The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,676 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Trapped U. S. Forces in Korea to Fight It Out Fonme oonaarons ROSS. DIES PROMISED BY DMA GIVING OUT - NEWSINFO Field Headquarters in Al- |President Truman's Offi- | X SN cial Secrefary Expires aska Will Be Estab- lished in Juneau Boyd, chief of the new Defense Suddenly at Desk Minerals Administration, promised | oo, i full federal help today to mining | WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 ™ | operators who will increase pro-| % |Charlie Ross, President Truman's S aterials. | . A culsilidi e e official voice in day to day con- Boyd told the annual meeting of | = § 4 g the American Mining Congress last '“Er‘;ew“l’,":\‘:s““:""' is dead. night that the new DMA, under the ERTS | Dress SHGlaALY Department of Interior, can help‘wmumb“d 8t 5:50 pm. yesterday ‘of a heart attack. He was 65. mine operators. 1. Get a government guarantee ol‘ a private loan for mining work. | 2. Get a government loan. ‘ 3. Obtain contracts for dlspoflng‘ of their output at snusfacwry\ prices. A fourth method of obtaining aid | is available under the Internal Rev- enue Act of 1950. This allows an‘ operator to apply part of his m«! come tax against payments for hls\ plant or for his equipment under | certain conditions. This aid is avail- able through the National Securities Resources Board. | “We must get the maximum pro- | duction possible, every available | pound, from existing facilities im- | mediately,” Boyd said. “Second, we must make concentrated efforts to find additional deposits of ore.” | Applications for government assistance should be sent to him at the Interior Department, Wash- ington, Boyd said. 1 The DMA will not maintain a field staff but will rely upon the Bureau | of Mines-Geological Survey teams! in various districts. | Among field headquarters to be! established will be ones at Juneau, ! Alaska, Spokane, Wash., and San Francisco. CASH AWARDS FOR BEST CHRISTMAS WINDOW DISPLAYS ‘Window decorators are racking their brains to dream up winning Christmas displays. Dr. John Clements, chairman of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce | Christmas decorations committee, | announced today that cash awards | for winning business house dis- plays will be the same as last year. First award will be $35; se- | cond, $20; and third, $10. | Merchandise prizes will be given | to the best residence and apart- ment_house outside decorations, he | said. These will be announced later. | Two groups of judges remain to be chosen, one for the business' houses and one for the residences. Judging will take place on Decem- ber 22. L The Washmgtoni Merry - Go- Round Copyright, 1950, by Bell @ynaicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON — Sometimes I think Washington has a hard time | catching its breath between wars. | . . Around the corner from where | I live is an old barrack, built to| house Northern nurses during the Civil War. Built hastily, it was to be torn down after the Civil War, | but the city grew, housing space was scarce. It is still there, revamp- | ed, cut up into apartments. . .Down New York and Maryland Avenues are other barracklike buildings built during World War I, also to have been torn down afterward. Again the city grew, office space was| " scarce. The buildings are still there —ugly, cold in winter, hot in sum- | mer, the remnants of war. . .Behind | the White House, along the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, in Poto- | mac Park are more r.emporaryq buildings built during World War | II, scarring the landscape like the | scars of war. . .Now, with the news from Korea—more government ex- | pansion, more broken homes. more | ruined lives, more war. ‘Washington is a paradoxical place in wartime. On the surface nobody is ruffled, nobody seems to give a hang. . .Harry Truman has about the same list of callers, many from Missouri—Judge Bennett Clark, formery of St. Louis, Bill Boyle of | Kansas City, Congressman Bolling RN O S R i e L R R (Continued on Page Four) | I ;But not even some of the press | secretary’s |aware of this. {where Ross was born. 'SNOW BLANKETS | Memphis, Tenn., before dawn were |record for Dec. 6 at Denver. But| | Frazer, Colo., had 30 below. A kind, gentle, sentimental news- paperman, Charles G. Ross was catapulted into national prominence when his boyhood friend, Harry S. Truman, became President of the United States. As he would have wished it, {Ross died at his desk and, more important, as a reporter, “It was characteristic of Charlie Ross that he was holding a press conference when the summons came,” Mr. Truman said in a state- ment. “He fell at his post, a cas- ualty of his fidelity to duty and | his determination that our people |should know the truth, and all the truth, in these critiqal times.” Ross long an ace reporter for the St. Louis PUSl<D15patch~vhaa Just reported to about 40 newsmen( on the second conference of the| President and Prime Minister Att- | lce Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham, the President’s physician, rushed up from the White House basement, {but he said later “he was gone be- (fore I got there.” Graham said Ross had had a jseries of heart attacks, the last major one about two months ago. closest friends were The President and Ross grew up | together in Independence, Mo., As a newspaperman, he won a | Pulitzer Prize in 1931 for a story on the depression outlook. NATION, CANADA T0 LOUISIANA (By the Associated Press) Snow pile§ up today in a long strip from Canada into Dixie. It formed a white belt across the nation’s midsection from Lake Su- perior to Louisiana and from Iowa to Ohio. A blizzard, with gusts up to 40 miles per hour whipped up 24 inches 1 of snow in Superior, Wis. The fall there late yesterday and today set a record for depth in a short period. The neighbor city of Duluth, | Minn, had a foot of snow and it kept falling. Winds churned up three Jfoot drifts. Minenapolis had | snow coat and deeper. Flakes a seven inch it was getting | that began falling in expected to pile up a five inch depth. Arkansas was blanketed under one to four inches. It was 33 below zero at Eckman, ND., 15 below at Chadron, Neb., 11 below at Atlantic and Spencer, Ia, eight below at Tarkio, Mo., two below at Woodward, Okla. A reading of six below set a low And Juneau had a four inch fall of snow last night and plows have been out clearing the streets. NATL. GUARD TAKES POSSESSION OF NEW ARMORY IN ANCHORAGE | The recently completed Anchor- age National Guard Armory will be used for the first time Thursday evening when Headquarters Co., 207th Infantry Battalion holds a regular drill in it, according to word received at the Territorial National Guard headquarters here. This is the first opportunity .the 207th Infantry Battalion has had to hold a drill in quarters of its own. FROM RUPERT Samuel Lincoln, of Prince Ru- pert, B. G, is in Juneau for the week. He is stopping at the Hotel Juneau. 'NOME HAS BLAZE; l“ the Baranof Hotel. EXCESS PROFITS TAX MEASURE IS PASSED BY HOUSE WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — ® — A hige excess profits tax bill bear- ing 378-20 House approval faced the prospect today of major op-! erations in the Senate. Senator George (D-Ga), Chal man of the tax-writing Senate Fi nance Committee, predicted some | drastic changes for the measure in the Senate, but he voiced confidence that Congress still will send the measure to President Truman be- fore the New Year, ! Lopsided House passage came late | yesterday. The real test came on a Republican effort to substitute a GOP-drafted tax bill for that being pushed by the Administration. Vot- | ing on party lines, the House beat | down the GOP version 252 to 145. The 20 who voted “No” on final| passage were all Republicans, The House bill would impose a| 75 percent tax on corporation profits | | which exceed 85 percent of the av-| erage earnings in the three best of | the four years 1946 through 1949.| The levy would apply to earnmgsl since last July 1. i The Senate Finance Committee is known to be taking a long look at| the House formula. | THREE BUSINESS HOUSES DESTROYED 6—(M—A! NOME, Alaska, Dec. midnight fire destroyed Nome’s only bakery and several other downtown business buildings. Only a lack of wind was believed to have saved other structures on the south side of Front Street. The | fire, of unknown origin, was battled in ten degrees below zero tempera- ture. The flames destroyed the North Pole Bakery, Northern Grill and | Scotty’s Bar and Liquor Store. | Tax Exemption Was Scught by Producers | 0f Essenfial Minerals WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — B —| Producers of all strategic, critical| and essential minerals should be granted exemptions under the ex- cess ,profits tax bill, Rep. D’Ewart (R-Mont) argued yesterday. He told the House that the legis- lation which later was passed and sent to the Senate exempts corpo- rations producing 14 listed minerals | and that this is “fine and sensible | as far as it goes.” | But he added: “It appears wholly illogical, in- consistent and detrimental to the needs of the economy and defense production program of the United States to exclude copper, lead, zinc, bauxite and all other strategic,| critical and essential minerals from | the exemption provided under . . . the proposed law.” | D’Ewart said there are no known deposits in the United States of | three of the 14 minerals capable of | commercial exploitation. He named | the three as platinum, tin and tan- talum. CAGE GAME THURSDAY EVENING IN DOUGLAS The Douglas High Huskies meet the Arctics for the first time to- morrow night at 8 in the Douglas gymnasium. Friday night, the Imperial Imps play the Columbia Lumbermen in the first of a double-header in the Juneau High gymasium at 7:30. Sec- ond game is between the Juneau High Crimson Bears and Mike'’s Nite Owls. CONNORS CONDITION FAIR J. J. Connors, U. 8. Collector of | Customs, who is at St. Ann’s Hos- pital, is reported to be in fair| condition and enjoys brief visits from his old friends. FROM CHICAGO Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Williams of Chicago are registered at the Bara- nof Hotel. FROM PRINCE RUPERT George Anderson and Harold Hil- land of Prince Rupert are stopping STATEHOOD |New Trial Is BILL AGAIN | Ordered, Case DISCUSSED, Judith Coplon 1 | Bartlett Prepares for Ac- New vork, Dec. 6—n—The conviction of Judith Coplon on fion Next COflgreSS But |charges of veing a Russian spy has v . | been reversed by a Federal Court of 0 Mahoney Has vlews Appeals. However, the court de- A clared that her “guilt is plain” and (By Charles D. Watkins) {refused to dismiss the indictment. {It ordered a new trial. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—®—With | 'mne Second Circuit Court of Ap- Alaska Statehood apparently dead peals yesterday ordered the new for this year, Delegate Bartlett gy} for the comely 29-year-old began laying plans today to seek |grosiivn resident on grounds that carly passage of a statehood bill 1| per grrest without a warrant was the 83t Oongross. illegal. FBI wiretapping also was a But Senator O’'Mahoney (D-Wyo) chairman of the Senate Interior committee and sponsor of pending statehood legislation, refused to concede defeat, O’Mahoney said he had not given | up hope and will try again to bring | up the statehood bill if the Senate will dispose of its pending busi- ness—rent control extension and a railroad labor bill. “The railroad labor act was one of the excuses used for delay in acting upon the statedhood bill,” { O'Mahoney told a reporter. “If it is gotten out of the way we can try again to bring up the statehood bill. RR Bill Is Question “If no action is taken on the railroad bill it will show the nature of the opposition. I contemplate no trouble on the railroad labor act if the proposed amendment by Senator Jenner (R-Ind) is offered.” Jenner has said he will offer an amendment to add a fair employ-| ment practices provision to the! railroad bill, Bartlett said he would like to see | the Alaska bill brought up in the Senate within two weeks after the new Congress convenes January 3. “It would be unnecessary for the Senate Interior Committee to hold | hearings on the bill,” additional Bartlett said in an interview. Action Next Congrgss “It could report the bill favor- ably to the Senate quickly and I believe the Senate could act quick- ly. “I do not believe any filibuster would be of such proportion that it could not be beaten by supporters of the bill. “I would like to see the action taken first by the Senate.” not | factor in the reversal. Miss Coplon, former Department of Justice employee, and Valentin A. Gubitchev, 33-year-old Russian engineer and suspended United Na- | tions employee, were convicted last | March. They were found guilty of conspiring to transmit secret de- fense information. Each was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Because of the tense in- ternational situation, Gubitchev was allowed to return to his native Rus- sile—“never to return”—instead of serving his term, He relinquished the right of appeal. His brunette and attractive co- defendant—married to one of her lawyers after her conviction—has been free in $20,000 bail pending appeal. She also is appealing a sen- tence of 40 months to ten years im- posed previously on a Washington, .C., conviction of stealing govern- | ment secrets. Yesterday's reversal here does not affect the Washing- | ton_conviction. BRITISH FLAG T0 FLY WITH U.S. FLAG TO LAST IN KOREA | Attlee Makes Pledge-Also Says ‘No Appeasement’ fo Commie China WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — B — IPrlme Minister Attlee of Britain declared today there will be “no | appeasement” of Communist China 1 | | | | | He added that if House rules arc |in an effort to halt the Korean changed so as to again give v.heirnghclng rules Committee exclusive authority | “We all know from our own bitter to schedule major bills for House|experience that appeasement doe: consideration “we might run into|not pay,” he told a National Pres: the same situation as we did in 1949 when the rules committee re- fused to report the measure to the House.” Committee Bloc Bartlett recalled that the bill reached the House last spring un- der a change in the rules by which a committee Chairman -had the power to call up legislation approv- ed by his group if the Rules com- mittee failed to act for 21 days| after he had asked clearance of a measure, Some Democrats have advocated restoring the full power of the Rules committee to clear bills. “I think that if the Senate pass- es the bill next session we will have | better opportunity to get it be- fore the house than if we start our measure on the House side,” Bartlett said. Viewing the scene objectively, T am still inclined to the opinion there is good chance of Alaska get- | ting statehood in 1951. We should | know by next March 1.” . WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this inorning In Juneau—Maximum, 34; minimum, 22 At Airport—Maximum, 30; minimum, 20, FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Light rain and snow tonight and tomorrow. Low tempera- ture tonight near 32 and high tomorrow about 36 degrees. . lo . . 3 . . . . . . . ® . . . . . PRECIPITATION © (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—0.68 inches; since Dec. 1 — 0.76 inches; since July 1—34 inches. At Alrport — 0.77 inches; since Dec. 1 — 097 inches since July 1—24.09 inches ® ® 0000000 Club luncheon. Attlee departed from a prepared text to make this statement and tc ‘deny flatly reports that his govern- men intends to “appease” the Chi- {nese Communists. | He said: “I have been told there are some | people that believe that is what I came here for. That is not true.” Speaking slowly to a standing room-only audience, Attlee touched {off a big burst of applause when { he said Britain intends to stand by | the United States in Korea. | He pledged that so long as “the Stars and Stripes fly in Korea the British flag will fly beside them.” TWO MEN REPORTED MAROONED, RUGGED ISLE, NEAR SEWARD The U. 8. Coast Guard cutter | Sedge is proceeding from Kodiak |to Seward to answer a distress call CG headquarters said today. | Anna B. Southard, U. S. Com- imiuloner at Seward, reported that |two Seward men, whose names | were not given, were believed 0 | be marooned on Rugged Island at | the mouth of Resurrection Bay. It |is thought that their boat is lost, |she said. High winds and heavy | seas have prevented local aircraft from searching. As soon as weather permits, a Coast Guard PBY plane | will leave Kodiak to aid in the | search, STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive from Skagway Friday and def- |inite time will be anounced to- Baranof from west, scheduled to arrive Sunday southbound. Denali scheduled to sail from Se- attle Friday, ! NEW ISSUE TAKEN UP, TWO CHIEFS Truman aanee Discuss, Europe as Prime Center Communism Conflict By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — (B — President Truman and Prime Min- ister Attlee opened the third of their Korean crisis talks today amid reports they have agreed that Eur- ope is the prime center of conflict with Soviet Communism. Some diplomatic informants de- scribed this as the firmest point yet | developed in the discussions which opened here Monday afternoon and are expected to continue through tomorrow. By implication, the reported | agreement affirms the British view —and one long held by many high officials here — that the Western | Powers cannot allow a large portion of their military strength to be sucked into a conflict with Red China, Attlee returned to the White House at 11:30 am. for a short! meeting with Mr. Truman, then was due to go directly to the Na- tional Press Club for his only public address in this country. Responsible informants reported that the Truman-Attlee session on the presidential yacht Wflllsmsburg yesterday afternoon was concerned with possible military and diplo- matic moves growing out of the critical situation in which Com- munist Chinese forces have placed U.N. troops in Korea. Among dip- lomats talk of possible fighting evacuation—a kind of Korean Dun- kerque—continues although the U.S. Defense Department has made ef- | forts to minimize any such talk at | this time. The talk of such a possibility has, of course, always hinged on Lhe: question of whether the Chinese | Reds continue their heavy military pressure and the U.N. forces are| unable to establish a firm defense line. | TROLLERS TO PRESENT DECISON TO HALIBUT C(OMMISSION MEETING Nominations for United” Trollers of Alaska officers for the coming vear and a discussion on halibut took place at a meeting held last night in the CIO Hall here. Renominated for executive secre- | tary for all union branches was | Andy Barlow; for executive council members for Local 100 Board, was | O. G. Nolde, Homer Saxman was nominated for branch financial se- cretary; Carl Weidman, Cliff Ma- son, Ken Millard and Herb Savikko | or the branch auditing committee. There was a lengthly discussfoy o the different prices paid for | salmon in the different ports. It is | he contention of all the UTA! sranches that equal prices be paid | at all ports during the fishing sea- son, using the Ketchikan Fish Ex- change as a basic minimum, It was agreed that Local 100 pre- sent a resolution to the Interna- tional Halibut Commission meet- ing on January 25 in Seattle, a re- quest to allow trollers to sell at least part of incidentally-caught halibut, The resolution read: “That all incidentally-caught halibut taken by trollers during the entire season of trolling, be allowed to be sold rather than thrown overboard as now practiced. We feel that the trollers should be allowed at least a certain percentage of halibut caught incidentally with a reason- able amount of salmon. This should be allowed to salmon trollers as well as the blackcod fishermen who are permitted 14 percent of halibut wvaught incidentally %n blackcod fishing.” The trollers believe that most of the halibut that are thrown back Vishinsky Derides Plea No Halting Red China Says Russ Made fo Halt China Forces, 38th Parallel LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. 6—(®— Russia’s Andrei Vishinsky today de- rided a direct appeal by 13 Asian and Middle, East countries to Pei- ping to halt its forces at the 38th parallel in Korea. He spoke before the U.N. Assem- bly, which soon afterward voted 51 to 5 (Soviet bloc) to place on its emergency program a resolution designed to halt Communist Chi- nese intervention. Vishinsky said Red China and its people want peace, but that it must | come after the withdrawal of UN. forces from Korea. The Soviet Foreign Minister told | the emergency session of the Assem- bly that the 13 Asian and Middle | East countries which appealed last night for the halt at the parallel were the same powers that sup- ported crossing the 38th parallel when U.N. troops were advancing. | Appeal Is Made | India, which sparked. the newest direct peace plea to Communist| China, abstained from voting for | the northward crossing of the parallel. The Philippines, Egypt, | and nine other Asian and Middle East countries joined India in the new appeal last night. ‘The Assembly went into its emer- gency se§sion to discuss putting a six-nation plea for halting Chinese ! intervention in Korea at the top of its program. This was advanced by the big three western powers and | Norway, Ecuador and Cuba after a | similar plea was vetoed in the Se- curity Council by Russia. 1 | Demands Quick Action Carlos P. Romulo, Philippines | Foreign Minister and one of the | signers of the 13-nation direct ap- | peal, pleaded for quick Assembly | action. “The peace of the whole world ! may depend on what we do or fail' to do here,” he told the delegates. Warren R. Austin, Chief U. 8.! Delegate, confined his Assembly | statement to a plea for putting on | the agenda “one of the greatest questions faced by he U. Gold Fish Killed , By DDT; City Pays ! N COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 6—(#—The city has paid Hobart Trabert $107.03 for 712 goldfish. | The fish are dead. But that's why the city paid. Trabert, who has an open acquar- ium in his backyard, asked the city . not to spray his alley with DDT.| The city did, and the fish died. Health Commissioner Ollie M. Goodloe said the DDT killed them. | Hello, Hello, Please Get Off the Line; Nuts To You; House Burns (By Auomud Press) Here's a new twist to party line | troubles. Mrs. G. C. Maddox of | Bluefield, West Virginia, found her home afire and hurried to the tele- phone—on an eight-party line. | Two long-winded talkers were on | and despite Mrs. Maddox’s plead- | ings, they refused to give her the line. As a result her farm home | burned down. Incidentally, one of | the few things saved was the tele- | phone. BPR ENGINEER IS ASSIGNED TO SEWARD A. K. Neeley, construction en- Roads, has been assighed to the Seward office where he will be into the sea after being caught on a troller line, die and are thereby wasted. STORIS ICEBREAKING The Coast Guard cutter Storis is continuing attempts to break 6- inch ice in Hood Bay today, for the vessel Forester to get in to the dock. Shoal waters are hindering progress, CG headquarters said to- day. assistant to B. M. French, engineer in charge. He left Juneau on the Baranof, accompanied by Mrs. Neeley and their daughter, Judith. TAKING MASONIC DEGREES Candidates here frim Petersburg who are taking Masonic degrees, four through thirty-second this week are Martin Brue, Sam Iden, EIGHTH ARMY DIGS IN FOR NEW DEFENSE Marine, Seventh Infaniry . Divisions, Trapped But . Optimism Expressed (By the Associated Press) Allied Eighth Army forces dug in for a stand against overwhelming Communist Chinese troops in West Korea today while world diplomats struggled to remove the danger of the Korean conflict igniting into a world war. President Truman and Prime Minister . Attlee continued their talks in Washington faced with three possibilities: 1. That the 1,000,000-man Chinese Communist army might stop short of the 38th parallel as it was urged to do by 13 Asian and Middle East nations at Lake Success. 2. That United Nations forces might be able to hold a line thus giving more time to achieve a satis- factory political solution. 3. That U. N. forces might be forced to pull out of Korea in an Oriental Dunkerque. Trapped Forces General MacArthur's headquar- ters reported “decreasing pressure” against Marines and Doughboys cut off by masses of Chinese troops at Hagaru and Koto in Northeast Ko- rea. Elements of the First Marine and Beventh-Infantry-Divisions are trap- ped in the Changjin reservoir area. Col. Lewis (Chesty) Puller, com- mander of the First Marine Divi- sion, was quoted as saying: “We will suffer heavy losses. The enemy greatly outnumbers us. They have blown the bridges, blocked the roads. Our vehicles may not get through, but we will make it some- how.” In Great Peril The whole 10th Corps of five divisions is in great peril. It is over-extended and dispersed in the 17,000-foot mountains and sub-zero cold of northern Korea. It may soon be cut off from land com- munications with the south. One Chinese spearhead has al- ready cut the main highway be- tween the two major east coast ports {of Hungnam and Wonsan. Hung- |nam is about 50 air miles south of ‘Wonsan, 10th Corps headquarters. Fighting Chance The Eighth Army had ‘a fighting chance in the west. The new de- fense line was not defined in de- tail by General MacArthur’s head- quarters. A spokesman said only that it ran from a point south of Pyongyang to positions south and west. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, U. 8. Army Chief of Staff on a flying (Continued cn Page Two) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 6 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine¢ stock today is 2%, American Can 94'%, American Tel. and Tel. 150%, Anaconda 36%, Douglas Aircraft 87%, General Electric 467, General Motors 46%, Goedyear 60, Kenne- cott 69%, Libby McNeill and Libby | 8%, Northern Pacific 28%, Stan- dard Oil of California 79%, Twen- | tieth Century Fox 19%, U.S. Steel 39%, Pound. $2.80%, Canadian Ex- change 95.43%. Sales today were 2,010,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 226.16, rails 70.99, utilities ¥ gineer with the Bureau of Publicj | SHOPPING DA YS Robert A. Lindblom, Ragnar Stokke and Andrew Wikan, s TILL CHRISTMAS