The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 29, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXVI,, NO. 11,670 Mauled UN Tro WU SPURNS | SEAT IN U.N. | - SEC. COUNCIL | | UN. LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 29— (M—The Chinese Communist dele- gation spurned a place at the UN.! Security Council's table today—in protest against the inclusion of the | Korean question on the Council’s| agenda. | President Ales Bebler of Yugo- _slavia invited the Chinese Reds to take their place at the horseshoe- shaped table when the council con- vened. Peiping’s spokesman, Wu Hsiu-Chuan, remained in his place at the side of the room. Other members of the Chinese Red dele- gation remained with him. | The agenda item, as worded, | could place Wu in the position of a defendant faced with American charges of Chinese Communist ag- gression in Korea. Wu, in his first speech in the U.N. yesterday, ob-| jected to the Korean item and said | he would not discuss the American | accusation. He also made it clear the Chinese Reds had no intention | of withdrawing their troops from | the Korean warfront. | Wu's unyielding attitude has caused foreboding in U.N. circles on the chances of localizing the Ko-| rean fighting. This feeling prevailed | even among delegations that urged bringing the Chinese Reds to Lake Success in the hope of a con-| ciliatory agreement could be worked out. ACHESON ON AIR TONIGHT | | { i | WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — (® — Secretary of State Acheson will| speak to the nation tonight at 6| pam., EST, on the crisis in Korea. | The State Department announced | that the Secretary’s 30-minute ad-| dress will be broadcast by the Mu- | tual, ABC and CBS networks. Ache- ‘ son will speak from his office in the ! State Department. MOTHERS! REMINDER; | CHILD HEALTH CONFERENCE | Mothers are reminded that the weekly Child Health and Well Baby ' Conferences will be resumed this Thursday. All mothers who wish to come and bring their child- ren should phone for an appoint- | ment if they have not done so. Con- ference hours are from 1:00 p.m. | to 3:30 p.m. at the Juneau Public Health Center, 318 Main St., phone number 218. The Washington Merry - Go - Round Copyright. 1950, by Bell Synaicate, Inc.» By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—Communist ad- vances in French Indo-China, Tibet | &nd Asia generally are belatedly waking up some of our foreign- policy planners to what may be another Pearl Harbor. In brief, the United States, af- ter suffering the worst economic disaster in history when the Japs captured Singapore, may find our rubber, tin, quinine and other trop- ical products cut off again. For four years the American peo- ! ple weré forced to walk as a re- sult of the rubber and tire shortage. Tin cans were also curtailed; while millions of dollars were spent plant- ing cinchona or quinine trees m Latin America. Now, though we are much better prepared regarding synthetic rubber, part of this may happen all over again. Chief lesson to be drawn from the Communist threat to our ec- oncmic lifeline -in Asia is the man- ner in which we have neglected our own hest neighbors right next door in Latin America. While a few State Department officials under live-wire Assistant Secretary Ed- ward Miller have been pushing Latin-American friendship, actually much of our financial help to Eu- ropean cartels has hurt Latin Am- erica. The American public has largely forgotten the fact that when Col- umktus arrived in America he was (Continued on Page Four) | defense and | workers. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1950 ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Risk Capital Advocated For Alaska PNTA Urgesiemption on Taxes - Communism Is Denounced SEATTLE, Nov. 20—(®—A resolu- | tion to stimulate Alaska develop- | ment by encouraging risk capital was adopted yesterday by the Gen- eral Conference of the Pacific Northwest Trade Association. The resolution urged that new industries in the territory be ex- | empted from federal income taxes for 25 years. Should a firm's investment be amortized in less than 25 years, the firm would have to begin pay- ing income taxes. A British Columbia Senator’s bit- ter denunciation of Communism and socialism closed the meeting. ©en. J. W, De B. Farris told the 200 delegates he will “have no scruples against denying Commun- ists that political freedom which is the basis of Democracy.” “No organization or individugl whi policy is to destroy free- dom has any right to demand that freedom, He described soci Communists.” The Canadian’s scathing attack came after the delegates had wound lists as “tadpole {up official business with the ad- option cf 14 resolutions. They al- <o asked the continuation of ap-| propriations for Alaska develop- ment in an orderly manner until settlement programs are complete. WAGE BOOST | IS MADE BY STEEL CORP. PITTSBURGH, Nov. 20—(®—The {mammoth United States Steel Cor- poration today made an undisclosed wage offer to the CIO United Steel- Union President Philip Murray promptly called his top policy makers together to consider the proposal. The log jam in the current steel negotiations broke suddenly with Murray reporting he was calling both the USW Executive Board and the wage-policy committee into ses- sion. “Big Steel” then confirmed it had jmade an offer. U.S. Steel officials would not elaborate on the con- firmation and refused to discuss the nature of the offer. The only comment available from U.S. Steel was this terse sentence from an official spokesman: “We have made an offer which is under consideration by the union.” Negotfations on the unian’s un- disclosed pay demand have been in progress between “Big Steel” and the union since early last month, neither side has ever made any re- port of progress. WHAT RAISE IS NEW YORK, Nov. 29—®—United States Steel Corporation will in- crease wages and benefits about 18 cents an hour and raise prices an| average of $6 a ton, the Iron Age predicted today. The national metal working| weekly said the company will settle ! this week with the steelworkers union for an average increase of around 16 cents an hour and fringe concessions adding about two cents an hour more to the average wage cost. OIL BARGE DRIFTING NORTH OF KODIAK Attempts to retrieve the Arctic Chief, an oil barge standing on end and drifting south of Marmot Is- land, have been unsuccessful, U. S. Coast Guard headquarters reported here today. X The 45-foot barge owned by the Kotzebue Oil Sales is carrying 222,- | 0 gallons of herring oil and 178,- 050 gallons of scluble fish oil. It was lost by the tug, John Michael Sunday in heavy seas. The Coast Guard cutter, Bittersweet is stand- | ing by. ESC MEET OPENS; STUDY ABUSES OF JOBLESS BENEFITS Policing of unemployment com- | pensation requests to avoid abuses that may be depleting the unem- ployment fund and the matter of seasonality of occupations in Al- aska—also considered in the light of depleting the Unemployment fund—were discussed at the open- ing session of the meeting of the Employment Security Commission in the Senate Chamber of the Fed. eral Building Tuesday afternoon. With Ralph Rivers, chairman and member of the commission from the Fourth Division, presiding, and George Vaara, member from the Third Division and Robelff E. Sheldon, director, present, repre- sentatives of both labor and man- agement spoke on the subjects be- fore the commission—with an evi- dent desire for cooperation. Anthony Zorich, member of theI Commission from Ketchikan, is un- | able to attend the meetings. Roy B. Erling, manager of the Fairbanks Exploration division of | the United States Smelting and| Refining Company, was first speak- er in the discussion of abuses of the Unemployment benefits, As possible amendments to the present law, he suggested (1) that “termination slips” be presented to each employee at the time he left his job to show the reason for termination and that (2) such termination slips * be attached to every application for benefits. Mr. Erling advocated that penal- | ties for abuses of the law be es-| tablished by statute, and not be! left to the discretion of the direc- | tor—this for the protection of the[ director. | Reduce Benefits The mining man further urged that benefits be reduced for men who quit jobs or are.discharged for | | i provisions should be made to cover‘ | Lecause his job is made unbearable he is physically incapabkle of per- cause of abusive treatment by a| should be provided for by amend-| “Provisions should be made toj| out of work through no fault of| ing Industry. “But I do not believe | der certain condition, a percentage abuses.” the fund,” Mr. Anderson concluded. tion® of Labor, asked that in pro- ployed in Alaska should not be! “However, we are not in favor of | work when available—but that con- No Chiseling Labor Council and Building Trades | work after making initial claim | chiselers either,” Mr. Gilmore said. | | the regional Federal Secruity of-| | upon by Mr. Sheldon to:speak be- | Because abuses ofsthe law dis. | cause and, in order to prevent| abuses by employer and employee.! | these three types of cases: | 1. The employee whe might quit| by action of a superior. 2. The man who quits because | forming the work and 3. The employee who quits be-| | superior. | “These types of terminauoni ment with protective clauses,” Mr. | Erling said. protect the Unemployment Com- ! pensation Fund for those who are their own,” said Al Anderson, ex- ecutive secretary of the Alaska Min- | people should indiscriminately leave | employment to take a holiday. Un- of the benefits allowed by law should be denied as a penalty for “It should be the desire of both labor and management to protect For labor, Ervin Hill, president| of the Alaska Territorial Federa-| pounding penalties for abuses of use | of the fund, that the 6,000 unem- | discriminated against because of the few “professional bums.” employees chiseling,” Mr. Hill said. | “I think employees should accept| sideration should be given to suit- able and unsuitable employment.” Suggesticn was made by Ward\ Gilmore of the Fairbanks Central that workers should report to their | unions that they are available for| for unemployment beneft. { “We don’t want our people to be| “We wish to be helpful.” Present as a representative of | fice in San Francisco was Mrs. {Mary Hutchinson who was called | cause “of her familiarity with the; restrictions of the law.” credit the whole security sys- tem, Mrs. Hutchinson said she con- | (Continued on Page Twc) FIRE ALARM 2-1 A 2-1 alarm at 3:05 this after- {noon called the Juneau Fire De- | partment out to 53 in the Village home of Mrs. Elsie Johnson. Dam- age was reported slight. | Senator Ellender to extinguish a roof fire at the! Ellender fo - Filibuster Statehood WASHINGTON, Nov. 29— (@ — (D-La) today tossed the threat of a full-scale iilibuster at the Alaskan statehood bill. He told reperters he plans a “filibuster speech” next week if Senate advocates win a fight to| bring up the bill for Senate action. | Southern Democrats, with strong | Republican backing, are trying to | klock the legislation Ellender is an old hand at fili- busters, the device of slowing ac- tion on legislation by talking end- lessly. He once spoke for five days against an anti-lynching bill. President Wants Passage | President Truman, meantime, was | reported to be insisting on immed- iate passage of the Alaskan measure as well as the companion bill to| grant statehood to Hawail, i Delegate Bartlett of Alaska talk- ed with the President at the White House and quoted him later as say- | ing he could not see why anyone would want to try to stop the bills for selfish reasons. McClellan Opposed Senator McClellan (D-Ark) led the Senate debate today in oppo- sition to the motion to bring up the Alaska .bill. He said he would | speak most of the day. McClellan based most of his op- | position to Alaskan statehood on | grounds that the territory is not yet sufficiently developed to un- dertake the responsibilities of a | state. He said: Says Alaska Not Ready “Alaska has potentialities and it is highly probably that in the course of time—and I would like | to see that time hastened—that Alaska will become sufficiently de- | veloped, sufficiently populated, suf- | ficiently strong financially that she ; can support statehood adequately.” He also told the Senate "Thei nation at this hour is at war” and | that “no one in this government today” knows for sure whether it is the beginning of World War IIL | Wants Defense Action ! The Senate, therefore, he said, | should not be taking up its time with the statehood “can contribute nothing” nation’s strength. Instead, he urged dropping the statehood issue and devoting full attention to the defense effort. BETHEL NAT. GUARD UNIT AIDS IN RECENT DISASTER AT BETHEL Delayed reports just received m.E dicate that the Bethel National| i | | issue whica | to the bers of that community in giving | Native Service Hospital was des- | troyed by fire November 20. In tixe| face of bitter cold, the guard| members worked until after mid-| night providing clothing, sleeping | bags, blankets and cots to pa-| tients and employees who were left homeless by the fire. | Families in the community pre- | pared food which the guard unit delivered to patients in temporary ! quarters. The Bethel families also | opened their homes for the doctors and nurses. After the fire, 14 mem- | bers of the unit volunteered to help | consturct a new water system for the former nurses’ home which is| being converted into a temporar: emergency hospital. Headquarters of the Alaska Na- tional Guard, Juneau, stated that the Alaska National Guard is a community organization and ex- pects to serve its community as well as the nation. This is particularly true in small isolated communities such as Bethel where little if any immediate outside assistance can be expected, it was further stated In furtherance of this policy, the Bethel guard unit has organized a volunteer fire department Bethel is located 40 miles from the mouth of the Kuskokwim R which empties into the Bering Sea During the winter travel is b sible only by airplane or dog ¢ The National Guard unit th cludes a number of Eskimos o its ranks. DR. MOORE H Dr. Philip Moore of Si i Juneau enroute to Fairbank |hold a polio clinic, He is sto} at the Baranof Hotel. opsin Retreaton Korea STATEHOOD FILIBUSTER THREATENS TRUMAN'S SHORT TERM PROGRAM WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — B — Southern Democrats, with strong Repubulican backing, waged an all- out fight in the Senate today to block the bill to grant statehood to Alaska. President Truman has asked the short session of Congress to pass the bill and a companion Hawaiian measure, both passed by the House. One Southerner, asking not to be named, told a reporter the dispute might endanger Mr. Truman’s en- tire program for the session. The President has asked for rent control legislation and big defense appro- priations, among other things, be- fore this Congress expires Jan. 3. Filib :ster Effort Says Lucas Senator Lucas (D-III), Democratic Floor Leader, called the fight a fili- bustering effort to talk the Alaska statehood bill to death. He voiced concern over its apparent propor- tions. The anonymous Southern spokes- man suggested that he saw little point in Senate committes working to draft rent control and other ad- ministration measures if adminis- tration forces planned to let state- hood become a long drawn fight. The Dixie leadership, however, gave no hint it might be thinking of offering to trade its support of administration bills for abandon- ment of the statehood measure. Scutherners Object to Statehood Southern Senators long have ob- | jected to granting statehood to Alaska and Hawaii for a variety of ressons—among them a belief that any Senators elected by the new states would be likely to link up with northern supporters of civil rights bills. To Lucas and many others the fight looked and sounded like the (0ST OF LIVING SOARING Government Issues Index Showing New All-Time High-Wage Increase WASHINGTON, Nov. 29e—(P—The government’s cost of living index today rose to a new all-time high. Guard unit joined with other mem- | Nearly o million workers whose | i 7 | wage contracts are tied to the rise | relief assistance when the Alaskd| anq fall of the index Will receive |own bosses,” that their elections are a pay hike of two to three cents an hour. The new index, covering prices as of October 15, was 174.8 percent of the 1935-39 base period, an increase | of 0.6 percent since Sept. 15. It was 0.2 percent higher than the previous peak of 1745 in Aug- ust and September, 1948. Geneal Motors Corp, first of the major auto manufacturers to adopt the cost of living formula for its workers, announced immediately 357,000 hourly-rated workers will | receive an additional three cents an hour. The boost will be effective | with the first pay period beginning after Dec. 1. Approximately 80,000 GM salar- ied workers will receive an addi- tional $15 as their allowance for the period between Dec. 1 and next March 1, to be paid at the clos® of the quarter next March. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 29 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 214, American Can 96%, American Tel. and Tel. 150%, Anaconda 35%, Douglas Aircraft 83%, General Electric 47'i, Gen- eral Motors 45%, Goodyear 53%, . Kennecott 68%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 27%, Standard Oil of California 78 Twentieth Century Fox 21, U. S Steel 39, Pound $2.80'%, Canadian Exchange 95.87%. Sales today were 2,760,000 :hares Averages today are as follovs: in- dustrials 226.42, rails 67.90, utilitic 39.62. start of a filibuster—the ancient device of dragging out debate until the opposition yields. A Lot of Debate Due But Senator Russell (D-Ga), quarterbacking a drive to block the measure, insisted “there is no or- ganized filibuster.” He conceded, however, that his forces planned “a lot of debate” before even this first round of the battle ends. At issue is whether to sidetrack pending legislation and let first the Alaskan and then the Hawalian statehood bills come up for debate and a vote. Both bills will die auto- matically if they are not passed by Jan. 3. Senators generally take it for granted that the fate of the Alaska statehood bill is apt to be the fate also of the Hawaii measure. Lucas Asks Right of Way Lucas, who made the motion to give the statehood bills right-of- way, told reporters he will take at least another day to test out the opposition’s strength before decid- ing whether—or what—new steps may be needed. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) announced he would vote against giving the statehood bills the rigt-of-way. He told reporters, however, the Senate GOP Policy Committee which he heads has not taken a stand on the issue. Both major party platforms ad- vocate statehood for the two terri- | tories. Senators Walk Out on Bill After the opening speech yester- idn_v in favor of the bill by Senator | O'Mahoney (D-Wyo), Senators | strayed out of the Chamber until (only a handful remained. The ser- jgeant at arms finally was sent out 'to round up absentees and assem- ble a quorum. There appeared to be little prospect of a vote on even | taking up the bill before Thursday, jand maybe not then. 0O'Mahoney had told his colleagues that defeat of the statehood bills would bolster the Kremlin's claims | that the United States is a colonial }pov\‘er. Their passage, he said, would be “a complete answer to Soviet | propaganda.” He said the Reds are | spreading the word that the U.S. |is mainly interested in making money in Alaska and Hawaii and | that “all our talk about seif-govern- {ment is so much delusion.” O'Mahoney told a reporter he thought a filibuster was likely. Butler Says Statehood Danger Senator Butler (R-Neb), ranking ‘GOP member of O’Mahoney’s In- j terior committee, charged that | statehood for the two territories ;would pave the way for “left-wing- ers” to enter the Senate. He told the Senate the people of Alaska and Hawaii “are not their | controlled by “radical labor groups.” |£nd with statehood, he said, thesm‘ storms, the Deputy Commander of operations groups could send radicals to the] MSTS' North Pacific isanme. Butler argued there was not “the ! |slightest need for haste” on state- {hood and that instead of helping Alaska, the statehood bill would hurt the territory. Senator Russell told the Senate that “if ever there was a time from a military standpoint” when state- hood should not be granted to the territories it is now. Statehood a Mistake He said it would be a mistake to place Alaska in the hands of “a| new, untried state government” when there “is danger of attack.” Senator Stennis (D-Miss) en- dorsed what Russell said and called the drive for Alaskan statehood at this time “shocking.” | Of Alaska's 500,000 square mile | area, he said, all but 1500 square | miles is owned by the government. Better Look to Korea | The Mississippian suggested that | Congress might better occupy itself | with the plight of American lorcesl in Korea, and observed in conclu- | sion: “If we need some more states let’s | get them from Texas.” | O’Mahoney, floor manager for the | bill, asked Stennis if he thought it possible to reach a vote on the mo- tion today. Stennis said he couldn’t shed any light on that. He added, | significantly, that “the opposition to | bounds, and I think there will be further discussion.” The Senate recessed later in the day without any action. | says. the bill is growing by leaps and e New Plan of WarMustBe Wofied Out Korean Situation Describ-| ed as “'Very Grave,” Says Sen. Tydings WASHINGTON, Nov, 20 — (# — Sen. Tydings (D-Md) said today after a conference with Defense officials that “mass invasion by hundreds of thousands of trained Chinese troops” in Korea calls for a complete new war plan. Tydings said that at a closed door meeting with the Senate Armed Services Committee Defense officials described the Korean sit- uation as “very grave.” He hinted the new war plans are being de- veloped now. ‘The report came chiefly from Lt. Gen. Alffed M. Grunther, a top Army strategy expert, and Under- Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett after the committee asked Defense Secretary Marshall for | battlefront details. Tydings told reporters: The number of Chinese troops that has been poured in is about | 200,000 and there is another con- tinuing big buildup in Manchuria. So far a terrific toll of death has been inflicted upon the Chinese invaders by United Nations and United States forces with propor- tionately small losses by U.N. and US. forces. Chinese morale, how- ever, was reported high. Officials here are weighing all possibilities, including military, dip- lomatic and domestic in planning the new Korkan defense. A careful watch is being kept in Europe and, reserves maintained against a possible move by Com- munist forces there. At first Tydings said he assumed that tentative plans included pos- sible use of the atomic bomb in| Korea. Later he revised that to say he assumed all possible military strategy was being considered. NO BARGES WERE L0ST, BERING SEA Anchorage Report of Dis- aster in Recent Storm Denied in Seattle SEATTLE, Nov. 20—(®—All mili- | tary sea transportation service | barges are in safe ports and none | were lost in the recent Bering Sea Capt. M. E. Eaton said an undis- closed number of the barges are in Kodiak and Whittier, Alaska. Two others are enroute to Whittier. He added that it was possible METS cargo might have been aboard some of the stricken barges, but that no MSTS barges were in- volved. Reports from Anchorage earlier told of millions of dollars of cargo being lost from barges during an 85-mile gale off the Bering coast. | e o 00 0000 0 0 of . ¢ WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 29; minimum, 21. At Airport—Maximum, 23; minimum, 6. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Tonight and Thursday increasing high, cloudiness, occasional gusty northeast- erly winds. Low temperature tonight near 20 in town and 5 to 10 in outlying areas. High Thursday near 30. PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ City of Juneau — None; since Nov. 1 — 4.21 inches; e since July 13324 inches. At Airport None; {® since Nov. 1 — 207 inches; front BIG ATTACK BY CHINESE REDS MADE {Allied Forces Are Fleeing South in Zero Weather to Escape Traps (By the Associated Press) Badly mauled United Nations troops streamed south today in a retreat under pressure of a three- pronged attack by 200,000 Red Chi- nese in Korea. The Allied forces poured across the icy Chongchon river in north- west Korea, to escape a Communist encircling movement. This was the point where Friday General Mac- Arthur launched his ill-fated end- the-war offensive. The retreat was carried out in near-zero weather. Helicopters shuttled back and forth removing the seriously wounded from the front. Field dispatches said withdrawal of the Eighth Army's eastern flank was all but completed. But there were no immediate reports of the fate of the 24th Division on the ex- treme west front. It was last re- ported in the Pakchon area north of the -iver. Saved From Trap Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, back at the front after an emergency top-commander conference with MacArthur in Tokyo, said the as- sault launched by his Eighth Army five days ago “probably saved our forces from a trap which might well have destroyed them.” He im- plied the early attack by the Alligs threw out the time schedule of the Communists who have another 200,000 troops being readied on the Manchurian border. Tank-Led Reds At Kunu on the south side of the Chonghon river, Allied units were being driven by tank-led Commun- ist assault. This was the first men- tion of armor being used by the Chinese. U.N. Forces held virtually nothing east of Kunu, Contact with the U.S. 10th Corps in northeast Korea was broken, Hordes of Chinese continued to pour through the Tokchon gap in the center of the peninsula. From here, the enemy has launched a smash designed to cut off Allied forces. Spearheads were aimed at points south and southeast of Kunu. The Eighth Army rushed up tanks and troops in an effort to hold open an escape corridor to Pyongyang, former North Korean capital. Salvage Hopes Military observers said there was hope of salvaging enqugh Allied manpower and materiel to set up a winter defense line somewhere in North Korea. In Washington high U.S. Defense officials expresed the belief Mac- Arthur has enough machines and firepower left to prevent a military disaster. It was up to the United Nations to decide whether the su- preme commander will' be given sufficient men and broadened orders to smash the Chinese offensive. Reds Not Withdrawing In the. U.N. Security Council yesterday the Communist Chinese (C:ntmu;}i "u’n f'ége Two) e STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle’ Friday afternoon. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday night. Denali from westward scheduled to arrive southbound on Sunday. SHOPPING DAYS | ® “since July 1—-23.12 inches. 21 TILL CHRISTMAS