The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 22, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL TIIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,690 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDA \' DECEMBER 22, 1950 Mlu.\H ER ASSOCI/ \’l'l' D l RL.\S JENTS I‘KI(‘F. TEN C — Cease-Fire in Korea Is ACHESON 15 10 BE QUIZZED Will Be Ou-efioned Con- | cerning Agreements at Brussels Conference WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — ® — Secretary of State Acheson faced searching questions today on American troop commitments in Europe and whether other United Nations members will furnish Korea reinforcements. Acheson goes before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this afternoon to report on agreements reached at the Brussels Conference on Atlantic Pact defenses for west- ern Europe. Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee were in- vited to attend. President Truman said, after a White House conference with Ache- son yesterday that within the next few weeks the soldiers of the pact nations will begin training together “for the defense of the free world.” Truman’s Views The President added that the ap- pointment of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower as supreme commander “greatly heartened and inspired the European nations, who see in it new proof of the firm intentions of the free nations to stand together.” The President didn't mention American troop commitments in his | statement, but members of Con- gress made it plain that is the point of most interest to them in the new setup. To Question Agreements Senator Lodge (R-Mass), who just finished a tour of duty as a United Nations delegate, told a re- porter in advance of the meeting he intended to question Acheson closely about any agreements that may have been made at Brussels to send additional foot soldiers to Europe. Lodge, a former. Foreign Relations Committeeman, said he also wants to know what, if any, arrangements have been made to replace some of the U.S. forces fighting in Korea with those of other members of the UN. Petershurg Plans Pradiice "Alert” PETERSBURG, Alaska, Dec. 22— (P—This Southeast Alaska town is planning a practice “alert” and blackout test under its new home | defense program. Quentin DeBoer heads the organization. The Washington Merry - Go-Round Copyright, 1953, by Bell Synalcate, Ine.! By DREW PEARSON ‘ASHINGTON — A top-secreb study of anti-Communist guerrilla strength in China 1s being rushed to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in case of more serious difficulties with the Chinese 'Communists. Highlights of this study are: 1. China is infested with unor- ganized, roaming bands of ex-Na- tionalist troops, dispossessed land- lords, and thousands of Chinese driven by hunger to steal and loot for food. They are.not coordinated and often scrap with each other over the spoils. The estimated num- ber of anti-Communist “bandits,” as the Peking government calls them, is around 1,500,000. 2, China’s Communist boss, Mao tse-Tung, has reversed his policy of “education” for non-Commun- its and ordered a drastic reign of terror against them. The drive is called the “bandit suppression campaign of the people’s dictator- ship.” Martial law has been declar- ed in five provinces and wholesale arrests are being made in such cities as Shanghai, Tsingtao, Chun- king and Canton. A recent announcement by Pe- king, for example, claimed 13,063 “pandits exterminated” in Chekiang province during the campaign, and the seisure of stores of rifles, rock- | et guns and machine guns. 3. The only well-organized guer- rillas are units of the Nationalist SR AT (S s (Continued on Page Four) SALMON INDUSTRY PUZILED sents Many Import- ant Problems SEATTLE, Dec. 22—{®—The re- cent price rollback has the salmon industry puzzled. \ Jack Green, president of wamc‘ the industry’s concern is not so much with the 1950 pack as with the forthcoming 1951 pack. He asked: “What is the government going| to expect of us in the way of pric- | ing our product when we already | are signed up with the vm'ious; unions for a 12 to 12 percent labor | cost increase on next year’s pack| and the price of cans is slated to| go up 15 percent as a result of the| recent boost in steel prices follow- ing the latest wage increase grants in that industry? “If we are to hold prices to the| Dec. 1 level what about the new labor contracts calling for higher wages next year? What about the, boost in can prices on next year's pack?” He said there was a remote pos-| sibility the industry could get by in| the event of a tremendous pack that | would have the effect of reducing unit costs. - | “But the cold, realistic likelihood | is that the salmon industry will have to go to Washington for re- lief if the pack has to be sold at the Dec. 1 level.” FORMER TRUMAN AID RELEASED ON POSITIVE ORDERS | ASHLAND, Ky., Dec. 22—{P—Ed- ward F. Prichard, Jr., Paris, Ky., at-| torney and former administrative aid under President Roosevelt, wask released from the Federal Correc-: jtional Institution near here last| night on orders of President Tru- man. Warden R. O. Culver said Prich- | ard’s two-year sentence was com- | muted by the President to the time already served. The 35-year-old attorney entered | the prison last July 14 after con- viction of ballot box stuffing in‘ | Bourbon county in the 1948 Presi- | dential election. Warden Culver said the text of the order received yesterday Imm James V. Bennett, director of fed- | eral prisons, said: “The President has commuted the | sentence of Edward F. Prichard to the time already served. He may be released immediately.” Reports of Prichard’s release cir- culated last night in his home town. {In response to questions, Warden Culver said earlier this morning, | «He'’s gone. T had instructions from my superiors to release him.” DEERSKINS ARE NEEDED FOR U. . . FORCES IN ARCTIC NEW YORK, Dec. 22—M—The Tanners Council of America said today the Army needs deerskins for combat troops in Arctic climates. The need is so great, the council said, that game-hunting states are being asked to reopen or extend their deer seasons. “The Army Quar'.ermnswr Corps has found that only gloves made from native deerskin give combat troops protection and freedom of action necessary under battle condi- tions in Arctic climates,” the coun- cil said in a statement. TWINING IS NOW 4-STAR GENERAL WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — (B — The Senate has confirmed a full four-star General rank for Na- Lhnn Farragut Twining, former Air Force Lieutenant General recently named Vice Chief of Staff. He was former Commander in Chief of the| Recent Price Rollback Pre- Fisheries, said in an interview today \ | level | the Baranof Hotel. |Alaskan Command. IOURNAMENT OUEEN | ;7 ‘ s s AR | Eleanor Payne (above), 17, has been named Queen of the 1951 Tournament of Roses. A com- mercial art student at Pasadena, Calif., City College. she has brown hair and blue green eyes. She will preside over Tournament fes- tivities Jan. 1, 1951, including the | Rose Bowl game between Cali- fornia and Michigan, (P Wire- photo. 'CORPORATION TAX BOOST APPROVED, JOINT COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — (P — A House-Senate Conference Com- mittee today approved unanimously a $3,300,000,000 boost in corporation | taxes including a 77 percent levy on | excess profits. The legislation would increase America’s tax load to the highest in history—$45,000,000,000 ori \ more. The previous record of federal tax | collection was set in wartime 1945 | when the government took in $43,- 900,000,000. Following closely on the heels of last September’s bill boosting both | individual and corporation taxes, the new measure is intended to pro- vide more billions for defense and | curb profiteering, and check in- lation. While the committee-approved measure comprises separate bills passed by the Senate and House, final Congressional action has been delayed until Jan. 1. That's because (the House, for all practical pur- has quit work until after the Christmas holidays. The Senate, however, prove the bill later today. RIS B B may ap- e o 0 0o e o 0 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 38; minimum, 31. ] ! At Airport—Maximum, 36; @ minimum, 32. e . ol FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) . Mostly cloudy with inter- e mittent rain tonight and Sat- @ I urday. Low temperature to- @ night near 32 and high Sat- urday near 38. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—032 inches; since Dec. 1 — 3.06 inches; since July 1—36.30 inches. At Airport — 0.14 inches; since Dec. 1 — 221 inches; since July 1—25.33 inches. e o o 00 0o & o 0 CONDITIONS GIVEN ON B!G FOUR MEET PROPOSED BY REDS PARIS, Dec. 22—M—The West- ern Powers agreed today to a Big Four meeting proposed by Russia, if the Kremlin will agree to broaden the agenda to include outstanding: world problems in addition to Ger- many. Foreign office sources said notes delivered in Moscow tonight suggested that the four powers’ U.N. Delegates work out the agenda, time and place for the meeting. FROM SITKA ! James C. Rinehart of Sitka is at Fox 20%, U.S. Steel 40%. *_/ACTION ON DEFENSE 1§ SPURRED UP Grim Warning Concerning Russian Atomic Energy Is Recognized WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — ® — Congressional “action on the multi- | billion dollar defense program was spurred today by a grim warning that Russia is making “an intensive effort” in the field of atomic energy. Expert testimony on the Russian atomic program came from Chair- man Gordon Dean of the Atomic Energy Commission. Originally given behind closed-doors it was made public by the Senate Appro- priations Committee. Dean told of Russia’s activity, ana filled in some details of this na- tion’s expanding atomic production, in testifying on the $20,000,000,000 emergency defense money bill. This measure steamed through the Sen- ate yesterday at a wartime clip. And it carried some $2,000,000,000 more than the House voted. Bills In Conference A Senate-House conference group meets today to iron out differences in the two bills. Speedy agreement was expected Other fast-moving developments in the nation’s rearmament pro- gram: 1. Secretary of the Air Force Fin- letter told Senators that the nation lacks “an absolute air defense” against possible atomic attacks. The | best defense would be to attack the bases of the enemy, he said, adding quickly that he was not “recom- | mending a preventive war.” 2. Secretary of Defense Marshall said that this country must tool up at once for another world war, even | though we hope it will not come. 3. Navy officials disclosed that this country plans to turn over half a dozen or mere cruisers to some South American countries, probably Brazil and Chile, and possibly Ar- gentina. 4. Gen. Clifton B. Cates, com- mandant of the Marine Corps, sug- gested that Marine strength be { boosted to twice the 18 squadrons and two full-war strength divisions, currently planned. 5. Navy spokesmen expressed con- fidence that “we have sufficient strength” to handle any Russian submarine action which might be launched off Korea. 6. Military leaders estimated that ! defense costs already nearing $45,- 000,000,000 for the fiscal year end- ing next June 30 may continue near that rate for some years in the { future. The Senate committee published the testimony on the emergency de- fense measure after deleting many sections for military security. Testimony by AEC officials dis- closed that this country’s expanding atomic energy program “involves at least six new sif They mentioned a “new gaseous | diffusion plant” at Paducah, Ky., and another “new type plant” near Savannah, Ga. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 22 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 93%, American Tel. and Tel 150%, Anaconda 39, Douglas Arcraft 93%, General Electric 46%, General Mo- tors 45%, Goodyear 647%, Kennecott 73%, Libby McNeill and Libby 9, Northern Pacific 32%, Standard | ou] of California 87, Twentieth Century Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange 94.56%. Sales today were 2,720,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 23154, rails 76.84, utilities 40.07. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali scheduled to sail from Se- attle at 5 p.m. today. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver December 30. Baranof from west scheduled to arrive at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, south- bound. . HEINMILLERS HERE Mr. and Mrs. Car! Heinmiller of Port Chilkoot are in Juneau to spend the holidays. They are at the Baranof Hotel, Spurned By Red China CHRISTMAS EXODUS IN CONGRESS {Emergency ggislalion Ap-| pears Stranded-Other Cheering News WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — (B — Caught in a home-for-Christmas | exodus, a major portion of Presi- | dent Truman's emergency mobiliza- tion Jegislation appeared stranded today until at least Jan. 1. The holiday jam of absenteeism caused House leaders to sidetrack ;n('mm on bills to (1) give the Presi- | dent wider powers to speed the mo- bilization effort and (2) to auth- orize union shop agreements by railway labor. And unless Senate-House con- ferees can reach agreements by nightfall final Congressional action may be delayed on the $3,200,000,000 excess profits tax and the $20,- 000,000,000 arms bill. Both bills have been passed by | | House and Senate, but a compromise of differences remains to be ap- proved by both chambers before | they can go to the White House. | [ Leaders Handicapped House leaders, handicapped by inability to get a working majority on the floor, worked out agreements jto act on conference reports com- pleted today. There was some hope the profits tax might go to Mr Truman by tonight. When the House adjourns this ar- ternoon, it quits for legislative pur- poses Antil New Year’s Day. Token sessions will be held next week, but no business completed. , That leaves only the two days {from Jan. 1 until the new 82nd Congress takes over Jan. '3, for clearing up pending legislation. Christmas Cheer Congress members found some Christmas cheer in defense mobi- lizer Charles E. Wilson's prediction that munitions production will roll at a swift pace in 1951. | Wilson put it this way: | “My guess is that industry mn‘ supply 50 to 100 percent more ma- | ! first big year after Pearl Harbor.” Wilson made the forecast late yesterday to a “watchdog” committee on dei‘en&(" production. | In other mobilization-connected | i developments: 1. The Wage Stabilization Board | reached a unanimous agreement on | the question of wage controls over| 1,000,000 workers. It did not say| what the agreement was, however. 2. Alan Valentine, chief of the; Economic Stabilization Administra- tion, (ESA), said his organization is working on a program to stabilize meat prices. DATELINE CAUSES DOUBLE HOLIDAY CONFUSION BY AIR VANCOUVER, B.C., Dec. 22—® | —aAn air-age Christmas can be a confusing thing, indeed. For 36 members of the United States Army, it will be a clash be- tween tradition and the cuirks of time. On their flight from here to} Tokyo, the soldiers will put downj briefly in the Aleutians, taking off on the morning of Dec. 24 Approximately 30 minutes later thzy will eross the International| Dateline and — presto — it will be | Christmas Day. And because they will be flying westward, gaining time all along,| Christmas for them will be a 27-, hour affair, But.one thing sticks to Christmas dinner. The menu will include: roast tur- key with cranberry sauce; Christ- mas pudding and mince pies. A cocktail will be served to each before dinner, And that, Santa, is Christmas in the air. form, | FROM CALIFORNIA | Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smith of Glendale, Calif., are stopping ah the Baranof Hotel. | SITKA VISITOR “ M. M. Adams of Sitka is regis-| itered at the Baranof Hotel. | | announced last night that it had |’ Colleen Weds Colleen Townsend. the 21-year-old beauty who gave up a movie carcer for religion, gets a kiss from her husband, Louis If. Evans, Jr. 24, theological student, following their marriage in Los Angeles. ceremony, performed by the groom’s father, Dr. a The Louis T. Evans, was witnessed by 1,500 persons. (P Wirl‘phnto leller Io Sanfa Gels ST. PAUL, Minn. Dec. 22—(P— Bobby Hiner, 9, La Porte, Ind,, put a letter into the Santa Claus mail- box in the La Porte Court House. It read: “Last year I asked you to bring my Daddy homg mx' Christmas. This year I wish after | go home to the North Pole.” Bobby’s father, Andrew Hiner, has been working in coal mines near Jonesville, Alaska, for about a year and a half. Recently, he suf- fered a back injury in an accident. La Porte ' businessmen, who handle Santa Claus mail, asked Ronald McVickar, Chicago manager for Northwest Airlines, if he could locate Bobby's father. Northwest headquarters here did, via tele- phone, teletype and radio. They found he was convalescing from the accident and able to fly back to the United States on a ticket purchased by the businessmen. Bobby’s father is scheduled to step from a Northwest plane at the Chicago Airport today. Bobby his two brothers and his mother will be on hand to see Bobby's let- ter to Santa Claus answered in even a better way than he hoped. NW AIRLINES T0 KEEP UP SERVICE T0 KOREAN CITY TOKYO, Dec. 22—®—Don King, Vice President of Northwest Air- lines, said today airline service to the South Korean capital of Seoul would continue as long as the mili- tary situation there remained un- changed. King said the airline would con- tinue its Korean service, using Pu- san, in Southeast Korea, if Seoul should become untenable. The Communists last were re- ported 32 miles nprth of Seoul, whose civilians have been given an evacuation plan if it should be- come necessary to remove them from the city of 1,500,000 persons. King's comment came after a Northwest Airlines spokesman at St. Paul, Minn,, said the line made its |last flight to Seoul two days ago and that henceforth it would land |at Pusan. The St. Paul spokesman said the decision to abandon opera- tions to Seoul was made after con- sultation with Army officers and the Civil Aeronautics Board, 1 | SHUFFLING OF U. S. AGENCIES Quick Tum:NOW SHELVED WASHINGTON, Dec, 22 — (B — President Truman’s request for emergency power to reshuffle fed- e‘nl agencies appeared today to be shelwed until the new Congre: meets next month. PROPOSAL FROMU.N. REJECTED Reasons Are Given by Red Regime-Looks Like Fighting to End (By the Associated Press) Red China rejected to the United Nations’ repeated A)l]"‘\l\ o negotiate for a cease-fire in Korea. It could mean war to the bitter end unless other means for peace can be found. The Peiping radio broadcast the statement of rejection by Premier Chou En-Lai. It spurned the proposal of a special U.N. Assembly commitiee as rising Red attacks in Western Ko- rea prompted a warning by Gen- eral MacArthur that a big new Chinese military offensive may be on the way. In Northeast Korea, evacuation of nearly 25,000 frightened civilians from thé Red-besieged beachhead port of Hungnam was reported by AP Correspondent Tom Lambert, Close-range rocket ships, big naval guns and artillery still shielded the small "beachhead—the United Na- tions’ last foothold in North Ko- rea. Six Point Rejection China’s rejection of any talk to- ward a cease-fire was made In a six-point statement broadcast in Peiping and heard here. The Red Premicr-Foreign Minis- ter said .the-three-mar/UN. com- mittee’s appeal was “unlawful” be- cause Chinese Communists did not participate in formation of the com- | mittee at the U.N. Assembly. The committee had sent the Pei- ping regime “three requests to ne- gotiate for a cease-fire—the last one Thursday night, New York time. The United Nations General As- sembly at Lake Success set up the committee during a consideration of the Korean crisis, U. N. Blasted A Red Chinese delegation’s chief Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) of [ Spokesman blasted the UN. in a 1 tatig in the next year than in the| ., naq delivered your toys to all | the Senate Expenditures group told | the good girls and boys that youa reporter the group agreed inform- | would stop by and take me withjally to defer action pending fur- Senate-House | ), 55 far as Alaska when you|ther study. He made the statement after the committee had conferred behind closed doors with Mobilizer Wilson, Wilson told reporters when he left the meeting that he had urged approval of the bill. He also said in reply to questions that it is too early to tell how much consumer goods production may be cut as a result of the stepped up munitions program. “We are still in the analyzing stage,” he said. “We are analyzing like hell.” Senator McClellan said govern- ment reorganization powers bill probably will be revised to meet objections from some that it would aive blank check authority to the President. Committee members feel that neither Mr. Truman nor Wilson would abuse the reorganization powers the President is seeking, McClellan noted. ‘The House has agreed to take up a reorganization bill on New Year's Day. Before quitting today until next ‘Tuesday, the House passed and sent low an immediate start on necessary defense spending without waiting on the $20 billion money bill to clear Congress, This is not uncommon on non- controversial appropriations which have been delayes MATANUSKA LAYD IS PLACED ON SALE WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—(#—The government today placed on sale some small tracts of land in the Matanuska Valley area of Alaska. An Interior Department an- nouncement said the lands are not suited for farming or for inclusion in farm units of the Matanuska Valley farming project® They were described as good as home sites, summer cabins, hunting lodges and possibly for farming. The announcement said the tracts are available in sizes of from five to 20 acres and at prices starting a t$10 an acre, to the Senate a stopgap bill to al- |¢ lengthy speech but it was not per- mitted to participate in the deci- sions because Red China is not a member. The Chinese left New York for home earlier this week. The Red attacks in western Ko- rea started shortly before Chou's re- jection of cease-fire dickering. The attacks indicate an all-out offensive against U.N. forces could be ex- | pected almost any hour. New Drive Indicated Observers were guessing that Christmas Eve might be the signal for the new Red drive because of the Oriental practice of striking on Occidental holidays. General MacArthur's late Friday war summary said from 10 to 12 di- visions have been identifieds along parallel 38, arbitrary boundary be- tween North and South Korez Artillery was the queen of the beachhead battle—navy guns off- shore, and army artillery ranging from self-propelled 155-millimeter howitzers to 105-millimeter The artillerymen had nuix spots on their maps called “me: showing every possible approach for an attack on the Hungnam perim- eter, A spotter only had to observe the enemy on one of the “measles” all in its number and the artillery- man would let go. TO SEATTLE M. D. Andrick of Mt. Edgecumbe are in Juneau at the Gastineau Hotel. They plan to leave for Seattle to spend the holi- |days. Andrick is with the Alaska Nm.ive Service. Mr. and Mrs, SHOPPING DAY TILL CHRISTMAS. 1