The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,689 “ALL TIIE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSD AY, ALL THE TIME” DECEMBER 21, 1950 MEMBER ASSOC IA'I ED P I;F“\\ PRICE TF.N CENT% Red Attacks Hurled Back At UN Beacnhead LONG RAIL DISPUTE 1§ ENDED NOW Wage Boost Is Granfed fo About 300,000 Men- 3-Year Peace Pact ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 — P — The months-long dispute between the railroads*® and four big rail unions was settled today with agree- ment on a three-year peace pact granting pay boosts to about 300,000 workers. The agreement, calling cost of living adjustments in wages may set a pattern for the govern- ment’s wage stabilization policies since it was hammered out under government sponsorship. The settlement was anounced at the White House by Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman after a 26-hour overnight session with union leaders and railroad repre- sentatives. Steelman has been handling the negotiations since the government seized the roads last August to avert a nationwide strike. The agreement still must be rati- fied by union bargaining commit- tees but quick acceptance is ex- pected. Daniel P. Loomis, chairman of the railroad negotiators, estimated the wage increases—ranging up to 23 cents hourly—will* cost the about $130,000,000 a year year. Steelman said the union had agreed to forego any further wage demands for a three-year period. He called it a “no strike” agreement but President D. B. Robertson of the Firemen and J. P. Shields of the Engineers said they were mnot actually writing such a clause into the contract. They did agree they were remov- ing the causes of strikes, however, by committing their unions to a moratorium on further wage and hour demands. also for Besides the firemen and engineers, | the pact covers the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors. The provision for cost-of-living adjustments in wages, pegged to the | rise and fall of the government'’s cost-of-living index, parallels sim- ilar agreements already in effect in the auto industry. ANCHORAGE VISITOR E. F. Hickok of Anchorage registered at the Baranof Hotel. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali scheduled to sail from Se- attle tomorrow afternoon. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver December 30. Baranof from west scheduled to arrive Sunday morning southbound. The Washington Merry - Go- Bound Copyright, 195, by Bell Syuaicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON e ASHINGTON — White House policy can change overnight, but for the present we have no inten- tion of mobilizing the vast but disorganized army of anti-Com- munist guerrilas in China. Presi- dent Truman so advised a group of Congressmen at an off-the-re- cord and very candid meeting last week. Truman also is holding firm to his resolve not to drop the atomic bomb in ‘China or Korea. “That doesn’t mean that we are appeasing the Chinese Communist§ —far from it,” Truman told his callers. “They are aggressors and we will continue to treat them as such.” Truman added that if British Prime Minister Clement Attlee came with any appeasement no- tions, he left without them. He agreed with Attlee, hoewver, that if we used would seize the opportunity to re- taliate against London, Berlin and!® Paris. But the argument that carried | the most weight with him, Tru- man explained, was that we should not atom-bomb Russian satellites | in reprisal against the Kremlin. Regarding the question of arming (Continued on Page Four) roads ; the A-bomb, Russia | appearance of the two since the ening to beat up a Washington Father and Daughfer g ! fense spending and gave approval President Truman looks every inch the proud papa as he clasps an arm around his dzughter Margaret at “Father and Daughter” dinner at the National Press Club in Washington. It was the first public President wrote the letter threat- Post music critic for saying his daughter Margaret's voice was flat. (#) Wirephoto. To Sand STALINIS PRAISED ON All Kinds omnases Used Used by Press - Gets Barbed Wire Wreath (By the Associated Press) Today is Joseph Stalin’s birthday -he’s T1—and while his controlled press at home once again hailed him in extravagant prose, Com- munists in the ring of states around Russia plled out all the stops at- tempting to outdo each other in praising him. In Moscow, East Berlin, Prague, Sofia, Bucharest, Budapest and varsaw, the Communist press chorused the praise of the man in ithe Kremlin in phrases like these: “Greatest scientist of our time. “Leader of the world peace camp.” “Defender of the worker.” “Great genius Stalin.” But Stalin had one gift from Western Berlin to mull over. An or- ganization called “The Fighting Troup Against Inhumanity” wrote that they wanted to remind him of the German prisoners of war still in the Soviet Union. They sent him a wreath made of barbed wire. © 00 0 0 ¢ 0 00 WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 40; minimum, 30. At Airport—Maximum, 37; e minimum 30. e |e FORECAST . (Juneau and Vicinity) | Snow tonight becoming | @ partly cloudy Friday. Low | @ temperature tonight near 32. | @ Slightly colder Friday. e PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a,m. today |e City of Juneau—020 inches; |e since Dec. 1 — 2.74 inches; | ® since July 1—35.98 inches. At Airport — 0.19 inches; e since Dec. 1 — 207 inches; e since July 1—25.19 inches. e @ © o o o o o e o BIRTH DATE Thousand Korean Stree! Orphans Are Air-Lifted uary on Island SEOUL, Dec. 21—-P—Nearly a thousand big-eyed little Korean ‘<uept orphans have been air-lifted o an island sanctuary off South Korea in “Operation Kiddie Car.” Fifteen twin-engine American | transport planes landed at nearby | Kimpo Air Base to fly the war waifs out of the combat zone. Truck after truck rolled up loaded | kids in all, ranging in age from six months to 11 years. Most had been saved from gutter death by kind- hearted American troops who found them wandering or lying abandoned on the streets of Seoul. Scores of small pilgrims of dis- tress were covered with sores and their bodies were still shrunken from starvation. Some gestured at their mouths to show' their hunger and mumbled “chop chop.” The planes carried a 15-day Supply of rations. SPECIAL SESSION OF COUNCIL POSTPONED Due to the pressure of personal business the special meeting of the Juneau City Council scheduled for tonight has been postpened until after Christmas, Mayor Waino Hen- drickson said today. The next regu- lar council meeting falls on Janu- ary 5. OUTSIDE FOR HOLIDAYS Mrs. Frank Rouse, staff member |of the Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Association, is leaving Friday | for Seattle where she will spend the Christmas holidays with rela- tives. She plans to return to Ju- |neau shortly after the first of the year. First Woman fo Be Elected U. §. Senale s Dead WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 — (B — Ist Hattie W. Caraway, 72, of Ar- | kansas, first woman ever elected to the United States Senate, died to- day at White Hall Sanitarium at Falls Church, Va. Mrs. Caraway was a member of | the Federal Employees’ Compensa= ;tion Appeals Board at the time of her death. She was a Senator for slightly more than 13 years during the ad- ministration of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. with children and backed up to the: |open plane doors. There were 964 ((ONGRESS SPEEDING SPENDING WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 — (® — Working at top speed, the Senate today voted $20,000,000,000 for de- for $1,600,000,000 of special defense | construction. much of it top secret. | Both measures were passed by voice votes. ‘The $1,600,000,000 authorization measure goes on to President Tru- | man. The House passed it yester- | day. | The big appropriation bill, a catch-all for funds asked by Presi- dent Truman since Communist Chi- nese forces surged into Korea, goes back to the House. As the bill cleared the Senate it carried some $2,000,000,000 more than voted by the House. These dif- ferences are expected to be ad- justed quickly. Senator Russell (D-Ga), acting | chairman of the Armed Services | committee, asked the Senate to put through the authorization bill hrst In still another move to put the nation on a war footing, the Sen- ate passed and sent to the House a bill restoring President Truman’s | wartime powers to renegotiate de- fense contracts. Action was on a voice vote. As approved, the bill was stripped of authority asked by the President to create, transfer and abolish emergency government agencies. The spending bill, Russell ex- plained, contains the money for more than 90 percent of the pro- jects in the authorization bill, KOREA CASUALTIES | INCREASED BY OVER 12,000 IN RETREAT! 1 TOKYO, Dec. 21— (M —General MacArthur’s headquarters said to- day American casualties in the worst fortnight of retreat in Korea totaled 11,964 killed, wounded and missing. It said other United Na- tions forces from abroad suffered 1,011 casualties in that period. The total of 12,975 did not include ! Republic of Korea losses. Headquarters said field com- ! manders reported Chinese Red loss- es at a ratio of 10 to 1—a total of more than 120,000. The period was dated Nov. 27- Dec. 12, but the total also included | relatively small losses suffered dur- ing UN probing attacks beginning Nov. 24.” 'The Defense Department an- nounced Nov. 30 in Washington that American casualties in Korea since the war began had reached a total of 31,028, saying this re- presented ‘all whose next of kin who had been notified through Nov. 12. This indicated that Ameri- can casuaities through Dec. 12 wére in excess of 42,000. The Washington list showed 5,- 1307 dead, 21,114 wounded and 4- 611 missing. The new MacArthur headquarters summary today did not break down its casualty figures to show how many were killed, wounded or missing. Hardest hit was the U. S. Army which | Second Infantry Division suffered 4,131 casualties during what MacArthur called the “report- orial ‘disaster’ period.” The Second Division played a major role in blunting the Chinese Red counter- offensive on the northwest front. NO SOURDOCEY DANCE The Sourdocey Square Dancing Club will not meet on Saturday, December 23, according to an- nouncement. WINTER SOLSTICE 2:14 A. M. FRIDAY ‘Tomorrow winter reaches its halfway point in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice oceurring in Juneau at 2:14 am., (PST), according to com- putations made at the local U.S. Weather Bureau Station. Friday, December 22, is the shortest day in the year, the sun appearing on the horizon o0 evc0eccccccsece at 9:45 am. and disappearing from view at 4:06 p.m. & day of six hours and 21 minutes. ® 6 0 0 0 0 00 Marine Burial (eremcny This Is a general view showing row after row of Marine crosses at solémn burial ceremony at Hungnam, North Korea, of boys who will not be home for Christmas. Marine firing squad in background. Wir('pllutn via radie from Tokyo. Fight Leoms 'Hoover Calls on Nation fo Arm fo Teeth; Opposes Sending Troops fo Europe On Proposals Hoover Makes IDemo Pariyl_eaders Avoid Comment - GOP Leader Wherry Gives Views WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 — (® — A new Congressional battle loomed today over former President Hoo- ver’s proposals to shorten Amerjca’s defense lines and arm the Navy and Air Force “to the teeth” to defend the nation’s Atlantic and Pacific frontiers. Republican Senate Leader Wherry of Nebraska said Hoover's pro- posals “collide directly with thos of President Truman and Congress | and the public must decide who is right.” Most Democratic party leaders avoided Senator Lehman (D-NY) said: appears to me to be a plea for a return to complete isolationism. If | we followed President Hoover's sug- | gestion, we would find ourselves opinjon that the atomic bomb is isolated and without any friends in i the world.” Senators of both parties agreed on one thing—that last night” broadcast proposals by the onl living former President would ech in Congress for some time (o come. Bluntly calling the United Na- tions-U.S. efforts in Kor feat, Mr. Hoover ' warned “another Korea” in Western Europe if this country feeds men and money there before the European | countries organize their own de- fense. Many Republicans in Congress were quick to cheer; Hoover's sharp dissent, from the Truman-Acheson | policy. Senator Taft (R-Ohio), chairman of the Senate GOP Policy Commft- tee, told a reporter he agrees with “many of the general principles Hoover stated. CANADIAN TOWX IS HIT HARD BY FOUR-HOUR BLAZE RYLEY, Alta, Dec. 21— foot-long wall of fire wiped out virtually all business buildings on one side of this northern Alberta town's main street last night Hundreds of firefighters from 10 nearby communities battled the fierce blaze for four hours before bringing it under control Mayor John Kordich the loss at $250,000. Only one n, an unidentified garage mechanic, was injured. He was hospitalized for treatment of ated e | burns, immediate comment but . “It | A 20- NEW YORK, Dec. 214M—Fm‘mer {President Herbert Hoover urged the nation last night to concentrate on | fortifying the Western Hemisphere as a “Gibraltar.” | He called on his rellow-country-' men to “arm to the teeth” to hold | the Atlantic and Pacific Ocl'ans,' with the island outposts of Britain, Japan, Formosa and the Philippines. Mr. Hoover, speaking on radio and television, said it would be “sheer | folly” to engage in land war with Communist hordes in Asia or the ‘,cmmnem of Europe. | He urged the United States to| Arm our air and naval forces to | |the teeth” to defend the frontier | he laid out. Washington vs Moscow Mr. Hoover said the Communists could never break through American |sea and air power to invade the Western Hemisphere, “They can'no {more reach Washington in force |than we can reach Moscow,” he de- clared. At another point, he expressed the |“a far less dominant weapon than |it was once thought to be.” The only living ex-President, aking one of the most 1mporv.ant§ ddresses of his long public career, | aid “it is clear that the United [Nations are defeated in Korea.” | It would be “inviting another Ko- l rea,” he declared, to send mme \Lroops or money to Western Euro- | | pean nations before they had armed | | themselves as a “sure dam nvamat‘ | the Red flood.” | Defense Up To Europe Defense of western continental |Europe rests primarily on the | European nations themselves, the 76-year-old former chief executive told his audiences across the na- | tion. | “We have little need for large rmies unless we are going to | Europe or ‘China,” he said. Land | war with the Communist m: 8 in Asia or Western Europe “would be the grayeyard of millions oX! American boys and would end in the | exhaustion of this Gibraltar of | western civilization.” STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 21 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 92'%, American Tel. and Tel. }50%, Anaconda 37%, Dougl Aircraft 92%, General Electric 48'z, General Motors 45%, Goodyear 64%, Kenne- cott 74%, Libby McNeill and Libby 87, Northern Pacific 33, Standard Oil of California 847%, Twentieth Century Fox 21, U.S. Steel 41, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange 94.50. Sales today were 2,990,000 shares. Averages today are as follow dustrials 23138, rails 77.35, utilities | 39.93. | Dwight D. Eisenhower as Supreme | attacked its defense rim., | is | [ » Mr. Hoover smd western Furope’m nations should arm themselves with combat divisions of “huge numbers” before the United States lands “an- |other man or another dollar on their shores.” His demand for a new foreign arms policy came one day after President yTruman named Gen. Commander of western European forces and said, additional U.S. troops would be sent there as soon as possible. Mr. Hoover said his sugdested foreign policy would make it pos- sible for this country to carry on indefinitély, even if the Communists ALASKA PROJECTS 10 GET FUNDS O REQUEST OF ARMY WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-—(P—A partial listing by locations of §320,- 164,000 of Army public works pro- jects for which immediate funds are asked became available today The list was sent to the Senate in support of the Army's request for emergency money in the pend- UN FORCES HOLDING AT Warships, Planes, Arillery Hurl Back Red Attacks— Frozen Bodies Tell Tale (By the Associated Press) Heavy pounding of Communist lines by United Nations warships, plar.; and artillery has driven back the Reds' most menacing at- tack on the Hungnam beachhead. The withdrawal of Allied forces from northeast Korea was pro=- ceeding according to the UN. com- mand’s time table. Comparative - quiet was reported on both the Hungnam perimeter and on the west Korean front where the US. Eighth army is holding a line near the 38th parallel. General MacArthur said Com- | munist losses of 10 to one compared Ivm.h Allied casualties had notice- "\b!v slowed down the enemy ppera- | tions. He disclosed that U.N. casualties during the general retreat since Nov. 27 following the intervention of Chinese Reds totaled nearly 13,000. These included killed, wounded and missing for all Allied | forces except those of the Republic of Korea. Censorship A form of censorship was im- posed on correspondents yesterday by. the U.N. command. Dispatches from the Hungnam beachhead sald the MCommunists were thrown back from the eastern | sector which had been the point of gravest peril to the defenders. But warships continued to hammer away at Red troop concentrations north' of the beachhead. Terrific Bombardment Frozen bodies of Chinese and white-robed, Korean Reds littered the snow-crusted east flank. The Communist survivors apparently were numbed to a standstill by the furious round-the-clock bombard- ment, A high-ranking spokesman at MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters denied reports that the Communists had used gas grenades against U.N. troops at Hungnam. The report, he said, was wholly unconfirmed and doubted at headquarters because the Chinese Communists had no training in gas warfare and did not have gas masks. ' Red Reinforcements In reviewing the retreat from Northwest Korea, General MacAr- thur said it “was not dictated by battle losses” or the acceptance of defeat. He said the Allied forces, numbering four corps of 12 divisions, were stacked up against nine Chi- nese corps of 27 divisions with mas- sive reinforcements across the Yalu river in Manchuria. ( i ] |ing $20,000,000,000 appropriation bill, It included these Alaska projects: Fairbanks, $4,253,400. Fort Rich- ardson, Anchorage, $3,661,100. Whit- tier, $5,198,900. The bill as approved by the House and the Senate Appropria- tions ‘Committee included the full amounts requested by the Armed Services for warehouses, - utilities, laboratories, expansion of air fields and other facilities. These totaled $320,164,000 for the Army, $303,378,000 for the Navy and $807,000,000 for the Air Force. The totals included funds for projects outside the United States and for a number of secret under- | takings, A bill to authorize the moving through Congress al- most simultaneously with the Em- ergency Appropriation Bill. The two measures are not identical in amount because the Armed Services are not asking at this time for all the money which is in the process of being authorized. A number of projects. will take a number of years to complete, and thus funds for them will be included in a num- ber of appropriation bills. - Air Force spokesmen told the Housing Appropriations Committee projects | High Official of Lengshore Union Barred from Docks (By Associated Press) A one-time high official in the Longshore Union has been banished from military docks. San Francisco Army and Navy authorities have barred 51-year-old Henry Schmidt. He was a co-de- fendant Wwith Longshore leader Harry Bridges in Bridges’ perjury trial. They were convicted last April and are free on bail pend- ing appeal. the Air Force did not want its pro- | jects made public. The Army list became avallfible{ | today but with the proviso that no details be given—only the location and amount, | SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS