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THE DAILY “ALL TLE NEWS VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,722 ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1951 'Chinese Reds Branded Ag Govl. Eases [FIGHTING - 16} BILLION NEW TAXES 1S FORECAST WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 The outline of the biggest tax in- crease in history reported , at about $16,500,000,000 in one a “quickie” — was presented by President Truman personally to- day to Congressional tax writers In unveiling his pay-as-you-go plan to finance the huge defense effort, the President made a bid for bi-partisan support. He invited the 10 Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee to the White House, as well as the 15 Democrats. Usually, only Democrats are in- vited to such previews of impend- ing presidential recommendations. The Ways and Means members were asked to keep secret every- thing discussed. RAILROAD STRIKE IS SPREADING {8y Associated Press) A fast-spreading wildcat strike €f railroad switchmen, the second in six weeks, threatened today to disrupt the nation’s rail transpor- tetion, Ihie unauthorized walkeut, wnich started in Chicago and Detroit yes. terday morning, spread to eight key cities in le than 24 hours The strike directly affected 18 car- riers. But many other railroads were. indirectly affected because of the tie-up of switching lines. There were indications, a rail union spokesman said, the strike would start in other cities. An Army spokesman said the work stoppage threatened erious ef- fects” to war shipment Effects of the strike almost immediately. Freight and passenger movement was hampered. Several passenger trains were can- celled. Thousands of cars of freight began piling up in cities hit by the strike. One steel company in Chi- cago laid off 1,800 workers. An embargo on freight w: clared by some of the carriers, JUNEAU SINGER NEED MALE VOICES, REHEARSE TOMORROW Juneau Singers are still looking for more men so anyone who would enjoy singing is invited to attend rehearsal tomorrow night at 8:45 in the Methodist Church. All mem- bers are reminded that music is being memorized each week so full attendance is urged. The Washington Merry - Go-Raund By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) were felt de- ASHINGTON—U.S. forces have now 'captured a Chinese combat bulletin giving their secret estimate of American fighting ability. The estimate is about as humiliating as any statement ever made about the white man in Asia. A translation, as cabled back to Washington, fol- lows: “United States troops quickly lose the desire to fight when surrounded and surrender early,.or they will throw away heavy equipment, hide away until night, and attempt to sneak away as individuals. When they advance, they go far quickly so long as they can stay on the road in their trucks and tanks. .When they dismount and get off the road, the sound of firing will make them withdraw. “When United States troops are on the defense, they can be made to withdraw very easily by putting a few troops near their When you get in their rear, they become disorganized and only think two bills, | flanks. | CAPTAINS NAMED, ALSO BOUNDARIES, CIVILIAN DEFENSE R. E. Robertson, Director of the | Juneau - Douglas Civilian Defense Council, gives the names of the re- spective captains and boundaries of the various districts, and this list is published by the Empire and should be cut out and posted, as | it will not be printed again. | Joseph A. McLean, District No. 1.—All of Highlands Addition lying northwesterly former city limits, ‘:xml including Troy, Behrends, and | Park Avenues and Glacier High- | way, as well as all tidelands, except portion thereof where NCC located. | Patrol Headquarters and first aid station: Basement Church of Christ, Glacier Highway; phone Blue 273. Curtis Shattuck, District No. 2.—! | All of Seatter and Irwin Additions, | also Cemetery, also easterly side of | Glacier Highway. Patrol Head- quarters and first aid station: | Harold Foss residence; phone 641. i Ray Westfall, District No. 3— | Bounded on east by Harbor Way | on south by West 10th Street, and extended north to include NCC. property and small boat harbor. Patrol Headquarters and first aid station: Ray Westfall residence, 1044 W. 10th; phone Green 475. Stanley Grummett, District No. 4—Bounded on north by Ceme- tery, on east by C Street, on west by E Street, and on south by West; Ninth Street. Patrol Headquarters | Stan Grummett residence, No. 603,i Corner 10th and C Streets; phone 431; first aid station: Jack Burford iresidence, corner 1ith and D Streets; phone 391; canteen head- quarters: Carl Weidman residence, 604, John Hermle, District No. 5— Bounded on north by West Ninth Street, on west by E Street, on south extending out onto tidelands, on east by Light Company flume way and alley, also including baseball Home Grocery, phones first aid station: corner Willoughby and E; 146 and 342. William H. Barron, District No. 6. —Power House and Standard Oil Company tanks, plant and wharf. Patrol Headquarters and first aid station: Standard Oil Company of- fice, Willoughby Avenue; phone 280. M. L. MacSpadden District No. 7.—Bounded on west by Light Com- pany flume way and alley, on east by Calhoun Avenue as far south as West 8th Street, also on east by Indian Way from West 8th Street north to way or street through Indian Village, and on south by Indian Village way or street. Patrol Headquarters: M. L. MacSpadden residence, 836 Calhoun Avenue; phone 1734; first aid and canteen service station: Governor’s Man- sion; phone 21. K. G. Merritt, District No. 8.— Bounded on west by Calhoun Avenue as far south as West 8th Street, thence on south by West 8th Street to Dixon Avenue thence by Dixon Avenue to West 7th Street, thence on west by brow of hill to West 6th Street, on east by Franklin Street and northerly extension | thereof to include Evergreen Bowl, and on south by West 6th Street from brow of hill to Main Street, then by line extending along brow of hill to Franklin Street about half way between 6th and T7th Streets. Patrol Headquarters: Zal- main Gross residence, Gold Belt Avenue; phone 361; first aid sta- tion, Henry Leege residence, 911 Calhoun Avenue; phone Black 462. Trevor C. Davis, District No. 9. —Bounded on west by Main Street, on south by 5th Street, on east by Franklin Street, and on north by southerly boundary of District No. 8 and including Public Grade and High Schools. Patrol Headquarters and first aid station: Boiler room, Public Grade School building, en- trance ground level on 6th Street side of building; phone Green 445. George E. Cleveland, District No. 10.—Bounded on west by Franklin Street, on south by 5th Street, on east by Harris Street, and extending north to include all houses on both sides Basin Road northerly and easterly of Water Reservoir as well as Reservoir, also including St. Ann’s Hospital and Catholic School. Patrol Headquarters and first aid | station: Geo. E. Cleveland residence, For the information of the public, | | and air vents to encompass the rear |622 West 11th Street; phone Blue| € jdon’t know.” grounds, but excluding Power House | and Standard Oil Company tanks; and plant. Patrol Headquarters und} {a ladder under me and helped m 21 PERISH IN FLAMES, REST HOME HOQUIAM, Wash,, Jan. 31 —(P—. A disastrous rest home fire claimed its 21st victim early today and the hospital reported another was near death. Nils Engerbreton, one of 30 old age pensioners who were residents of the rest home, died of burns re- ceived when a flash fire roared| through the rambling frame struc- ture shortly before lunch time yes- terday. The blaze apparently leaped from a clothes drying room to the second floor while residents of the home, many too ill and feeble to move, lay in their beds. Fourteen Trapped Fourteen were trapped in the flames and suffocating smoke that licked and billowed up stairways of the building and its second floor, | and leave it a charred shell. Firemen and volunteers helped 16 others escape the building. Seven of those rescued died later, six from burns and one from a heart attack. Police Lieut. C. A. Potter and Fire Chief Glenn W. Haney agreed that the fire probably started in a small sheet-metal stove in the dry- ing room, and not in the furnace in an adjoining basement room. At first it was believed the furnace had exploded, as a blast was heard when the blaze struck. Later in- vestigation showed the furnace to be virtually intact. Explosion Like Sound Operator of the McClary COnva-I lescont Home wos Mre. Harriet Me-: Clary. She said: “All of a sudden it sounded like an explosion at the rear of the building and the whole back end was enveloped in black smoke. Probably the furnace blew up. I Her husband, William H. Mc- Clary, said the building was worth $50,000 before the fire. He said he was unable to estimate the damage. Screams for Help As the holocaust roared from basement to second floor with sick- ening speed, the aged screamed for help. One pensioner, Henry Hay- wood 70, said he was lying down' upstairs when he looked under the door, which opened on a stairway. Suddenly he saw flames and smoke. “I ran down the hall and warned the others,” he said. “Then I put| on my shirt, pants and socks, but} by that time the smoke and heat was so bad I went out the back| window on a narrow ledge.” He held on to the gutter for a short while before firemen “shoved e down.” Victims Couldn’t Walk Then, of his aged unfortunate friends he left behind, he said: “I’m sure they couldn’t get out as most of them couldn’t walk.” Firemen had the flames stopped in about an hour. By that time the charred remnants of bedding, clothing and other personal effects were strewn and littered from one end of the burned out building to the other. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle 4 p.m. Friday. Baranof from westward sched- uled to arrive southbound Sunday morning. e o o o o o o o o WEATHER RIPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau Maximum 29; minimum, 19. At Afrport — Maximum, 27; minimum, 2. FORECAST Cloudy with snow tonight and Thursday. Low tempera- ture tonight near 26 and high Thursday near 32. Increas- ing southeasterly winds to- night and Thursday. PRECIPITATION ef © (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today j City of Juneau — Trace. ® since Jan. 1 — 3.95 inches; since July 1—4194 inches. At Airport — None; | ficials said at least 50 other con- |SK1 CHAMPIONSHIP Wage Freeze, Move Today WASHINGTON, Jan 31 —®— The government today eased the wage freeze to permit all wage raises granted Jan. 25, or before, which apply to a pay period start- ing Feb. 9 or before. b The action was taken by the Wage Stabilization Board by a vote of 6 to 3, with the three industry members dissenting. The new order permits a wage increase of $1.60 a day for about 400,000 soft coal miners which takes effect tomorrow. It apparently does not permit, however, a similar increase to about 75,000 hard coal miners, but Board Chairman Cyrus S. Ching said “we will have to determine that. We don’t know the facts of that case.” The hard coal contracts were signed Jan. 26, the day after the wage-freeze order took effect. The soft coal contract was signed sev- eral days earlier. The regulation does not specific- ally mention coal, and board of- tracts, and maybe 10 times that many, are affected by the easing of the wage freeze. The announcement of the regula- tion and three other wage orders clarifying the wage freeze was made by Ching at a suddenly called news conference. One of the new orders exempts| | state, county, and municipal em- | ployes — but not Federal — from the wage freeze. The fact that the industry mem- bers dissented in the very first ma- jor policy decision did not mean that they would quit the board, they said. They merely thought that wage raise contracts, signed before the freeze order but effective after- ward, should be taken care of in a later general order on Wage policy. The industry members are Ward ! Keener, Reuben Robertson, Jr., and | Henry Arthur. Earlier, Senator Byrd (D-Va) had spoken out against permitting wage increases agreed upon but not actually in effect before the govern- ment slapped on the freeze. e CHAPADOS RETURNING { TO ALASKA SATURDAY | | Frank Chapados, Fish and Wild- life Service Alaska Enforcement Agent is expected to avive in Juneau next Saturday from the States and will remain here a dnyl before proceeding to his Fairbanks headquarters. He is accompanied by Mrs. Chapados. Chapados has been in the States since December. He assisted enforce- ment agents in Washington and Idaho during the migratory bird hunting season and then took an- nual leave for a vacation trip. He' is a former resident of Gastineau Channel and has many friends here. MOVIES TO BE AT SCHOOL THURSDAY The ski championship movies sponsored by the Juneau Ski Club will be shown tomorrow night in the Grade School auditorium at 8 o'clock Tickets can be obtained at Harry Race Drug Store, Dean’s Ski Inn or at the door. It is regarded as the finest ski movie ever made and depicts . the 1950 ski championships at Aspen, Colorado. Narration is by Lowell Thomas. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 31 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 997%, American Tel. & Tel. 151%, Anaconda 41, Douglas Aircraft 103%, General Electric 54%, General Mot- ors 49%, Goodyear 72, Kennecott 75%, Libby, McNeill & Libby 9, Northern Pacific 35, Standard Oil | | Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange| 94.87%. Sales today were 2,340,000 shares. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS IS FIERCE, ONE FRONT (By Associated Press) Advancing Allied forces attacked with bayonets and grenades today after a thunderous artillery and air strike failed to smash unyield- ing Chinese Communist resistance on the Korean warfront. This was seven miles northeast of Suwon, on the east flank of the bloody western front just south of Seoul, Although the well dug-in enemy failed to break under bom- bardment, one front line officer said Wednesday’s artillery fire “must have killed thousands of Chinese. One Allied patrol was reported | | only seven miles south of Seoul. Kosang Shelled On the east coast, the U. S. bat- tleship Missouri, other naval units || and carrier planes pounded Ko- sang, 45 miles north of the 38th parallel. Kosang is 20 miles north | ' of Kansong, blighted Tuesday in a similar attack by warships and planes of task force 77. Landing boats circled offshore while rocket ships spewed deadly match to Mrs. Pauline Bejz Addie missiles on Kosang. But no landing was attempted. Stiff Enmemy Opposition In western Korea, stiffening en- emy opposition . held the Allies to minor gains. Allied planes sighted 15,000 to 20,000 Communist troops near Konjiam, a village mne miles northeast of Kumyangjang. A united Nations battalion was Leing subjected to heavy mortar and small arms fire three or four miles northeast of Kumyangjang, a Ninth @éus spokesman said. (This was the first mention of the Ninth Corps in some time). Following night-long fighting at close range, the central front as- sault met only light enemy resis- tance. The hard core of the Chin-| ese defense seemed to be on the western front, where U. S. Puerto!} Rican and Greek troops were at- tacking. The Reds popped up out of camouflaged foxholes and shot Allied troops in the back. 1t was the seventh day of the; Allyrd limitedy offensive, hitting | the Reds by land, sea and air. SENATORS WILL STUDY OLD AGE PENSIONS SLASH (By Jim Hutcheson) A special Senate committee was nameq today to consider the pos- sible need of an extra appropriation for old age pensions. If recommended, it would be for a deficiency appropriation to carry until the end of the present bien- nium, March 31, to allow restora- tion of an 8 per cent cut that has been in effect since Jan. 1. Sen. Howard Lyng (D-Nome) pro- posed the committee study of the “urgent situation.” Lyng read to the Senate the Dec. 27 notice sent all pensioners by Public Welfare Director Henry A, Harmon. It said the 8 percent reduction was effective Jan. 1 on all old age assistance payments of $12 or more a month. The no- tice sald the economy action was forced by an increase in the pen- sion rolls by “much more than was expected when the money was appropriated by the 1949 legisla- ture for the two years, and also because so many payments have been increased.” The 1949 legislature raised the maximum pension payment to $80 a month. Referring to the pension cut, Lyng declared that the elderly recipients “have been hard put to it even under the maximum, and many do not get the maxi- mum.” Lyng, who served 11 years on the territorial board of public wel- fare, said “it is not a healthy condition, nor do I think it a justified action.” In proposing a committee study, the Nome Senator said: “We should scrutinize the situa- y %, U. 8. e %! necessary, 1 don’t see why as a temporary measure Wwe shouldn’t seek a deficiency appropriation.” {was clocked in Stockton, Calif. () Wirephoto. Gussie Moran, the lass with the lace, lost her racket as well as her in an exhibition tennis match at LONE PILOT BREAKS FLIGHT MARK FROM NEW YORK-LONDON LONDON, Jan. 31— (® —Airline Capt. Charles Blair, in a Mustang fighter plane, today smashed all records for a flight from New York to London. Blair, a 41-year-old Pan American Airways pilot, streaked out of the darkness over London Airport just | seven hours and 48 minutes after his dawn take off on the other side of the Atlantic. His average speed for the non- stop trip of some 3500 miles was about 450 miles per hour. This “flying gas tank"—named Excalibur the Third—left New York’s Idlewild Airport at 4:50 a.m. EET. (9:50 am. British Time) and here at 5:38 p.m. (12:38 pm, EST). Blair flew much of the way at an ! altitude of over 25,000 feet. He was | pushed along by a tremendous tail | wind which at times blew more than 130 miles an hour. The old London-New York record of eight hours, 55 minutes was set by an Pan-American Stratocruiser, carrying 24 passengers, on Nov. 22.( 1949. Its pilot was Capt. Charles Titus of Great Neck, Long Island. CREDIT UNION FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES IN ANNUAL SESSION The end of the second year’s op- | eration finds the Juneau Federal | | Employees Credit Union in good | condition, and promises further growth in its third year, officers told the members attending the an- nual meeting of the organization late Tuesday afternoon in the Fed- eral Building. A 4 per cent dividend was declar- ed on shares outstanding at the close of the past year. The primary purpose of the Credit Union is to provide an easy means of thrift and credit service | the European members of the Nort! (NA- | TO) of the urgency of an immediate | EISENHOWER WILL REPORT TOCONGRESS WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 —(®— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower flew into Washington today to report to President Truman and Congress on | led the fight his survey of Europe’s will and abil- ity to oppose Communist aggres-| sion. The general’s four-engine plane came into the National Airport after a flight from West Point, N. Y. time and upset the made. Right on the dot of 12:30 — the officially fixed hour a White House car drove up with the Presi- | dent. A stinging sleet storm was fall- ing. For Eisenhower, visit here the | presents a big selling problem. He must convince Congress, and Americans in geneval, that more U. S. troops are needed to help de- | fend Western Europe. In his 21-day tour of Eurcpe he apparently pretty well convince Atlantic Treaty -organization build up of defense forces. First off, Eisenhower had sched- President to be followed by a ses- sion with the cabinet. | Tomorrow, he will meet with Con- gress. NATION SHIVERS WITH MORE SNOW FOR NORTHEAST (By Associated Press) Most of the nation shivered 1n} biting cold today and the North- | | | | | | gressors in Korea Now, Gussie AMERICAN DEMANDS APPROVED UN Politic;I_ Committee Takes Definite Action Against Peiping LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 31—(®—The United- Nations political committee labelled Communist China an ag- gressor in Korea at an emotion- charged session late last night, but left wide open what new steps, if any, to take against the Peiping regime. Forty-four delegates including those of Britain, France, Canada, the Latin American states and all of America's Atlantic Pact Allies, shouted “yes” after their names were called. “I thank God,” said U. &. Dele- gate Warren R. Austin turning to embrace Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, | Jebb’s last-minute support had swung many wavering countries into line. Seven nations — India, Burma, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Ukraine and White Russia— voted “No.” Afghanistan, Egypt. Indonesia, Pakistan, Sweden, Syria, Yeman and Yugoslavia abstained. Saudi Arabla did not take part in the vote. American Triumph Before the American triumph —marking the end of tie hardest fight the U. S. ever has waged in the UN—the committee trounced paragraph by paragraph an Arab- Asian call for a new peace appeal | to Peiping. It never got more than 18 approving votes. India’s Sir Benegal N. Rau, who | where Eisenhower spent last night. | It was eight minutes ahead of | welcoming | schedule Washington officials had | for its adoption, de- clared the Asian bloc had tried to halt what he termed the march | to disaster and its defeat could cut ! off all negotiations with Red China. | Asked by reporters, as he stood apart (ro;n the general jubilation, what he’ thought the next step in the Far East crisis would be, Rau said: “They, the majority will have that headache.” hi luled a private luncheon with the; U. 8. Proposals The hotly-contested U. S. pro- posal: 1. Decides that Communist China, engaged in aggression in Korea, 2. Requests a committee on coll- ective security to study what to do about meeting this aggression in Korea, but authorizes it to hold up its work if a good offices commit- tee reports progress on a peace- ful settlement. 3, Approves creation of the good offices committee to consist of As- sembly President Nasrollah Ente- zam of Iran and two others whom | he will name. | 4, cCalls on the Peiping regime to withdraw its nationals and forces from Korea and to stop fighting UN forces. 5. Affirms the determination of | the UN to continue its action in Korea to meet the aggression. 6. Calls upon all states and auth- crities not to help the aggressors. | ERNEST ELY ACCEPTED | AT U. OF ORE. MEDICAL [ SCHOOL IN PORTLAND Word has been received here by Juneau friends of Mr, and Mrs. Ernest Ely (Mary Sperling) that Mr. Ely has been accepted at the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland. He will enter to its membess. There are now 89 ' eastern states were blanketed by | the school October 1. Federal employees on the member- | their first heavy snowfall of lhe} ship roll. | Reports of the past year’s busi-| were elected at the meeting held | ‘Tuesday. | Elected to the Board of Trustees | from which officers will be named | j Were Don Miller, Tke Cahail Charles season, Ely graduated from the Univers- | ity of Oregon in 1949 and has been Caribou, Me, became one of the doing graduate work in the 1950 ness were read and officers for 1951 | nation’s “ice box” spots when the!and 51 semesters at the university mercury dipped to ah all time 1ow | awaiting to be accepted from the of 32 below zero. Big Piney, Wyo. large waiting list for enroliment in was even colder with -33. A six to 10-inch forecast for the snowfall was Northwest, with | University of | the medical school. Mrs. Ely will graduate from the Oregon next June. Buttrey, Ruth Rogall and John | brisk winds. The snow powdered | ghe is a graduate of the Juneau Scott. Members elected to the 'the New York metropolitan area | High school. Credit Committee were Katherine |at dawn and increased in imensicyi The Elys spent several months in Nordale, Olive Trower and Burke | Riley. Elected to serve on the Super- visory Committee were Kivland, Edith Moore and Evan Scott. Don Miller is the retiring president. The next meeting of the Credit | Union members is scheduled for| the third week in February. | as the day wore on. Juneau last year. Sleet and freezing rain glazed a| the Lower Mississippi Valley north- eastward to the Appal William | wide trail from East Texas across 1 SHRINE CLUB FRIDAY ‘ A new rumpus room will be de- lachians, the | dicated at a Friday meeting of the Ohio Valley, and the Middle At-|Juneau Shrine Club at 8 o'clock p.m. lantic states. PALMER VISITOR | Bill Leivers will show movies of | past Shrine picnics; Jack Fargher will be in charge of barber shop E. G. Ganschaw, with the Al |harmony; M. L. MacSpadden, C. On the committee, as suggested by aska Experiment Station at Pal-| Casler and George Marcum will mer, is registered at the Gastineau put on the feed. Members are re- )‘quested to take Noble legislators. of getting cut. “United States B S S 2 (Continued on Page Four) PELICAN VISITOR Mrs. A. J. Raatikainen of Pelican is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.JHotel, E. Tth Street, between Gold and|® . Franklin Streets; phone 496. since Jan. 1 — 225 inches; since July 1—30.25 inches. ll ® 06 ¢ o2 0 0 00 trocps are not o| Averages today are as follows: y e | Industrials 24883, rails 8658, et Lyng to meet with the public wel: . lmes 42.26. G 1—_’ A e e T s e e 4 (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Eight) | A