The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 8, 1950, Page 1

i | | THE DAILY VOL. LXXVI,, NO. 11,678 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS Allies Battle for Break-Through Red Lines STATEHOOD WILL BE BARTLETT'S "FIRST BUSINESS Commitiee Will Introduce Bill in Senate January 3, Delegate Says By CHARLES D. WATKINS | today the government definitely is CEILING ON PRICES BUT - NO FREEZING ‘ WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—(P—Price stabilizer Michael V. Di Salle said | | making plans for a ceiling on prices | but sees no reason to freeze them WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 — (# — A | OV 7 ‘ new bill to make a state of Alaska| Such a celing would necessarily will be introduced in the Senate De coupled with a lid on wage in-| on the opening day (January 3) of |creases, but Di Salle told a news | conference he hoped any freeze the new Congress, Territorial Dele- | | would not be necessary. gate E. L. Bartlett said today. S He said he had assurance from 1IN any case, the former Toledo Chairman O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) | Mayor said his price agency would that the Senate Insular Committee ! be unable to impose a general ceil- will recommend the bill to the Sen- | Ing for 60 to 90 days because of a ate at once, without hearings. Long | lack of staff, space and adminis- hearings were held earlier this year, | trative organization. At the same time Bartlett smd.: Di Salle is director of price stab- a bill to grant Hawail smwhood"“_jz‘m"" in the economic stabiliza- will be introduced to be handlcdj“on agency. He spoke ab & eob- | in the same manner. ylerence held jointly with Economic Statehood First Business l‘SLahilu_’.mlon Administrator Alan “They will be the first order ofiValentme fmd Wage Stabilization business in the Senate” Bartlett|B0ard Chairman Cyrus . Ching. told a reporter. | All made it clear that a wage- “And then let the | small opposition talk as long as it|Price freeze, widely rumored in the wishes for I feel confident we will | last few days, is not imminent. be able to get a vote on the mea- | i goa sures.” } | The decision to introduce the | ALASKA UNION bills January 3 was reached by | 3 Delegates Bartlett (D) and Farring- | ton (R-Hawaii) after Majority | Leader Lucas (D-II) said there | was no chance of getting further consideration of House-passed state- | hood bills this year. | Butler Asks Election Bartlett also said he refused a Of a 10 percent wage increase has suggestion by Senator Butler (R- been rejected by representatives of Neb) that they introduce a bill in | machinists and carpenters em- the new Congress to permit A]ai-:l)loycd in the Alaska Salmon Can- | kans to elect their own Governor. [hing Industry, I. A. Sandvigen, Bartlett quoted Butler as saying | business = representative of Hope he believed such a law “should be | Lodge 79, International Association the first step toward statehood.” Bartlett countered that he stood | today. “for an elective Governor plus many ' The negotiating committees oher things,” adding: of i the two unions met with the Alaska | FREEDOM IS DENIED MANGAOANG, ILWU CANNERY LEADER SEATTLE, Dec. 8—(®—U.S. Dis- freedom today to Ernesto Mangao- ang, leader of Cannery Workers Local 7-C of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehouse- men's Union. The judge denied a writ of ha- beas corpus. Mangaoang was ar- rested Oct. 22 in a national roundup of suspected Communists. He is held by the Immigration Service. Judge Bowen ruled that the Fili- pino could prepare his defense ade- quately while in custody. GERMAN TROOPS BE INCLUDED IN W. EUROPE ARMY LONDON, Dec. 8—®—The 12 At- lantic Pact deputies have agreed on a plan to bring German troops into western armies defending Eu- rope, The deputies asked for a meet- ing with the North Atlantic Pact’s military committee for the joint consideration of the “political-mili- tary aspects of the German contri- bution.” “It is expected that this meet- ing will be held in the very near future,” the deputies said in a com- unique. The military committee is head- | SEATTLE, Dec. 8—®—An offer|ed by Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the U. 8. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Its approval of the plan is ex- pected to be followed quickly by President Truman’s appointment of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as Commander- in-Chief of Atlantic Pact organization armies in Eu- | of Machinists (Independent), saidlmpe. The communique did not outline the plan finally agreed upon. The deputies last were reported “If, as now seems likely, the |Salmon Industry, Inc., employerivirtually agreed on a Dutch com- Alaska statehood bill is not passed | group. Aproximately 1,000 machin- by the United States Senate dur- ;isw and 200 carpenters are involved. ing the short session, it will not be ;| Sandvigen said the unions de- promise plan to appoint a civilian commissioner who would supervise the recruiting of 150,000 German trict Judge John C. Bowen denied | because the bill has been vgy,edgmand a 20 percent wage increase. | troops who would comprise up to down. “Instead it will be because fili- bustering tactics prevailed. “As the debate has gone on dur- ing last week, it has become more than ever apparent that if time permitted both the Alaska and Ha- waii bills would be voted upon and both would be passed. Nothing But Statehood for Bartlett “To compromise for an elective Governor and an elective Governor only now would be to admit that statehood was finally defeated. “That I cannot do because the facts indicate that instead of being lost, statehood is in a much stronger position than ever.” Bartlett said that even if a Gov- ernor were elected under Butler's proposal Alaska would continue under “federal authority (over the Territory) to which Alaskans have objected over the years. “It is those controls which have proved most onerous and have as much as anything else prevented | the proper development of the Ter- ritory. Fishermen Will Demand It “T should not think thousands of Alaska fishermen, who look hope- fully towards statehood because it would give their own local govern- ment control over the fishery, would be at all satisfied with a measure that permitted them to elect a Governor but left unchanged the situation in respect to local autonomy over fishery resources. “A starving man cannot be ex- pected to be content with a slice of bread when the entire loaf is within reach.” (. C. STAPLES IN . SEATTLE HOSPITAL| Word was received today that Clinton C. Staples, Territorial Di- rector, Federal Housing Administra- tion, will enter the Doctors Hos- pital in Seattle today for an opera- tion. He will probably be confined to the hospital for the better part of a month. APW SEEKS OFFICES The Alaska Public Works office here is seeking approximately 2200 feet of office space, John Arget- singer, district engineer said to- day. Anyone having office space available is asked to contact him by telephoning 956 or calling at the present office at the Alaska-Juneau Mining Co., and S. Pranklin St. 'YAKUTAT SOON 70 HAVE | PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE Mrs. L. D. (Ruth) Williams will ‘leave Juneau December 16 for | Yakutat where she will fill the posi- | tion of Public Health Nurse-Midwife { for that community. | Mr. and Mrs. Williams arrived here this week from Chicago, Mr. | Williams will be employed with the| i CAA at Yakutat and the couple are Jlooking forward to enjoying life in Alaska. Mrs. Willlams is a graduate of | St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago and : obtained her midwifery training at ithe Frontier Graduate School of | Nursing in Hyden, Kentucky. She lalso holds a B.S. degree from the |Umversxty of Chicago where she jobtained her public health nursing training. % She worked for more than two | years with the Georgia Department lof Health where she did public | health nursing and midwifery work. She also worked in the Chicago Lying-In hospital and, most re- cently, in general nursing and sur- |gery at the Veterans Hospitals in | Dublin, Georgia and Hines, Il A Health Committee representing the Town of Yakutat and the CAA | station near Yakutat was organized three months ago to assist the city council in making preparations for the public health nurse. This work included renovating the community building which provides both living quarters and health center. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 8 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 96, American Tel. and Tel. 1561%, Ana- conda 36%, Douglas Aircraft 87%, General Electric 47%, General Mo- tors 45, Goodyear 60, Kennecott 70%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 29%, Standard Oil of Califorfnia 79%, Twentieth Cen- | tury Fox 19%, U'S. Steel 39%, Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange 95.31%. Sales today were 2,310,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 226.74, rails 72.50, utilities 39.07. FROM FUNTER BAY R. B. Hemmert of Funter Bay is 20 percent of a European army. RENT CONTROL 10 6O FOR 2 MONTHS NOW CONCENSUS WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—(®—The Federal Rent Control Program, due to expire in some areas Dec. 31, was assured today of at least an- other two months of life—and prob- ably more. Bills temporarily extending the rent law whipped through the Sen- ate and House yesterday, and today went to conference (3 pm. EST) to compromise differences. As Senate-House conferees ar- ranged to meet, all advance indi- cations pointed to a 75-day exten- sion of the present control law with inclusion of a provision simp- lifying decontrol procedure. The Senate version, passed by a vote of 55 td 28, provides for a two-month extension. The House voted 221 to 152 for a three-month extension. CONSTITUTION FOR HAWAII S ~ GIVENTRUMAN WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—#—Gov- ernor Ingram M. Stainback of Hawaii gave President Truman yes- terday a copy of the proposed Ha- wiian constiution ratified by Is- land voters in November. The constitution will be the new | basic law if Hawaii is given state- | hood. ‘ . Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman accompanied Stainback | to the White House. He told news- men he has not given up hope of getting a statehood bill through this sessiin of Congress. OIL MEN CONFER Red (laims Challenged ! LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. 8—P— Britain called upon Red China to- day to stop killing United Nations troops in Korea and put herself within the pale of the U.N. charter. If she does this, British Minister of State Kenneth Younger said, she will find all UN. members, both east and west, ready to cooperate. In a major policy speech before | the General Assembly's Political | Committee, the British Delegate thus appeared to be making a con- ciliatory move toward the Peiping | regime. He assured the Chinese Reds that no country here had any de- sire to fight them. At the same time, Younger de- clared that U.N. troops were sent to Korea originally to resist aggression and that they would stand by this principle despite the intervention of the Chinese Communists. ‘Younger spoke after the Political Committee heard a special report from the U.N.s seven-member Ko- rean Commission challenging So- viet claims that the Chinese in Korea were volunteers. SKAGWAY GROUP ARRIVES FOR BIG "98 DAYS FEATURE Members Only Here on Saturday Night Met by a delegation of Juneau Elks, the bearded and the unbeard- ed, and members of the Emblem Club, fourteen visitors from the Skagway Elks Lodge and blem Club, here to participate in‘the big Days of '98 celebration tomorrow were welcomed at the city dock when the Princess Louise put in port at 10 o'clock this morning. The Skagway visitors were taken by cars to the Baranof Hotel which their stay in Juneau. By noon they were ready to go into their practice routine for their first appearance, when they will put on their Cow- girl and Cowboy act at 10:30 o'- clock tonight in the Baranof Bub- ble room. Juneau Elks at the dock to meet their guests were headed by Pat Carroll, former mayor of Skagway, who was the originator of the Days of '98 celebration in Skagway and the presentation by the local Elks and who bears the distinctive title of Dishonored Judge of the Court of Injustice, Bearded Elks had done a fine job of bush growth and required identification for some of their oldtime friends from the | Gateway City. Among those con- spicuous for their con-conformity and appearing at the dock none- theless with the welcoming com- mittee were beardless Exalted Ruler Wallis George, PER Arthur (Scotty) Adams and Jim Beard. Prominent on the welcoming committee was Elmer, “Where's Elmer” Priend (bearded) featured tion party six weeks ago. The Skagway visitors are Lea Moe, Juanita Stevenson, Bea O'- Daniel, Virginia Steffen, Bud Blan- chard, Merle Sipprell, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Bigham, Marle Hoyt, Mrs. D. T. (Bunny) Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Erv Fairbanks, Adell McGuane, Mrs. Gail Budd. o These are the members of the Elks and Emblem clubs who are in the cast of the Cowboy and Cow- girl act; a Days of "98 show with Floradora Girls and Singing Bar- tenders; a Varlety Show and an Hawaiian act. : Tomorrow will be. given over en- tirely to the Eiks. in ' their club rooms. A cocktail party will be given in the lounge at 6 o'clock in the evening. At 8 o'clock a buffet By Brifain |Elks Staging Big Event for| 1 will be their headquarters during | | guest at the Skagway Elks Dedica- | RELIEF (OLUMN ON WAY Navy Reports Aid Nears Trapped Marines, Infan- trymen in N. E. Korea i oA WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—®—The Navy said today its late reports indicated that the Third Division Relief Column was within six miles of the Marines and Infantrymen battling southward from the Chang- jin Reservoir area in northeast Korea. Reporting at the regular brief- ing of reporters at the Pentagon late in the morning, a Navy spok- esman said this word was sent from the field about six hours earlier. HIGHER-UPS MEET WITH BIG CHIEFS Truman - Attlee Call in Barkley, Cabinet Mem- bers for Conference WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—(#—Pre- sident Truman and Prime Minister Attlee began the wind-up sessions of their conferences on the world crisis today, and asked Vice Presi- dent Barkley and members of Mr. Truman's Cabinet to meet with them. This was taken to mean the meeting wds chiefly for a review of what has been accomplished rather than being aimed at reaching fur- ther decisions. Gen, J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, was called in to News dispatches said that a snow- storm prevented Allied planes from supporting these forces today. How- ever, the Navy said that Navy and Marine fliers yesterday flew 507 sorties, most of them in direct sup- port of the withdrawing troops. The Air Force said that its big C-119 troop and equipment carriers ! were also giving direct aid to the imperiled forces. Yesterday these planes dropped eight bridge spans by parachute to enable the Allied force to cross a river. | The Navy confirmed press re- ports that United Nations forces had abandoned Chinnampo, the Yellow Sea port of Pyongyang, | North Korean capital. After all Al- lied ground troops were clear of the port, an Allied destroyer force including Australian, Canadian and American ships turned their guns on the port area “rendering it use- less to the enemy.” \Firemen fo Make Inspection of City | During Coming Wek The monthly meeting of the Ju- neau Fire Department broke up be- fore it started last night when an alarm rushed members to the Bar- |anof Hotel lounge. Finding no fire {but only smoke from an adjoining | store room, the firemen enjoyed a | revised editioin of “I Don’t Want [to start .the World on Pire by the lounge entertainers before re- ’turnmg to the meeting. Chief Minard Mill reported that there were 84 fire calls during the period Nov. 1, 1949 through Oct. 31, 1950 with an insurante loss of approximately $112,000. Next week firemen will inspect buildings throughout the city for/ fire hazards. Crews were selected for each day of the week beginning | |Monday. Members are to report each day at the Fire Club at 1 pm. | in uniform cap. The discussion arocse again re- garding tratfic during fire calls, re- i sulting in several suggestions for its control. Drivers again are urged to stop their cars during the sound-| ing of the fire alarm. Arrangements were completed for the annual Christmas party given by the department for Gastineau | Channel residents. Robert Haag was elected to mem- bership to replace Waino Hendrick- son who resigned after many years in the department. Hendrickson's resignation was accepted with re- | gret. | Guests introduced during the | meeting were Harry Lupro, Robert Vernon and Ralph Randall. Chef Driver Songnson’s lunch |ended the evening’s meeting. 'BPR: OFFICIAL IS 10 ATTEND ANCHORAGE CONFERENCE ON SAT. supper will be served and the Days | Vance Blackwell, Highway Engi- of '98 celebration, when the Court neer with the Bureau of Public of Injustice (Kangaroo Court) Wil | Roads, left.today via Pacific North- be held is scheduled to start at 9 ern Airlines for Anchorage to at- W. I Martin, district salesman from Seattle, and T. P. Hansen of Ketchikan, representing Union Oil Co., conferred here yesterday with fishermen union heads in regard to fuel oil price brackets. FROM WISCONSIN Martin Mackey of Oswego, Wis., lac the Baranof Hotel. is at the Baranof Hotel. o'clock, Arrangements for the celebration are in charge of Harold Fennell, chairman of ' the Elks Activities Committee who is being assisted by Pat Carroll, the two carrying out of Exalted Ruler Wallis George. Juneau Emblem Club members ]m arranging for the buffet supper. the program under the direction | | tend the joint conference of road builders and contractors, and Alaska Rallroad and Army officials regarding the proposed construc- tion'program in Alaska for the next season: The conference is scheduled to be held in Anchorage tomorrow |and Blackwell expects to return to his Juneau headquarters early| | next week. give a report on his flying visit to Korea. Collins returned only this morning. 50-50 Break The President and Prime Minister were reported to have reached wide agreement on European defense measures but to have had less suc- cess in welding a common front ont Far Eastern policy. The two are understood to have decided that the precise next steps to be taken on Korea and Com- munist China, aside from pending moves in the UN, must await evi- dence (A) as to whether United Nations forces can hold on there and (B) whether there is any chance of negotiating an acceptable settlement with the Chinese Com- munists, British Opposition The British are understood to have opposed various American suggestions for possible new mea- sures against the Chinese Reds, if the military situation continues to grow worse, on the grounds that they would result in a wastful and indecisive “limited war.” The American ideas for action, which might be taken through the United Nations, were reported to include a blockade of the China coast, WATCHMAN BURNS OLD C(OMET MINE BUILDING TO ATTRACT ATTENTION Setting fire to an old abandoned building is one way of attracting attention, thought Lawrence Frank, frail watchman at the Comet Mine | at Sherman Point. He tried it. Coast Guard personnel on Eldred Rock saw the large fire and black smoke, immediately reported it to headquarters here yesterday after- Frank was the only known person in the area and it was feared for his safety. Headquarters dispatched the 83- footer. It was learned that Frank, having no means of communication | had fired the old building in order | to send a message to Attorney Nor- | man Banfield. The message, “Have food until 20 December. Will re- main on property of Kensington and | Comet mine until time is up. Re- quest supplies.” Banfield was noti- fied. FROM SITKA Terry Troutte of Sitka Naval Re- serve is in Juneau at the Gastineau Hotel. WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 39; minimum, 34. At Airport—Maximum, 37; minimum, 34. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with occa- sional light rain tonfght and Saturday. Low temperature tonight near 33 and high Saturday near 38. PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 s.m. today City of Juneau—0.29 inches; since Dec. 1 — 1.80 inches; since July 1—35.04 inches. At Airport — 007 inches; since Dec. 1 — 122 inches; since July 1—24.34 inches. noon. A check quickly showed that’ Seek End To Korean F ighling Truman, Attlee Issue Com- munique - Principal Points Set Out ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 — (# — President Truman and Prime Min- ister Attlee today declared their readiness to negotiate for an end to the fighting in Korea, but said there could be ‘“no appeasement” and the aim must be a “free and independent Korea.” In a 2000-word communique, summing up their week of confer- ences on the tense world situation, the American and British leaders also in effect called on Russia and China to mend their ways and per- mit an end to the world’s armament race and drift toward another great war. Noting their previously an- nounced decisions to speed the building of defense forces, Mr. Tru- man and Mr. Attlee said: “We shall do this purely as a| defense measure. We believe that | the Communist leaders of the Soviet Union and China, could, if they chose, modify their conduet in such a way as to make these defense preparations unnnecessary. We shall do everything that we can, through whatever channels are open to us, to impress this view upon them and to seek a peaceful solution of existing issues.” No Atomic Bomb On another point, their communi- que contained an fmplied promise by President Truman not to use the atomic bomb without letting Attlee know in advance. Specifically as to Korea, the two heads-of-state made these princi- pal points: (a) no appeasement; (b) readiness to negotlate if the Communists are willing on the basis | set out, and (c) their intention—it the Communists do not wish to ne- gotiate—of leaving it up to the Unied Nations to say what should be done. These points were set out in this | language: “We were in complete agreement that there can be no thought of ap- peasement or of rewarding aggres- sion, whether in the Far East or elsewhere, Lasting peace and the future of the United Nations as an instrument for world peace depend upon strong support for resistance against aggression. “For our part we are ready, as we have always been, to seek an end to the hostilities by means of negotiation.” ‘The communique was issued after a final two hour and 20 minute | meeting of the two heads of gov- | ernment. and members of Mr. Truman’s cabi- net were asked in and heard the communique read. 'NO DAMAGE RESULTS IN NIGHT FIRE CALL A slight sense of confusion re- sulted from the 1-3 fire call last night. Simultaneous with Fire Chief Minard Mill rapping the gavel to call the meeting of Volunteer Fire Department to order at 8 o'clock sharp, the fire call sounded. The firemen just sat for a mo- ment thinking it was a call for a practice run, The astonished look real thing. All headed for the brass pole leading from the meeting room down into the fire station. The fire truck drivers finally had to head down the stairs with others in hot pursuit. opening in the Baranof Bubble Room was no damage. Likewise to the firemen in their efforts to an- swer the call to duty. NEW BOOKS POPULAR Among the popular new books at the Juneau Public Library is Cyril Harris' “Street of Knives,” a novel about Aaron Burr, Mrs. Edna Lo- men, librarian, said today. Other new books on the shelves are “Pepper Tree,” by John Jen- nings; “Kon Liki” by Thor Heyer- dahl; and “Professor Fodorski” by Robert Taylor, she said. NORDBY MAN HERE M. J. Klepser of the Nordby Sup- ply Co. Seattle, is a guest at the i Baranof Hotel. Vice President Barkley | on Mill's face told them it was the | Result of the fire to a hot air| o UN FORCES TRYING T0 REACH SEA Thousands Scattered in Northwest Korea Attempt fo Reach Escape Port (By the Associated Press) Thousands of American and Al- lied troops battled desperately to break through fiery Red Chinese traps today in efforts to reach the Korean east coast for probable mass removal by sea. Chinese forces were reported close behind one retreating force of 20,000 at the Koto airstrip, on both sides of a canyon trail lead- ing down to the sea, and ahead of them near their expected place of embarkation on the Sea of Japan at Hungnam. Thousands of others scattered in the northeast were trying to reach the escape port. In Northwest Korea, only patrol contact was reported along the newly formed Eighth Army defense line. i Escape by Sea ‘Top American Naval and Marine officers conferred secretly on a ship off the stormy east coast. A U.S. Eighth Army source said some Allied South Korean troops, in the Far Northeast, already had escaped by sea. ‘The big question was how many others in the northeast could reach the coast. At the most “critical spot the 20,000—U.S. Marines and Doughboys \ and a few British—were in the midst of a tank-led drive to break out of a four-sided Chinese trap south of the Changjin reservoir. Reds Rake Soldiers Reds entrenched on dominating ridges and shielded by a snowstorm from Allled air attack raked the column with heavy fire, The Leathernecks and Infantry- men moved slowly down a steep, ice-glazed and snowy mountain trail from Koto, eight miles south of the reservoir, Forward plements had covered five of the 45 long miles from Koto to the east coast escape port of Hungnam by Friday noon- time. i Driving north to meet them was a relief column of the U.S. Third | Division, trying to clear the roads into the mountains from Hungnam. Cutoff Threatened But even if the 20,000 should link up and escape that fiery defile, | thousands of additional Chinese massing north of Hungnam and the nearby industrial city of Hambung threaten to cut them off again. More than 1,700 critically wounded Marines and Doughboys have been flown from Koto. Far north of the reservoir, the 17th. Regiment of the U.S. Seventh Division was moving through moun- tains swarming with Chinese but its whereabouts was not announced. The 17th withdrew from a 10-mile stretch of the Yalu river boundary of Red Manchuria. It had been the only American outfit to reach the Yalu. Evacuated by Water In the far northeast, elements of the South Korean Capital Division (Continued ¢cn Page Two) STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali scheduled to sail from Se- attle at 5 p.m. today. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday. Baranof from west, scheduled to arrive Sunday noon southbound. 13 TILL CHRISTMAS