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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
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President Puts SquarelY
Up 10 Russia Decision,
World War III
(By Associated Press)

Congress reacted swiftly to Presi-
dent Truman's call to arms in the
fight against Communism, although
some baked at the economic con-
trolls he proposed yesterday in his
proposal of a $4,000, 100000 mobili-
cation program.
The President put squarely up to
the Soviet Union the decision
whether the Korean war will expand
into World War III. Diplomatic
observers said the next move is up
to Moscow.
The Soviet Union repeated today
that American and British demands
for withdrawal of the North Ko-
reans to the 38th parallel should be
discussed by the United Nations
Security Council, presumably with
Communist China as member
This is Russia's price for negoti-
ating a peaceful settlement in 10
rea. The rock-bottom American
condition for negotiations is the
withdrawal first of the North Ko-
reans.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
MOBILIZATION
PROGRAM GIVEN
BY PRESIDENT
(By the Associated Press

(By the Associated Press
President Truman's mobilization
program in brief:
Actions Taken
Armed forces authorized to order
up reserves and National Guard as
needed.
FILA and VA home financing
curbed sse
Government agencies ordered to
trim non-war spending.
Proposals Pending in Congress
New S10,000,000,0 authorization
for military spending.
Removal of all limits on strength
of Army. Navy and Air Force.
Controls over installment buying
commodity trading, private housing
credit.
Power to allocate materials, limit
civilian goods output.
Soon to 60 to Congress
Substantial" tax boost, includ-
ing income and excess profits tax.
Increased foreign military aid
and us. stockpiling speed-up.
For the Future
If needed, a request for price
controls and consumer rationing.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
PROFITS TAX
DEMANDED ON
CAPITOL HILL

WASHINGTON, July 20-lR-De-
mands arose on Capitol Hill today
for multi-billion dollar excess
profits tax on corporations, to pre-
vent profiteering.
A general tax boosting bill-pos-
sibly putting larger levies on in
dividual incomes, along with higher
taxes on corporation profits-will
replace the $1,000,000,000 excise tax
slashing measure that Congress has
put aside.
President Truman gave notice
yesterday he will ask for more
taxes-he didn't say just when-to
help finance the extra $4,000, 000,-
300 needed for the battle against
Communist aggression, to curb in
flation, and to eliminate profiteer-
ing.
His use of the word "profiteering
was Interpreted in Congress as
meaning he is certain to ask for
an excess profits tax If the war
time 85.5 per cent rate and base
for calculating such profits were
restored, they would yield the gov
eminent about $8,000,0 100000, one
expert said
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
WORKERS, ALASKA
CANNERIE, START
TO VOTE FRIDAY

SEATTLE, July 20-LR-The pol
ling place for an election among
5000 nonresident Alaska salmon
cannery workers will be opened to-
morrow at GOT First Ave.
Julius N. Draznin, National Labor
Relations Board field examiner who
is in charge of the election, said
the polling place also will be open
Saturday and Sunday.
An election was ordered by the
NLRB to determine which of three
unions will have the right to rep
resent the nonresident workers
The workers will vote as they re-
turn to Seattle from Alaska and
are paid off for the the season s
work.
Voters will have a choice be-
tween the Alaska Fish Cannery
Workers Union (AFL), Local &c,
International Longshoremen and
Warehousemen's Union (CIO); Lo-
cal II, United clearinghouse Work.
ers Union (CIO) or no union.
First workers returning from AL
aska are from the Bristol Bay
area. Some 300 have been employed
this year in that district. Workers
will return from other areas later
and the election will continue until
late in September.
The three unions have been
Haging a vigorous campaign to win
votes among the workers. who for
merly were represented by the
Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and
Allied Workers, a union expelled
rom TIE CIO.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
ALASKA STEAM
HIRING BRINGS
up ALL DISPUTE

SEATTLE, July 20-tR-A union
leader filed new charges of unfair
labor practices today in the long
standing dispute over Alaska
Steamship Comply hiring.
The charges were filed with the
National Labor Relations Board in
behalf of 80 individuals. They were
filed by Don L. Rotan, organizer OF
the unaffiliated Pacific Marine
Stewards Union.
The union was formed in break
from the Marine Cooks and Stew
ards Union (CIO) over the left-wing
issue
The charges were leveled at the
steamship firm, the Pacific Mari
time Association and the CLIO Ma
rine Cooks Union.
The charges are similar to those
made in behalf of all individuals
last November. A complaint was
issued on them by the NLRB re-
gional office and a hearing was
held. The trial examiner never has
handed down his findings.
The charges filed today assert the
80 individuals have been deprived OF
jobs on the ships of the Alaska line
since March 9 because of an illegal
contract between the Maritime
Association, to which the company
belongs, and the CLIO union.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
INDIANS CONDEMN
U.s.; RED TRIUMPH
ASSERTS ONE PAPER
Refusal 10 Accept Nehru S
Peace Move" by
Acheson Resented

NEW DELHI, India, July 20-RC
midas press today almost unani-
mously condemned the us. refusal
to follow Prime Minister Nehrus
recommendation for peace in Ko-
rea.
Nehru meanwhile turned his at
tention to pressing troubles in his
own Observation-Disclosures two-year-olo
dispute with Pakistan over Kashrnir
Pakistan's Prime Minister Liaquat
Ala Khan was due in New Delhi to-
day for conferences on Kashmir
with Nehru and United Nations
mediator Sir owen Dixon.
The local press concluded that
publication of Nehru's correspon-
dence with Generalissimo Stain
and us. Secretary of State Dean
Acheson meant the Indian leaders
Korean peace efforts had ended. A
Foreign Office spokesman declined
to comment on this possibility.
Stain had agreed with Nehru
that Communist China should be
admitted to the United Nations
Security Council as step toward
Korean peace. Acheson said the
us. felt the Korean and Chinese
questions should be settled separ-
ately.
The Indian News Chronicle
termed Acheson's reply another
diplomatic triumph for Commun-
ism "
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
H|RST-CH|CHAG0F
WILL n { OPEN,
50REN5EK Says
Fornir Big6oId Producer
Will Resume Operation
Closed Since 1913

Good news for Juneau is the an
nouncement by Paul M. Sorensen
that he is about to reopen the
Hirst- Chichagof mine on Kimsham
Cove.
Sorensen, who arrived in Juneau
yesterday by Pan American with
Mrs. Sorensen and their young
daughter. is engineer and general
manager of the Hirst, closed down
in l943 when gold mining was sus-
pended by the War Production
Board.
With the mine returning to OPP
Grafton, it viii be the only gold mine
producing in southeast Alaska at
the present time Only lack of labor
in the territory has prevented an
earlier resumption of operation, Mr..
Sorensen said.
For many years the Hirst-Chi-
cagof was the second largest hard
rock gold producer in Alaska, sec
ond only to the Alaska Juneau.
Later it was lowered to third place
by the Independence mine of the
Alaska Consolidated.
Closed down since 1913, the mine
has been kept up by maintenance
crew and Mr. Sorensen said today
he expected to be in full produc-
ton during the winter. Some of his
key men are returning to work with
him and plans include the rehabili-
tation of the Chichagof power plant
that furnished power for both the
Hirst and Chichagof mines.
Crew of Sixty
At its top production the Hirst
had a crew of 60 with the mill OPP
Grating three shifts and the mine
two.
Fifty tons of ore day were
milled by amalgamation and flo
tation process.
Only the fact that the Hirst-
] Chichagof has high grade ore makes
! possible the opening of the mine
3 at this time.
"Our dividends will not be as large
aas they were in the past, but the
directors and agree that we should
be able to operate now and return
reasonable profit"
Since leaving Alaska Mr.. Soren-
sen has continued engineering and
mining. During the war, as army
Major Sorensen, with combat troops
he secured coal mines in Germany
and held them until joined by oc-
cupational forces In the Aachen
area, he and the men working with
him, were operating in mine tun-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20

BUYERS, TR0LLERS
SIGN AGREEMENT
ON C0K0 PRICES

Representatives of five fish buy
ing firms today signed an agree
ment with the United Trollers of
Alaska, Local 100, to pay a mini
mum of % cents per pound for
coho salmon and to increase by two
cents per pound the minimum prices
on small red kings and white kings.
This marks the first time in the
history of the trollers' organiza-
ton that minimum price agree
ment on coho salmon has been
made.
The 22-cent price goes into effect
Immediately. Andy Barlow, execu-
tive secretary of the UTA said after
the meeting here today.
The new minimum is an increase
of one cent per pound over the av-
erage dockside prices yesterday.
At meeting held July between
buyers and the trollers' union, prices
of IL cents per pound on the ground
and Is cents at dockside were Of
fered. The trollers' union refused
this offer.
A final meeting was set for to-
day.
At the first meeting, the buyers
stated that the size and quality of
the fish in the coho runs could not
be determined at such an early
date, but would be known by today.
The agreement on small red
kings and white kings increased the
minimum prices on small reds to
% cents and on whites to % cents.
Buyers present at the negotiating
session today were Jack johnson,
New England Fish Company; Al
Whitmarsh, Polar Fisheries; Ed c.
Johnson, Oxenburg; Wallis George,
Alaska Coast Fisheries, and Elton
Engstrom, Engstrom Brothers.
Representing the trollers' union
were Barlow; B. H. Manery, o. G.
Nolde, Carl Jensen, and Carl Weld
man, Juneau; Paul Binkley, Wran-
CELL; AL Brookman, Sitka; and Nels
Nelson, Ketchikan.
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IS
VOTED BACK
TO THRONE

BRUSSELS. July 20-Rt-King-
Leopold III was voted back to his
throne by the Belgian Parliament
today.
He has been in exile in Switzer-
land since the war. The question of
bringing him back split Belgium
badly for months, with the Social
lists particularly being bitterly OPP
posed to his return.
A joint session of both Houses of
Parliament, cast 1873 affirmative
votes for Leopold's return. with
most opposition Socialists, Liberals
and Communists abstaining in pro-
test. There are 387 members in both
Houses.
The decision was on legislation to
end the regency of Prince Charles.
Leopold's brother.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
GEN. DEAN
ABSENT"
AT FRONT
Whereabouts Of Fighter Is
Unknown al American
Command Post
BY WILLIAM X. MOORE

AN AMERICAN COMMAND
POST IN KOREA, July 20|Rl-
The whereabouts of Gen. William F..
Dean, whose oath Division was
withdrawing from Taejon, was I'M
known tonight.
Il don't know where General
Dean is" said headquarters
spokesman. That does not mean
that he is missing
The big, fighting General has
been at the front all day. At one
time he was seen out with tank
destroying squad. His ground fight
ers during the battle had knocked
out eight of 10 North Korean tanks
with 3.5 inch rocket launchers.
The spokesman said at 900 pm.
(6:20 am, EST that about so per-
cent of the American units in the
Taejon area succeeded in making a
fairly orderly withdrawal"
One gun position may have been
"cut up rather badly" he said.
In addition to the eight Red tanks
hit by the 3.5 inch ground-fired
rockets, air strike reports showed
that Allied planes knocked out five
more in the outlying approaches"
to Taejon.
One of the eight tanks had pulled
up near the command post OF the
34th Infantry Regiment and was
firing in all directions when some
ON went up to the roof of the COM
mand post and knocked it out with
a rocket" the Army officer said.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
REGULATIONS FOR
WATERFOWL SHOOTING
TO BE OUT AUGUST 26

Waterfowl hunting regulations for
the 195O-51 season will be issued
about August 26, a month later than
usual, it was announced today by
G.. Howard Baltic, assistant re-
gional director for the Fish and
Wildlife Service.
The added time is to give more
time for flyway biologists on the
northern breeding grounds to send
in their latest information and for
it to be analysed, he said.
Season in this area opens October
l or whereabouts. The definite date,
which will presumably be the same,
will be named when the regulations
come out.
This new announcement involves
not only waterfowl in Alaska. but
also coot, as well as birds which fly
to northeast states, such as scooter,
elder, old squaw ducks, doves, and
rails.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Prince George from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive tomorrow after
noon.
Princess Norah from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive Saturday after
noon.
Alaska from Seattle scheduled to
arrive Sunday.
Chilcotin scheduled to sail from
Vancouver tonight.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Saturday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
Aleutian from westward due
southbound Sunday.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
Bristol Bay Is Closed
After Is Fishing Days;
One area Still Open

Afte. only a few hours more than
Is days fishing time, three areas of
Bristol Bay were closed to fishing
last night by the Fish and Wildlife
Service.
Three areas were affected by the
order, brought about by insufficient
eScapement to the upstream spawn
ing grounds and a poor run gener-
ally.
Only area mot affected is that in
Ugashik, where two canneries op-
Grated by Lemuel G. Wingard will
go on until July %, according to
present plans.
However, Wingard may find him
self deluged with boats coming in
from the closed areas, and his
stream may have to close much
earlier than that.
The three closed areas, with esti-
mated times they had for fishing
are: Nushagak, Is days, 2 hours;
Egegik, IL days, 20 hours; Kvichak-
Naknek, Is days, 9 hours.
The season opened for the three
areas on June IS, less than a month
ago. The area now remaining oper
didn't get started until June %.
The Bays run this year, which
packed 1892 cases up to July Is
and expected to touch perhaps
100000 cases when the final fig
ures are in, has been poor, operators
have said.
Frank Hynes, fisheries supervisor
for the Fish and Wildlife Service
said he was informed by one op-
orator that between July and {
sharp run was experienced, but
before and since lit has dropped
to Zero"
The areas would ordinarily stay
open until around July 25. This
early closure is hoped to bring
escapement up to around 5O0,00l
fish, according to an estimate by C
Howard Baltic, assistant regiona
director of the service.
If this occurs, Baltic said, it will
mean an extremely healthy run
when the 1850 cycle repeats itsel
five years hence.
The closure is in effect until
am. August 3, when the sockeyt
run disappears, and dogs and othel
lower grade salmon appear in thu
streams.
Closures varied in each area be-
cause of the added number of boat
working out of each cannery, Hyne'
explained. Week end closures o
SO hours and mid-week closures O
"a hours were in effect in each re
CARELESS of conditions, but thes
were heightened from time to tim
because of heavy catches.
In some areas, IL minutes extr;
closing was tackled on for each boat
and in other areas, 20 minutes extr;
was placed into effect. This ex
plains the difference in length o
each areas fishing time The Egegil
area had the most vessels, ant
hence had the shortest FISHING
hours.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
COUNCIL 10 ANNOUNCE
STARTING DATE FOR TAX

A starting date for collection of
the Juneau sales tax will definitely
be announced at the regular meet
ing of the City Council tomorrow
night at 8 o'clock in the City Hall,
Mayor Waino Hendrickson said to-
lay.
Further work will be done on
sales tax rules and regulations by
the council, and committee reports
will also be given.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
EXAMINATIONS BY
MERIT SYSTEM TO
BE HELD SATURDAY

Approximately 10 persons are
scheduled to take the Alaska Merit
System examinations for Senior
Clerk Typist and Senior Clerk
Stenographer on Saturday morning,
July %. Examinations are being
given in the high schools in Fair
banks, Anchorage. Ketchikan and
Juneau.
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new CAPITAL
WRITTEN OFF,;
VALLEY AFIRE
First Phase Of Struggle Is
Over : Bad Morale in
Communist Forces
(By the Associated Press)


The Communists hurled q strong
offensive into Taejon today and
the us. oath Division was reported
withdrawing in heavy fighting from
the flaming key rail and highway
junction in South Korea.
A broadcast by NBC from Tokyo
said Taejon already had fallen. A
us. Eighth Army spokesman said
the hard-pressed Gath Division still
held the city at the end of the days
fighting, but a dispatch from a COM
mand post said the division was on
Its way out. BY 900 pm, Korean
time, spokesman said, SO percent
of American units In the Taejon
area succeeded in making a fairly
orderly withdrawal"
The Americans apparently were
falling back to the Kumchon area
where a new stand will be made.
But despite the retreat--it had been
predicted Gen. Macarthur an
nounced that the North Korean al
ready had lost their "one great
chance" for victory by failing to
flatten South Korea before the ar
rival of the Americans in strength.
Two fresh American divisions now
are protecting the approaches to
Kumchon against a Communist
push in the east coast and central
.ectors. Armen reported heavy Red
concentrations. Of tanks and arlil-
lery in the central sector.
Reds Wrap Defenders
The Communists threw an en-
yeloping movement around the west
flank of the defending forces in
the Taejon area. stabbing out from
captured Iri'to take Chonju, roughly
40 air miles southwest of Taejon.
Allied airmen raked the Commun-
lists in this area The Red strength
there is unknown. Fire bombs
rained on Kumje, near Chonju.
The Communist, drive in the Tae-
jon area, backed by tremendous
artillery fire which ignited the
whole city. was dented by the new
American ground rockets. Ground
forces knocked out IL enemy tanks
in the area in "a hours.
Valley Attire
The whole Taejon valley area
was alive with fire as Red artillery
doomed and Allied planes merci-
lessly pasted the enemy. Taejon.
from which the South Korea pro-
vision government has fled, has
been virtually written off for sew
eral days.
1t was the first Communist at
tack in force ON the bloody Kun
river front since the invaders won
their foothold on the south bank
On the east coast. Yongdok. taken
by the Reds yesterday. also was in
flames from the mauling fire of
Allied warships and planes. Yong
dok is rs miles north of the expand
ing beachhead at Pohang where the
mechanical First Cavalry Division
landed South Korean troops
mounted an attack in the Yongdok
sector.
In the central sector Allied fighter
bombers hit two Red tanks in a
column between Tangyang and
Hamchang which has been pushing
in the direction of Kumchon astride
American supply lines to Taejon.
I. The First Cavalry and the 25th
Infantry-the latter already has
tasted battle-swung into position
for expected Red pushes down the
eastern side Of the Korean PENN,
sula
so Planes Destroyed +,
Behind the fronts Allied carrier
and land based planes caught the
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
Marine Reserve Ground
Units Are Being Called
To Active Duty al Once

WASHINGTON, July 20 - R -
The Marine Corps announced today
that "all organized Marine Reserve
ground units are being called to
active duty" The Navy said it was
calling several" air reserve units to
active duty,
These first calls to the reserve
came as the Army made known it
was preparing to send additional
regular troops to Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's Far Eastern Command.
The Marines first announced
that all organized ground reserve
forces had been notified to be
prepared to go on active duty on
10 days notice.
Later, spokesman said: THE
call to active duty is now going out
to all ground reserve units"
He said that for security rea-
sons" it would not be possible, at
least for the time being, to give out
a list of units or other information,
including the ''call up" date for each
unit.
Army Plans
The Army announced that it has
alerted combat and supporting
units from each of the six con-
tinental Army areas for movement
in the near future to the Far East.
These are Regular Army troops.
The Navy said it could not an
nounce the reserve air units called
to duty, the number of men, or
the designation of their units.
Similarly, an Army spokesman
said there would be no elaboration
as to the numbers or designations OF
the units it has alerted for move
ment to the Far East.
Army Statement
The Army statement said: "Sev.
eral combat and supporting units
from each of the six Army areas
in addition to those previously am
nounced, have been alerted fol
movement in the near future to the
Far East Command"
The six Army Commanders have
their headquarters at the following
points: list Army. Governors Is
land. NY; End Army. TT. Meade
Md; Bird Army, Ft. Mcpherson
near Atlanta, Ga; 4th Army. FIT
Sam Houston. San Antonio. Tex;
5th Army, Chicago and 9th Army
San Franc.
Navy Recalling
The Navy statement said, THE
Navy is recalling several units Of
the organized air reserve to active
duty Immediately"
A briefing officer said that thu
forders had already gone out to thu
selected units. He emphasized tina
this was not warning or alert,
but formal recall to immediate
active duty.
The Navy air reserve is organized
around 81 air stations and include:
more than $50 fully organized squad
ronS.
These units are organized intt
fighter, attack. patrol, transport
composite and lighter than-ail
squadrons. - at
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
WESTERN EUROPE
A5T0NI5HED OVER
PRESIDENTS CALI
(By Associated Press

Western Europe hailed President
Truman's mobilization call as an
historic move in the fight against
Communist aggression, and many in
Europe expressed establishment at
the broad sweep of the Presidents
program.
The Communist press, apparently
still awaiting direction from Mos
COW as it does in most major issues,
commented cautiously.
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Washington,
July II, 1850.

Odiy 4OcO.
Dear Son,
1t is a wet, rainy midnight and
I can't sleep. So I am in the
office at my typewriter, with the
kittens trying to crawl up my pa
jana leg 1t isn't the rain that
keeps me awake, but some OF the
problems facing the world, and the
fact that you and lot of other
boys may soon have to go off to
a strange and distant battlefront
called Korea.
So Il have been wondering how
YOU, who will soon celebrate your
18th birthday, and lot of other
boys around that age must feel
when you have to grow up, go to
school and plan your lives with a
sword literally hanging over your
head.
1 know a little bit about this,
because / was in college when we
entered World War l. That, how
ever, was the first war America
had fought in long time, and to
most OF us it was a glorious and
exciting adventure. We did not
know at that time 1t was to be
but the beginning of series of
wars. So we enjoyed the parades
and all the national enthusiasm,
and 1 remember wildly how dis
appointed some of us, who had
been picked for officers training
camp, were when the Armistice
whistles blew. We even kept on
M IIcalYl
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
MONTANANS VISIT

William Weneapaw and Tom
Styles of Grand Falls, Mont, are
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
Another Montanan there is C. r.
VoSe of Big Timber.