The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL TIIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVI., JUNEAU, ALASKA, WED! “I‘:\\', DECEMBER 20, 1950 fom X\Il-“\u.. I{ ASSOC L\"H D P hP \\ I‘RI('H TEN CENTS ==y Swarming Reds Checked in Beachhead A ttack CEILINGON WAGES IS PROMISED Government fo Maich Na- | tionwide Honor Sys- | tem by Industry WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 — (® The government today promised a voluntary wage ceiling formula “as soon as possible” to match the na- tionwide honor system price control newly put into effect for all in- dustry. The Economic Stabilization Agency summoned into a meeting here the management and union leaders of more than 1,000,000 auto workers for talks which may pro- vide a clue to the coming wage re- straints on all labor. ‘The agency meantime hoped for a wave of voluntary price rollbacks —mostly at the mill, mine and fac- tory level—in accordance with its price-profits formula announced | last night. But if compliance does not come voluntarily, ESA Administrator Alan Valentine warned, compulsory price ceilings will be clamped on and the standards may be “more rigorous” than those now set forth. There was ample indication that ESA considers the voluntary for-! mula a stop-gap. If it restrains inflation until March, the infant agency may be ready to enforce mandatory controls wherever needed. Criticizes “Freeze” Rowland Jones, Jr., President of the American Retail Federation, criticized the voluntary “freeze” an- nouncement as “vague in some as- pects” and said it raised “serious questions of theory and poli Which must await further mvesu» gation and clarification.” Jones said in a statement t}m' some of the suggested principles, if they became part of a mandato; price control system, “could raiss obstacles to the end-objective of] increased production and efficient distribution.” Two Republican Senators, mean- while, charged that stabilization officials ignored the intent of Con- gress in taking price control action without parallel action on wages at | the same time. i The Senators, Bricker of Ohio and Capehart of Indiana, said Con- gress made it plain during debate | on the Defense Production Act | earlier this year that price and! wage action should be taken simul- taneously if taken at all. Bricker and Capehart likewise expressed doubt that a voluntary price freeze would do much good. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali scheduled to sail from Se- attle Friday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver December 30. Baranof from west scheduled to arrive Sunday morning southbound. The Washington! Merry - Go- Round | Copyright, 1950, by Bell Synaicate, Ine.! By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—A unique back- stage difference of opinion has de- veloped between two of the most important policy-makers in the Cabinet—Secretary of State Ache- son and Secretary of Defense Mar- shall—over hostilities in the Orient The difference is that Acheson, accused by Republicans of being an appeaser, is far more belliger- ent than Marshall, a military man. Marshall’s view—and it's shared by other military men—is that we must let no hysterical cries from Congress or irresponsible military actions in Asia embroil us in war. What Marshall and his mihtury' staff fear is that some sudden move | by us may convince the Russians we are about to attack, thereby causing them to move first. Our best intelligence is that Russia does not want a major war, though she could be stampeded | into one. Therefore, Secretary Marshall, in meetings of the Cabinet and the | National Seeurity Council, has| pleaded for®calmness. He has also warned General MacArthur against (Continued on Page Four) She Has Your Number Patricia Neal, lovely Warner Bros. star of “Operations Pacific” shows one of Alaska’s 1951 automobile license plates. The new plate has blue numerals on a yellow background. now fer sale in Alaska. The plates are UNIONS ASK PROTECTION (. OF L. RISE WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 — (® — Union labor demanded today that any government wage controls plan to allow for pay increases to match rises in the cost of living. A united labor policy committee, {headed by AFL President William Green and CIO President Philip Murray, took this request to Presi- dent Truman even as the Economic Stabilization Agency worked on & wage formula to go along with the voluntary price control system an- nounced last night. Members of the group said they | also asked new legislation to per- mit great controls over foods prices and rents. They gave reporters a statement which made these main points as to | wages: 1. Any wage stabilization policy must permit adjustment of wage rates to make up for increases in the cost of living and “must recog- njze existing collective bargaining agreements which themselves assure stability.” 2. The nohcv also should provide for correction of substandard wages and adjustments of inequities in existmg wage rates within or be- tween industries. “Wage stabiliza- tion must not become wage freez- ing,” the committee said. 3. Overtime payments for pre- mium work now protected by col- lective bargaining agreements or existing law, that is work over 40 hours a week in the case of law, “must continue to be held invio- late.” There was a chance this meeting would produce some clue to ESA’s planned = wage restraints on all labor. Family of Bing Croshy Is Going On Air Tonigh!| HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 20—{#—The Bing Crosby family, en masse, will be on the O Groaner’s CBS radio show tonight. Mrs. Crosby, the former Dixie Lee, decided to break her 15-year re- tirement and appear in a special | Christmas program with Bing and their four sons, Gary, Dennis, Phil- l lip and Lindsay. The boys have appeared fre- quently. SITKA VISITORY Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Schaefer of Sitka are registered at the Baranof Hotel, DREHM IS - INDICTED, FUND CASE CongressmMarged with lllegally Getting Money from Office Staff A Federal Grand Jury today in- dicted Rep. Brehm (R-Ohio) on seven charges of illegally getting money from two of his office em- !ployees for use in his successful I re-election campaign. The indictment, returned in dis trict irt,®listed the employees as Clarg Soliday and Emma S. Craven Brehm, from Logan, Ohio, has been a member of the House since 1942. He is 58 years old. He was graduated from Ohio State’ University in 1917 with a de- gree in dental surgery. Learning of the jury action Brehm issued the following state- ment at his office: “Now maybe we can get the facts on the record. This is the only way I know to clear the good name of all concerned. I have never at any time or place or under any circum- stances committeed a criminal act.” Brehm is the third member of the House to face federal charges in recent years. J. Parnell Thomas, former Re- publican from New Jersey, was re- leased from prison last September after serving eight and a half months for padding his office pay- roll. Andrew J. May, who was con- victed of conspiracy and bribery in war munitions dealings while a Representative from Kentucky, also was released last September. He had served nine months and 13 days. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 20 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 193%, American Tel. and Tel. 150%, | Anaconda 38%, Douglas Aircraft 19214, General Electric 49, General Motors 45%, Goodyear 63%, Kenne- jcott 75%, Libby McNeill and Libby 9, Northern Pacific 33%, Standard Oil of California 83%, Twentieth Century Fox 21, US. Steel 42%, Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange 94.50, Sales today were 3,500,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 231.20, rails 77.74, utilities 38.97. SEATTLE GUEST stopping at the Baranof Hotel. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 — ® — | Catherine H. Nelson of Seattle is | 53 000,000 Discrepancy Is Disclosed | Senator-Elect Engstrom Finds Additional Deficit in Estimated Revenues Senator-elect Elton E. Engstrom today called attention to a dis- | crepancy of $3,000,000 in the antici- pated revenues of the Territory for the 1951-53 biennium as listed in the Report of the Territorial Board of Budget. “The Budget report shows a deficit | of $567,561.28 and to this should be added $3,000,000 more,” Mr. strom said. “The report of the Board of Bud- get reached me Monday. On exami- nation of the Department of Taxa- tion statement of anticipated reve- nues for the forthcoming biennium I find a deficit erro of $3,000,000,” said the Senator-elect today. “I first noticed this discrepancy because I am in the fish business. In Eng- | the Department of Taxation’s esti- mate of revenue for the biennium April 1, 1951 to March 31, 1953, there are two entries of $3,000,000 each. One is for “Fish Processors and Raw Fish.” Then there is listed a “license tax for salmon canneries.” Both are shown to yield revenues of | $3.000,000—each. “As a fresh fish broker. I knew that figure shown was too high. “I talked personally with Mr, Mullaney, the Tax Commissioner, and he admitted the error in the figures furnished the Board of Bud- get by the Tax Department,” Mr Engstrom said. Mr. Engstrom called the atten- tion of the reporter to the fact that the deficit as he disclosed it today, and that the total appropriation bill of the 1939 Legislature amounted to $3,511,510, for the 1939-40 bien- nium. CONTROLS ON RENTS EXTENDED WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 — # — President Truman to signed le- gislation extending existing rent controls to March 31, 1951 The 90-day extension was voted by Congress at Mr. Truman’s re- quest. The idea is to give the in- coming Congress time to review the national housing picture in the light of changed conditions created by the defense emergency. Without the interim extension, rent controls would have expired Dec. 31 except in those communi- ties acting to retain them until June 30. The extension signed by Mr. Tru- man also simplifies decontrol pro- cedure. It provides that a municipality may abolish controls by a simple resolution of its city council. This provision stemmed from a decontrol controversy arising out of an action of the Los Angeles City Council. ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 o 0 WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Perlod ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 40; minithum, 29. At Airport—Maximum, 35; minimum, 24, FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mixed snow and rain to- night becoming mostly inter- mittent rain Thursday. Low temperature tonight near 34 and high Thursday near 38. PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 = m. today City of Juneau—0.01 inches; since Dec. 1 — 2,54 inches; since July 1—35.78 inches. At Airport — 0.03 inches; since Dec. 1 — 1.88 inches; since July 1—25.00 inches. ® ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 KETCHIKAN VISITOR George Bobner of Ketchikan is iswnpmg at the Gastincau Hotel. amounts to a little over $3,500,000 | OPPOSE ~ TROOPS, EUROPE formation Before Send- ing Soldiers Abroad WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 — ® — | Opposition arose in Congress today to any speedy transfer of additional American ground troops to Europe. President Truman's announce- ment that more U.S. soldiers will be sent across the Atlantic as soon as possible brought demands from law- makers for: 1—Detailed information on other nations’ troop pledges to the new combined Western European De- fense Force; and 2—Assurances that the United States will not be stripped of mili- tary reserves at home. Senators of both parties said Sec- retary of State Acheson and Secre- tary of the Army Pace will be called on by Congressional com- mittees to report on these points immediately after their returr from the Brussels conference. The 12 Foreign Ministers of the| Atlantic Pact Nations have agreed to try to assemble under the com- mand of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower a 1,000,000-man force by the end of 1953 to guard Western Europe against possible Soviet aggression i President Truman told a news conference yesterday he will know today—but won’t make the infor- mation public—how many Ameri- can troops eventually will be in- volved. ‘There has been speculation that five to 10 or more divisions may be sent to Europe in addition to the approximately 100,000 men already there. Senator George (D-Ga),.a mem- ther of the Foreign Relations Com- mittee, told a reporter he think: Congress will want to know befor a single soldier climbs aboard a ! transport just what Westernt Euro- pean nations propose to do abouf helping defend themselves. PROTECTION OF WESTERN WORLD PLAN {West Germany May Ask for Greater Part in Int. Military Proposal BRUSSELS, Belgium, —West Germans made the Big Three today that they want more than they have been joffered, in return for taking pnrtI in an international military organi- | aztion to protect the western world, The Atlantic Council decision will go before the' West German govern- ment soon, and the Germans likely will drive a sharp bargain Bonn dispatches said the three Allied High Commissioners for Ger-} many probably would meet tomor- row with Konrad Adenauer, the West German Republic’s Chancel- lor (Premier), to inform him of the results of the conference which placed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower at the head of a projected interna- tional army of 1,000,600, to include German units. Members of Adenauer's own dom- inant party, the Christian Demo- | crats, predicted negotiations over Germany’s role in the western army would be long drawn-out. A press statement issued by the party said it would be some time before the federal government would be able to take a definite stand Here in Brussels, where the 12 member nations of the Atlantic Pact reached their historic deci- sions yesterday, it was reported that the Germans might be offered rej resentation on Gen. Eisenhower's staff, but would not be allowed either a Foreign Ministry or a De- fense Mitfistry of their own—ac least not for the time being. The Atlantic Pact nations are the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Italy. Dec. 20—® it clear to Por-| | poristae, | ;(ongress Wants More In-| | berthed at Swan Warshlps Blasi E?( Bombardment by U. N, warships, augmenved by U. I L STATUTE MILES . battleship Missouri, and field artillery (bomb bursts) kept at bay masses of Red Chinese infantry pressing Hunnam (sawtooth line), against U. in northeast Korea. NJs tiny beachhead at An estimated 25,000 Chinese were at the beachhead rim with gnother estimated 75000 moving up from the west and northwest (open arrows).. (P Wire- pholo. Four F-86 Sabre jets fly a tight formation in a training flight over the California desert. of Aliied air men with a victory five-minute aerizl dogf shot down and the oth border. Photo via (P Wirephoto. fled to t over North Korea. The Sabres are the world’s fastest planes. U, Four planes of the same type won the praise over four Russian-built jets in a One Red plane was the sanetuary of the Manchurian 8. Air Force OIL CARGO LOST (N ALASKA IS CAUSE OF SUIT PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 20— —A $307415 suit, claiming loss of an oil cargo, was filed in federal court here today by Oceanic Fish- eries Company, Inc., Seattle, against | Kotzebue Oil Sales, Inc., an Alaskan concern. Oceanic claimed in the suit that| Kotzebue, under contract to carry | oil from Alaska to Seattle, dis-| patched the oil aboard the barge | Arctic Chief, towed by the tug John Michael. The towline broke and| the entire cargo—including 223760\ gallons of herring oil, 19,000 gallons of salmon oil and 190,000 gallons of condensed fish soluble—was lost, the complaint charged. The loss occurred Nov. year, the suit charged. Oceanic also filed an attachment against the tug Sergeant H. L. Wal- lace and its equipment. The tug, Island, belongs Seattle firm 26 this | to Kotzebue, the | claimed. ‘;wgal, Iceland and Norway 29 FLY WITH PACIFiC 'NORTHERN TUESDAY Twelve travelers lcn Juneau yes- | terday on Pacific and 17 arrived here age, To Anchorage: Dr. R Paul Sutton, Steve Kie, ler, M. Nelson, Eremond Polejewski, Bruce Baptic, John McCormick, Robert Jones and William Black. L D.J Smith, Weh- To Cordova: Otto Elf From Anchorage: Smith, . Thomas, A. Van Buren, J. M. Snodderly, John Noyes, Alice Tapley, Sid Lundwal, aney, and. M. M. Flint JIM NORDALI Now HOME FOR CHRISTMAS | strom w. son, Gus Swan- Riley, M P. Jim Nordale, son of Mrs, ine Nordale of Juneau, arrived here this week to spend the Christ- mas holidays with his mother and his sister Mary., He is a at St. Martins near Lacey, Wash. Kather- Northern Airlines | from Anchor- | student | ‘RED FORCES HELD BACK 1 BY GUNFIRE Allies Making Desperate Attempt to Escape from Dwindling Beachhead (By the Associated Press) Thundering guns from ships and shore held back Communist forces pressing on the tiny Hungnam | beachhead today while the Allied | withdrawal in northeast.Korea was proceeding according to plan. General MacArthur's headquar- ters in Tokyo announced a new form of censorship asking that news dispatches and photographs be sub- mitted for security .screening and ! clearance by military authorities. | The order went into immediate ef- fect. Previously there had been 'only voluntary censorship on the part of correspondents covering the war. Beachhead Shrinks ! The shrinking Hungnam beach- Ihead was brilliantly illuminated by |star shells from warships in the harbor. Doughboys now hold a rela- tuvely small slice of land only a few miles square in area around the harbor. A total of 25,000 enemy troop pushing against fhe line with an- other 75,000 ready to move up. Cor- respondents reported a force of 8,000 North Koreans in new uni- torms’ Are fighting on the east arc of the perimeter where the n | pressure is being exerted by ( Reds. Hordes Creep Closer small penetrations quickly repulsed with the aid of artillery and naval gunfire and hard-hitting carrier based plane: ' But there was no way of telling how long the United Nations forces could hold off the hordes creeping Their were | ever closer to the Allied toehold on the beach. Maj, Gen. Edward M. Almond, commander of the 10th Corps, said he was satisfied witht the battle waged by his men and their naval surface and “flying artillery” sup- port. Nearby Yonpo '\irfxol(l was aban- doned preventing .evacuation of wounded by air. But the wounded were rushed to the water's edge in Jeeps and taken in small craft to \a waiting hospital ship offshore. West Korea Front United Nations forces in west Korea fought minor engagements with North Koreans around parallel 138. Most of the fighting was near Chunchon, 45 miles northeast of Seoul and 10 miles south of the border. General MacArthur's communique said: “It is evident from the indica- tions of North Korean corps argani- zation that a very large buildup of Korean Communist forces has been and is in progress. A potential of at least 15 divisions, possibly con- siderably more, is planned, as evi- denced by the existence of at least five, and possibly more, North Ko- rean corps organizations, a head- qluru*wv unit mdlmuve n{ planning C. T. Manning Federal Communi- cations Commission auditor from | Anchorage, is stopping at the Hotel Andrew Johnson, | A. McCormick, , Vanderweel, | V. O. Mount, Col.| George | Mull- | SHOPPING DAYS ' TILL CHRISTMAS