after President Truman set in motion the machinery for the drafting of medical men. The first registration date is Oct. 16, The Department’s announcement caid the Navy and the Air Force have indicated that they do not presently plan to make similar re- quests to selective service for the induction of the physicians and others. RUSS STAND PUZZLES UN | DIPLOMATS Vishinsky’s Accepfance of | Peace Plan Is Received with Grain of Salt LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 10—®— Western diplomats were skeptical teday of Russia’s surprise accept- ance of some parts of U.S. Secre- tary of State Dean Acheson’s four- point anti-veto peace plan. They speculated on the Soviet Union’s motives. Was it one of Russia’s startling | diplomatic shifts, they asked? Or was the tentative embrace which | Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky gave the plan in the 60- nation Political Committee intended as the kiss of death? Puzzled diplomats were waiting for a major Vishinsky policy speech, which may come today, to clarify the situation. The plan itself, called “United Action for Peace,” is a formaliza- tion of Acheson’s Sept. 20 pro- posals, which the State Depart- ment’s Republican adviser John Foster Dulles called the “logical Korea. Its main points are: Peace Plans 1. Emergency sessions of the veto- Security Council, which has the primary responsibility for preserv- ing peace, is hamstrung by a veto. 2. Peace patrols of observers to report to the Assembly on acts of | aggression. 3. Designation by U.N. members of specific units of their armed forces to be placed at the disposal of the UN. in times of crisis. 4. Establishment of a commission to report to the Security Council and General Assembly next year on specific means which might be used to enforce peace. Co-sponsors with the U.S. are Canada, France the Philippines, Turkey, Britain and Uruguay. Soviet Partial Approval The plan was introduced to the Political Committee yesterday by Dulles, who left the door open for possible Soviet participation. He said: “The representatives of the Soviet Union profess to believe that the United States now has aggressive and war-like intentions which frighten them. If they really believe that, then they will want the pro- tection that these proposals will afford.” Vishinsky immediately took the floor on a point of order and astounded delegates by declaring Russia favored some of the points in the sweeping program. He added, however, that there would have to be many amendments and altera- | tions. Most observers had expected out- ‘right, Soviet opposition. HOWARD LYNG HERE Howard Lyng of Nome, National Committeeman of the Democratic party, is among the Alaskan poli- ticians in Juneau for the Territorial election. He is staying at the Bara- “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA. EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e PRESIDENT, MacARTHUR WILL MEET Conferencefi eported ""Somewhere on Pacific” WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — ( — | President Truman will ‘meet with Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the Pa- cific this coming weekend. ‘White House sources said arrange- ments have just been completed for | a conference of the President and the commander of the United Na- tions forces. | They said it will be held “some- where in the Pacific” but did not | disclose whether it will be aboard a | Navy ship or at an island. Details for the meeting have not been completed, these sources said. | When details are complete, the | White House will have an announce= ment,. It was learned the President will | go directly to the rendezvous from | St. Louis where he is flying to- morrow to witness the 1nstnllnu.on’, of his sister, Miss Mary Jane Tru- man, as Worthy Grand Matron - of the order of the Eastern Star. PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT | WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — P — | President Truman announced today he will meet this weekend with Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific to discuss “the final phase of United Nations action in Korea.” Mr. Truman said in a statement that he will also discuss with Mac- Arthur “other matters within HhiS responsibility.” He did not say what these were. | Mr. Truman’s statement did not say where he would meet with the United Nations commander. The White House withheld an an- nouncement on the place of the! meeting. But it was presumed to be | somewhere west of Hawaii. Mr. Truman will take off from | St. Louis Thursday in the White House plane, the “Independence” for Hawaii, the first stop on a trip expected to last about a week. He is going to St. Louis tomorrow to witness the installation of his| sister, Miss Mary Jane Truman, as | Worthy Grand Matron of the Order | of the Eastern Star. | Accompanying the President to| the meeting with MacArthur will| be Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of | the Joint Chiefs of Staff; W. Av-;| erell Harriman, special assistant to | the President on foreign affairs; Philip C. Jessup, State Department | roving Ambassador-at-Large, and Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. Sec- retary of the Army Pace may also | make the trip. Mr. Truman will leave St. Louis | at 6 pm. (EST) Thursday for Fair- field-Suisun Air Force base in Cali- | fornia. i Arriving there at 10 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time) Thursday, he will leave two hours later for Hickam | Air Force base in Honolulu. The White House refused to say | the ultimate place of meeting or give any other details except to say Mr. Truman will return to Wash- ington Wednesday, Oct. 13. Mr. Truman, in his statement, said that in the final phase of UN action MacArthur’s command “will be working' closely with the United | Nations Commission which has just been created by the General Assem- bly and given heavy responsibilities for the establishment of a unified, independent, and Democratic Ko-| rea.” | He added: “We must proceed rapidly with| out part in the organization of the | United Nations relief and recon-| struction program in order to ive | the Korean people a chance to live | in peace.” | With Congress in recess, there W little of the formal comment [10! Ppolitical figures that usually follo¥ major Presidential announce and actions. However, Chairman Guy Gabricl- | son of the Republican National Committee summed up his views o8 | the development with three words: “It’s about time.” Republicans in Congress have| been urging for months that Mec- | Arthur be called home for const Planned During Weekend| | ¥ Lower big shaded arrows bious drive from Inchon landing ““4P Wirephoto Map. mark giant pincer No. 1 formed by amphi- ' and push from Pusan beachhead. ' That crushed Red Koreans south of the 38th parallel. Upper big broken arrows mark possible giant pincer No. 2 formed by potential pushes from 175,000-man U. N. force massing in Seoul area and from South Korean divisions which have penetrated to just south of Won- san. Solid black arrows mark current South Korean drives into ‘Wonsen area and First Cavalry’s capture of Kaesong north of Seoul. Airfield N MOSCOW, Oct. 10—(M—Russia charged today that two American fighter planes strafed and damaged a Soviet airfield near the key Si- berian seaport of Vladivostok last Sunday. (In Tokyo, an official U.S. Air Force spokesman said he is “unable to comment at this time” on the HALF BILLION IS CUT FROM NEW BUDGET WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — ® — The Budget Bureau announced to- day a $580,271,335 cut in non-defense appropriations — $30,271,335 ~more than the minimum cut Congress ordered after voting the funds. The Bureau’s reductions, for the fiscal year ending next June 30, were approved by President Tru- man. They were spread over 31 agencies in the Executive Branch which shared in the $35554,600,425 single-package appropriations act to which the cuts applied. That act made up a large part of the nearly $54,000,000,000 Congress appropriated this year before re- cessing until Nov. 27. The biggest slash of all whacked $75,000,000, or half, off the $150,- 000,000 total voted by Congress for for hospital construction. Other cuts of $50,000,000 or more: Army Engineers civil activities, | European Recovery Program (Mar- shall Plan), and relief in occupied ts |areas abroad, $50,000,000 each. The Bureau said however, the cuts will not require stopping power project work already contracted for by the Army Engineers and will not cause any halt or slowdown in the Interior Department’s current power projects. FLORIDA GIRL HERE tation on Far East policy and pa ticularly to give his views to Sen- ate and House Committees CC cerned with defense and for¢l (Continued on Page Four) nof Hotel. laflulrs. Laura Brach, Pan American Air- ways employee from Miami Springs, Florida, is in Juneau on a vacation the Federal Security Agency’s grants Russia Claims American Fighter Planes Strafed ear V_Iadivoslok Russian assertion.) A Russian protest note was pro- ferred to U.S. Minister-Counsellor Walworth Barbour last night by Soviet Deputy Minister Andrei Gromyko. The note placed the in- | cident 62 miles north of the Soviet- Korean border. 1 It demanded “strict punishment” ,Ior the “responsible personnel” | and American assurances against isuch incidents in the future. ' The note said two F-80 Shooting Star jets machinegunned an airfield in the Sukhaya Rechka area at 4:17 p.m. (local time) Sunday. Sukhaya Rechka is across Novik Bay from Vladivostok and about 18 miles southwest of that important Si- berian rail and shipping terminus. No Casualties “As a result of the firing damage was inflicted on airdrome equip- ment,” the note declared. It made no mention of casualties. Barbour declined to accept the | note on the grounds the protest was | a matter for the United Nations to handle. Gromyko disagreed, arguing that since the note dealt with the firing by American planes on a Soviet in- the two governments involved. The note subsequently was sent by the Russians to the US. Em- bassy. U.S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk, who had been in bed with a cold, went there early this morning |to inform the State Department of the Soviet communication. Moscow Prints Report It was published in Moscow papers without editorial comment. “In connection with these pro- vocative actions of the American Air Force, expressed in a gross violation of the U.S.SR. state frontier, . . and in firing on a Soviet airdrome, the Soviet government launches a resolute protest with the govern- ment of the United States,” the note said. In refusing to accept the note, Barbour took the same stand as was | taken by the United States last Sep- !',ember, when Russia protested the | downing of a Soviet plane by Amer- |ican aircraft off Korea. That note was never accepted by the United States, and Russia sub- mitted it to the United Nations for stallation, it was the sole concern of | ALASKANS BALLOTING ATPOLLS 'Sixty-Eight Can didates Seek Thirty-Five Offices | in Territorial Election | Alaskans are going to the polls today, in little precincts and big precincts from Hyder to Point Bar- row. From a total of 68 candidates they will select a Delegate to Con- gress for a two-year term; a Terri- torial Treasurer for a four-year term; a Commissioner of Labor for a four-year term; eight Senat- ors for four-year terms; and 24 Re. presentatives for two-year terms. The following are the candidates for _ofllce, with their party affil- iations: Territorial Offices Delegate to Congress: E. L. Bart. lett (D); Almer J. Peterson, (R). den (D), unopposed. Commissioner of Labtor: Henry A. Benson (R); Ross E. Kimball (D). First Division Senate: Elton E. Engstrom (R); James Nolan (D); Frank Peratro- vich (D). House: Doris M. Barnes (R); Ralph A. Bartholomew (R); Rob- ert E. Coughlin (D); Amelia A. Gundersen (D); R. T. Harris (D); Waino E. Hendrickson (R); An- drew Hope (D); Marcus F. Jensen (D); Frank G. Johnson (R); Ed Locken (R); James S. MacKinnon (R); M. L. MacSpadden (R); Ver- non M. Mnt.?n.lfe (D); Clyde O. Pet- erson (R); W. O. Smith "(D)! B. D. Stewart (D). Second Division Senate: Willlam E. Beltz (D); Percy Ipalook (R); Charles D. Jones (R); Charles A. O'Leary (D). House: Rose Bronson (R); Frank A. Degnan (D); Alex T. Edman (D); W. W. Laws (R); George P. Madsen (D); Peter L Reader (R); Nels Swanberg, Jr., (R); James K. Wells (D). Third Division Senate: Gunnard M. Engebreth (R); Z. J. Loussac (D); Vietor C. Rivers (D); Gerrit Snider (R). House: Chester C. Carlson (D); Will H. Chase (R); Jack D. Con. right (D); Willlam A. Egan (D); Victor V. Gill (R); John F. Gor- such (R); Wendell P. Kay (D); Stanley J. McCutcheon (D); Lee L. McKinley (R); Archie P. McLane (R); Thorwald Osbo (R); C .A Pollard (D); Jack F. Scavenius (D); M. D, Snodgrass (R). FOURTH DIVISION Senate: A, F. Coble (R); Jess D. Lander (D); W. L. Lhamon (R); Warren ‘A, Taylor (D). House: Frank Angerman (D); | Essie R. Dale (D); Glen D. Frank- lin (D); George W, Gasser (R); { Thomas A. Jones (D); L. F. Joy | (R); Robert S. McCombe (D); | George J. Miscovich (R); Mike 1 stepovich (R); Alden L. Wilbur (R). TERRITORIAL PREDICTION MADE BY HOWARD LYNG | Senator Howard Lyng, Nome mining man, and Democratic Na- tional Committeeman, predicts that, due to the closeness of the battle in each of the four divisions, there will be an unusually large vote. Senator Lyng arrived yesterday after making public speeches and radio talks in Anchorage and Fair- banks on behalf of the Democratic Party. He gave these legislative election forecasts to The Empire this after- | noon: ‘E 2nd Division—8plit right down the {middle in both Senate and House, | with a possible chance that the ;Demos take three out of four places {in the House. 3rd Division — Demos take both | Senate seats and five out of seven in | the House. 4th Division—One and one in the | Senate; three out of five seats in| | the House can go' either way. 1st Division — Demos take both Senate seats; House seats equally 1dlvmed, four and four. BOY FOR NORDLINGS A boy, 8 pounds and 4 ounces, was born to Mrs. Charles Nordling yesterday evening at. 7:45 at St. | Ann’s hospital here. i { FROM FAIRBANKS | Cornellus P. Coughlin of Fair-| trip. She is stopping at the Baranof consideration only, not for action It banks is staying at the Baranof | Hotel, has remained shelved so' far. | Hotel. d Territorial Treasurer: Henry Ro- Being Cast in Juneau Election Gianl Pincer No. 2 in Korea POLLS STAY OPEN UNTIL 8P.M. TODAY Returns Expected fo Be De- layed Because of Late Closing Hour With the weather “not bad,” and with unusual interest in the pres. ent election, large numbers of Ju- neau voters are going to the polls in the city’s three precincts today. An unusually heavy vote was fore- cast by local observers, Both parties were busy getting out the voters today. The Repub- licans had a sound truck traveling Juneau streets during the day, aug- mented by radio advertising. Dem- ocrats were apparently depending upon word-of-mouth to get out their vote. At 3 pm. today the total vote at the Juneau precincts was: Precinct No. 1 328 Precinct No. 2 408 Precinct No. 3 .. . 206 Total 942 Two years ago, when the fish trap referendum was instrumental in turning out a huge vote, the 3 p.m. count in Juneau showed 303, 323 and 332 respectively for the three precincts, a total of 958. Voting_ will continue until 8 o'~ clock tonight. This is one hour longer than in previous general elections. RETURNS LATE Although the Empire will receive election bulletins from all parts of the Territory. as. usual, it is ex- pected that they” will be late comi~ ing in, partly because of the later closing of the polls. It is expected that the first bulletins will not be received here until around midnight, if then. Juneau precinets are not ex- pected to have complete totals until early tomorrow morning. KETCHIKAN PACKER PAYS $1,000 FINE FOR ILLEGAL FISHING An unusual violation was prose- cuted yesterday in the Ketchikan U. 8. Commissioner’s court, in which a packer was charged with fishing. Nels Larsen, captain of the pack- er Heather Kay, pleaded guilty on three counts: (1) Fishing during a closed season; (2) fishing within 500 yards of a creek mouth and (3) commercial fishing with gillnet. The skipper was fined $1,000, which he paid. Word of the case was received here by Dan H. Ralston, Law En- forcement Supervisor of the Fish and Wildlife Service. SPECIALIST GIVES INSTRUCTION IN POLIO NURSING Al graduate nurses are urged by the local Red Cross chapter to attend a series of lectures and demonstrations on poliomyelitis nursing to be given this week by a visiting specialist. Miss Helen Anderson, instructor of orthopedic nursing at the Uni- versity of Washington, has been sent by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to conduct the classes. Instwuction will be tomorrow from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., and from 7 to 9 pm., and Thursday morn- ing from 9:30 to 11:30 o'clock. Health Department officials and local doctors urge all nurses to take advantage of this opportunity. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 10 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 102%, Anaconda 35, Curtiss-Wright 9%, International Harvester 31%, Kennecott 64%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 25%, U. 8. Steel 39%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,870,000 shares, Averages today are as follows: in- :;Jstl‘llls 227.60, rails 68.54, utilities .46, —