The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 26, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL-TLIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,692 Big Chinese Fantastic K|_dnapv_P_oI AIR FORCE STRENGTH T0 BOOM Emergen(y M obilization| Program Announced- Four Fold Size Goal WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 — () — 9 The Air Force is gearing its emer- gency mobilization program to a | strength four times as powerful as that on hand before Korea. Undersecretary John A. McCone said today in an interview that this applies clear across the Pacific—to aircraft production, training of men, and bases for men and equip- ment. The four-fold size goal could be reached by late 1953 if ordered. The ' immediate program, to be com- pleted in *wo years, calls for roughly ‘ doubling the number of Air Force /,roups, the number of men, and the number of bases in States. The move toward the doubled Air Force already is obvious in plane orders; in putting World War II ., blane plants back into production; in reopening 25 bases since June, 8 /and disclosure that Air Force per- sonnel soon will be more than | « double the pre-Korea strength ofl 412,000. Output of Air Force combat type planes already has risen to a rate of more than 150 a month from the pre-Korea rate of 110 a month and will be doubled by next December. But that is only a part of the program. The expansion is being handled in a way that it can be! doubled again later on. So far as aircraft and equipment "is concerned, McCone said, this ) ‘means tooling plants to produce for a volume well in excess of quantities , now on order. When the North Korean Reds in- vaded last June, the Air Force had 48 groups. The program has already been increased to 84 groups. And there are indications the Air Force sights have beea raised to al- most 100 groups within two years to keep the air balance under a total ‘,ot 3,500,000 Americans under arms. - ONE CHRISTMAS WINDOW THE EMPIRE MISSED —BILL RAY’S There are probably other Christ- mas windows that were missed by The Empire reporter in Saturday's listing of Christmas decorations, but Bill Ray’s Liquor Store in the # George Brothers building on South JFranklin street was missed. Ray has a very handsome Santa Claus in his Christmasy window. ANDY BARLOW RETURNS Andy Barlow, executive secretary of the United Trollers of Alaska, re- turned to his headquarters here today. He spent Christmas at Wran- gell, YOUNG FAMILY HERE Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Young and family of Haines are stopping * at the Baranof Hotel. The Washington Merry - Go- Roymd Copyright, 1985, by Bell 8 2. Inc) By DREW PEARSO) (The Empire did not |ublish yesterday (Monday, istmas day) but here is the Was}ington Merry-Go-Round for rel¢:se on that day as it is pertiné ¢, we are printing it.—Editor). ASHINGTON—About two years ago I published “A G.JI's plea for * peace” written by John Crown, a jparalyzed war veteran. The letter attracted so much attention that _ August Dietz of Richmond, Va., geenrously printed several thousahd copies and this letter became a source of inspiration to many Am- ericans. Last spring John Crown's tor- tured body gave up the battle for life, and I should like to republish = - his letter on this Christmas Day when we are trying to dedicate “ ourselves to the things Christ taught us. It follows: “My name is John Crown. I am a paraplegic at Halloran General Hospital. My physical wounds are (Continued on Page ¥our) » the United 1 CGambler Harold Smith, wealthy Smith family children. photo. . owner of Reno, Harold's Club 2nd police inspect dummy lumber truck which authori- ties say was to be used in a fantastic plot to kidnap one of the Smith pushes on planks that reveal | concealed opening to hollowed interior of load of lumber. (P} Wire- JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUES! COLD, SNOW WAVE HITS U.S. AREAS (By Associated Press) Snow piled up across the north- | | ern half of the nation today and shivered in the coldest weather of the season. some eastern points | as far south Subzero cold hit several localit- ies along the northern tler of states |, DAY, DECEMBER 26, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e Bllzlard Stalls Traflu while chilly readings were ta.ke'h\ as Texas. | Snow whitened New York City three years to the day after a re- cord 258 inch fall tied the metro- || politan area in knots. Chicago awakened to knee-deep ! drifts and found more snow fall- | ing. Falls ranged from four to seven | inches in other | | belt from the Dakotas to the east- ern seaboard. Upstate New York had the cold- areas of a snow est weather of the season, with a | reading of 22 degrees below zero at Newton Falls in the northern part | of the state. Other overnight low temperatures included 24 below at Bismarck, N. D.; 19 below at Duluth, Minn.; { below at International Falls, Minn.; {and five below at Minneapolis-St. Nev. nationally-known President fo Gef Busy On His Messages One fo Congress Will Be on State of the Union- Requests Coming Up WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 — (® — President Truman’s opening mes- sage to the new Congress may hang an emergency label on some “fair deal” proposals but lawmaker friends generally hope it will stick to international issues. The President returns from Inde- i1pendence to get down to work on his state of the union message, and two other messages to the 82nd Con- gress. The Presiden. is due back late today, a day earlier than planned. After conferences with his Defense chiefs, Mr. Truman is to start drafting his program for the legis- lators. His state of the union message probably will deal at length with the situation in Korea and efforts to help Western Europe rearm. But lawmakers won’t be surprised if the President dusts off parts of the program he has recommended | to Congress before and suggests they are needed to strengthen the nation’s defenses. One Senator said, for instance, that Mr. Truman might ask again for action on the controversial Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) issue, on the grounds that racial discrimination weakens the defense production effort. The President is almost certain to recommend again statehood for Alaska and Hawaif, as defense out- posts. Passed by the House, : statehood bills will die for lack of Senate action when the present Congress ends. Much more likely to get immedi- ate attention from the new Con- gress will be Mr. Truman’s expected requests for huge military outlays at home and abroad, revision of the draft law, higher taxes, authority to set up emergency agencies and extension of the rent control law. These and other emergency- spawned issues are expected to take ‘up the opening months of Congress. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday p.m. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver December 30. West Sunday southbound. the | | States. ia recognition of the need of man- |the south and left on the Pacific Denali scheduled to arrive from "Nor'.hem Airlines plane for Anchor- Mass Prayer Day Called On New Year (By the Associated Press) A call for mass prayer on the eve of a new half century spread today across a troubled United With the nation caught in the; tightening coils of world conflict,} hundreds of thousands of Americans planned to begin the New Year with an invocation rather than revelry. To them, Dec. 31, 1950, will be a day of prayer. The National Council of Churches | of Christ of America, reprresenung' more than 31,000,000 members in 29 orthodox and Protestant denomina- tions, said yesterday that its call for the special prayer day has brought nationwide response. “At the same time,” said the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, Council President, “spont&neous movements for daily prayer are developing in al], parts of the country and reflect kind for God’s guidance.” RUSSIAN PEACE PRIZE COMING UP| MOSCOW, Dec. 26—(P—The Pre- sidium of the Supreme Soviet (Par- liament) announced today the ap- pointment of a 12-man committee to award the first annual interna- tional Stalin peace prizes “for strengthening the peace among peoples.” The announcement did not say when the committee, made up of three Russians and delegates from nine other nations including China, would ‘meet to choose their candi- dates for the 100,000-Ruble ($25,000 at Russian evaluation( prize. The Stalin peace prize was set up by decree of the Presidium on the Soviet Prime Minister'’s 70th birthday last year. At that time it was declared the 1950 prize would be awarded on Stalin’s 7lst birthday Dec. 21. But on that day, no mention was made of the prize, no possible candidates had been suggested and no committee had yet been named. There was no explanation of the delay. KODIAK MAYOR NORTH Lee Bettinger, mayor of Kodiak, visited briefly in Juneau over the weekend. He came in Saturday from age enroute to Kodiak. Paul, Minn. Jacksonville, Fla., gateway to the winter resort land, had 37 above, while Miami, Fla., reported 56. Other parts of the country enjoy- ed fair weather, A reading of 76 at Phoenix, Ariz, yesterday tied the previous high marks on Christ- mas Day in 1919 and 1933. DEATH TOLL OF HOLIDAY MOUNTS U? (By Associated Press) The nation counted a staggering death toll of 664 today from violent adcidents over m’: three-day Christmas holiday. Traffic fatalities soared to above 500, the highest since the all-time record of 555 in 1936, Mishaps of | the highways—many ice-coated and others made slippery by freshly fallen snow—Xkilled 515 persons. That was more than 100 above the 1949 Christmas holiday toll. Accidents from miscellaneous causes—fires, drownings, falls, etc., took an additional 149 lives. The grim totalone of the largest for any three day holiday period, cover- ed the 78 hours from 6 p.m. Friday to last midnight. Last year’s total for the Christmas holiday was 580, including 167 in a variety of acci- dents. The traffic toii was far above the National Safety Council's es- | timate of 440, which was the high- est it ‘ever had predicted for the extended Christmas holiday. It more than doubled the number killed in motor accidents over a similar period Dec. 8 to 11. CHICAGO, Dec. 26—(P—Tabula- tion late this afternoon by the Asso- ciated Press increases the holiday ¢ death toll to 676, instead of 664; traffic fatalities to 528 instead of 515 and miscellaneous accidents to 153 instead of 149. WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 36; minimum, 33. At Airport—Maximum, 38; minimum, 32, FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Continued cloudy with in- termittent Hght rain tonight and Wednesday. Lowest tem- perature tonight near 40 de- grees. Highest Wednesday about 35. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—008 inches; since Dec, 1 — 350 inches; since July 1—36.74 inches. At Airport — 0.02 inches; since Dec, 1 — 281 inches; since July 12592 inches. ® ® o 0 00 0 00 28‘ u-w cated throughout the city. The State counted seven dead. (P Chrisimas in HOLIDAY BINGE IN LOS ANGELES PUTS OVER 1,000 IN JAIL alcoholic haze over Los Angeles cleared today, the morning after three days of Christmas celebrat- ing. Veteran police officials said they had never seen anything like the i holiday binge in the metropolitan area. It occurred despite days of pre-Christmes warnings and doubled lew enfo-cement crews try- ing to keep t*:2 holiday safe and sober. The drab hangover is a record of 11 traffic deaths, 362 persons fac- ing drunk driving charges and a drunkenness. 'Korean War At a Glance (By the Associated Press) Fighting Front South rean military headquarters an- nounces Chinese Communist in- creasing their pressure along Allied ilines south of 38th parallel Red China’s military leader, Chu Teh demands U.N. forces get out lof Rorea, threatens new offensive. MacArthur announces 10th Corps placed under single unified com- mand of regrouped Eighth Army. Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway assumes command. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 26 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 92%, American Tel. and Tel. 150, Anaconda 38%, Douglas Aircraft 92, General Electric 47%, General Mo- tors 46%, Goodyear 64!, Kenne- cott 74%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 31%, Standard 0il of California 85, Twentieth Cen- tury Fox 20%, U. S. Steel 10%, Pound $280, Canadian Exchange 94.62. Sales today were 2,600,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 229.65, rails 75.62, utilities 4012, Ko- FROM FAIRBANKS John L. Cole of Fairbanks is Ways; Fervent Hope for Peace LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26—(®—An] grand total of 1222 arrests for, Buses and cars sit motionless at Euclid Avenue and East 77th Strtel, one of Clevellnd'l (Ohio) busiest intersections, as the city struggled through one of jts worst blizzards in history. The scene was dupli- The storm dumped a 12 to 28 inch thick comforter of snow on Ohio. Wirephoto. War-Menaced World Observes Many Different (By the Associated Press) Christians throughout a war- menaced world observed Christmas yesterday (Monday) with a fervent hope for peace—or at least survival —in the year to come. The Red clouds swirling out ofl 'ravaged Korea cast their shadows over Yuletide celebrations in (ree— dom-loving lands the world o The worried solemnity o( thl: year's celebration of the Birth of Christ was reflected in religious ! services, In the messages of church and state leaders and in gatherings about the family hearth, In many homes the customary re- joicing was muted by the knowledge that sons, husbands or “athers — fallen before tk2 adve ,cing Com- | munist host ir Korea -would never {return. For others, howevir, there was a measure of cheer in the announce- ment that more than 100,000 men fighting with the U.N. forces had been brought out successfully Christ- mas Eve from a Red trap in north- east Korea. President Truman voiced the gen- eral feeling in a brief statement from his home in Independence, Mo., where he celebrated the holiday quietly with his family. “This saving of our men in this isolated beachhead is the best Christmas message I ever had,” the President said. King's Message | The general spirit of solemnity was mirrored in the annual Christ- mas message of King George VI, broadcasting to Britons all over the world. “If our world is to survive in any sense that makes survival worth- while,” the ruler said, “it must learn to love, not to hate, to create, not to destroy.” Pope’s Plea Pope Pius XII underlined his Christmas plea for peace by extend- ing Holy Year indulgences through- out the Catholic World in 1951. He called for a year of prayer, penance and peace. The Pontiff, who closed the Holy Year celebration in ceremonies at midnight Monday at Vatican City, thus gave all Catholics a chance to ;gain spiritual advantages for which some 4,000,000 pilgrims travelled to Rome in the past year. Courageous Letter In Communist-ruled Warsaw, Po- land’s primate, Archbishop Stafan Wyszynski issued a courageous pas- toral letter read in all churches and calling on the faithfui to be devoted first to God and not to party or worldly things. Western Europe, fearful that it might be the scene of the next act of Red aggression, shared the gen- staying at the Gastineau Hutel.Jenl anxiety. TENDERMEN'S UNION IN ALASKA IS TO, GET BOOST, WAGES SEATTLE, Dec. 26—{#—Members of the Cannery Tenderman’s Union (AFL) of Kodiak and Southeast Alaska districts will receive a 12% percent wage increase under an agreement announced today with the Alaska Salmon Industry. About half a dozen other unions have announced similar contracts with the Alaska Fishing Industry. GENERAL AIRWAYS OF PORTLAND PUTS UP ROUTING FIGHT| "PORTLAND, Ore,, Dec. 26—(P—| General Airways, non-scheduled Portland to Anchorage air carrier in operation the last three years, announced yesterday it would fight for the right to stay operating. Gus Callas, pilot-president of the Portland firm, said his attorneys have petitioned the Civil Aeronau- tics Board to reconsider an order rejecting the firm’s bid to continue operating. Callas said the CAB claimed the! airline was offering a “route type” service competing with regularly scheduled airlines. The company now has two DC-3 type aircraft. It was the first Portland airline to; begin flying fresh foodstuffs and other cargo into Alaska from Port- land in the post-war years, It is the only Portland firm now flying non- schedule to Alaskan cities. PILOT, CO-PILOT KILLED IN CRASH; 16 EVACUATED PENTICTON, B.C., Dec. 26—P— The bodies of a pilot and co-pilot, fatally injured in last Friday’s crash of an airliner on snowy Mount Okanogan, were brought back here late Sunday. Sixteen survivors -- 10 of them women—had been evacuated earlier from the crash scene 20 miles north of this interior British “olumbia town. None was injured. ‘The two airmen—y lot C pt. Quin- ton Moore and co: pilot .e0 Dou- ce'te, both of Vance uver, L.C.—died of injuries suffered when they pan- caked the Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3 into a small pine-circled en- closure. Cause of the crash, which occur- red as the plane flew en route from Vancouver to Calgary, still was un- known officially. Red Offensive Developes in Korea U.N. FORCES NOW FACING NEW ATTACK Enemy Contacting All Along Line - Beachhead Successfully Evacuated (By Associated Press) Communist forces were reported today to be developing their long expected massive offensive against United Nations troops holding the line north of Seoul. Republic of Korea military head- quarters sald enemy contact all along the front lines was being in- tensified. The Communist Chinese were said to be concentrating near Yonchon, 40 miles ‘orth of the South Korean capital. The U. 8. Eighth Army was re- grouped for action just south of the 38th parallel and defense lines were holding firmly, reports said. Gen. MacArthur had said earlier " |a massive Communist offensive was expected. The 'UN commander stated the enemy had massed troops, supplies and artillery await- ing only a signal for a big push. He announced the U.S. 10th Corps, evacuated from Hungnam has been placed under a single unified com- mand of the Eighth Army. This re- shuffling reportedly affects a revit- alized 10th Corps of 105,000 men. Push Against “Invaders” Chu Teh, commander-in-chief of Red China's army; sald in a bread- cast that the Chinese and Korean Reds were “driving southward in pursuit of the American invaders.” He demanded that “all foreign troops” pull out of Korea and that “U. 8. aggressive forces” leave Fof- mosa. MacArthur, in a special com- munique, declared the withdrawal of the U, 8. 10th Corps from Hung- nam beachhead completed a re- !shuffling of UN forces as required by Red China’s entry into the Korean war. ‘The Corps commander, Maj. Gen, Edward M. Almond, disclosed his troops landed in the Pusan-Pohang area of southeast Korea. The skill- ful withrawal from the blazing Hunhgnam beachhead was completed Sunday. The troops were saved from possible total destruction by an overwhelmingly large force of Chinese Reds and are now ready i to fight again. ; New Command Formed The 10th Corps, which formerly { was virtually a separate army, has now been added to the Eighth Army under a new commander, Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, Wortd War Airborne Division commander, He has replaced Lt. Gen, Walton H. Walker who was killed in a jeep accident near the front lines Sat- urday. The Eighth Army, fighting south of Seoul now has three corps —the First, Ninth and 10th. MacArthur said the 10th Corps had made a “juncture” with the Eighth but did not elaborate. Reds Blasted From Air Ideal flylng weather permitted Allied planes to turn out in force to blast Red troops and supplies throughout North Korea. B-29 Sup- erforts dropped 176 tons of bombs (Conunued on Page Six) FIERCE ATTACK IS MADE (By Associated Press) Communist Chinese troops fierce- ly attacked South Korean troops 28 miles northwest of Seoul today while the South Korean capital was being emptied of citizens fleeing to the south. Republic of Korea military head- quarters said the battle was raging in the Korangpo area, east of Kae- song. It sald enemy contact all along the front lines south of the 38th parallel was being intensified. The U. S. Eighth Army, guarding Two Royal Canadian Mounted Police remained at the wreck scene | over Christmas day awaiting the arrival of investigators. the western end of United Nations defense positions, reported Com- | munist . patrols were probing the !area to determine UN strength,