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Kodiak mirror., 1950-08-26
Town Tidbits

! @S~SS NNA@N>SsJ - O. oNF SN AAS diak men, all of whom do the same kind of work. went on a picnic to Woody Island. After the ball games, the men (there were women along too I of course) decided to open the i cans of beer and bottles of pop they had brought for refresh ments. There wasn't a can opener in their midst! The group? The Kodiak bartend- CTS! !
 We haven't had any vege- tables brought to the MIR ROR office since our offer last week to display them in lieu of a garden show, but we have heard of some fine cab bages. Mrs. Charles Sutliff is bragging apout hers, and Mrs. Jack Mann raised some nice ones on her mothers Holiday Island.
 Talking about produce, the salmon berries seem to be rather nil this year. They are reportedly out, but in rather poor condition and not too tasty.
 Squawker, the Baptist Mis- sion pet magpie, knows his masters voice, especially when it is augmented with a handful of popcorn! The two- month old magpie escaped it's keepers and rode into town on the Mission truck, whose oc- cupants couldn't get him back on it after he flew off and under Knudsen's Fountain. l Later Bill Stone, Mission superintendent, came into / town, stopped in front of Knudsen's, called "Squaw- ker" once, and held out a handful of popcorn. The bird came to him immediately, he took it into the fountain, called the Mission and let Squawker squawk once for the happpy kids. ..
 Anybody lose two cans of aerial film? They were found one day this week under a tree by Rasmus o. Urdahl. :! Urdahl, who decided to cut down a small, stunted tree in
 his front yard, kneeled down.. pulled aside the bushy bottom branches and prepared to chop. But he stopped. Lying there hidden under the branches were two bright
 cylinders that looked like
 bombs. Urdahl decided he
 didt't care to move them, let
 alone stay near them. When
 two navy chiefs who are
 neighbors came home that
 evening, he led them to the
 tree. The two cylinders turned
 out to be two cans of unex-
 posed aerial film. marked
 NOE, Kodiak, Alaska, and
 were returned to the base by
 the navy men.
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Kodiak mirror., 1950-08-26

A quarterly business meet ing of the Community Baptist Church was held at the church Wednesday evening.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-08-26

Mrs. Jack Mann and her daughter Feather left by PIMA Tuesday to return to their Anchorage home. Her son Jackie will return next week.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-08-26

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Evening star., 1950-12-14
Featured Reading
Inside Todoy's Star

THE WAeE-PRlcE CONTROL PIC.
TURE-Whot lies oheod in the motter
Of economic controls, and whot it all will
neon to your poeketbook is expIoined
by Stor Stoff Reporter jones Y. Newton
on Pose Ais.
ROADS TO SPECIAL LEARNING
Roised dots on pose thot neon new
light for dorkened lives. Teaching
Broille reading to neor-blind children at
District public schools is the subject Of
another in the series on special school
closes on Poee C-6.
vIRGlNlA's SEWAGE PROBLEM
Arlinston's sewage experts ore skeptieoI
Of joining facilities with other Virginia
communities or with the District. Their
findings ore discussed by Stor Reporter
Jones BirchfieId on Page B-l.
HERE AND ABROAD WITH D. c.,
SERVlcEMEN - Washington readers
keep up with the boys in uniform on
the Koreon fighting front and else
where. Their nomes, outfits and ex-
ploits ore noted on Poee E-2.
NEW FACES IN coNGREsS-A
freshmen Representative with on un-
usuoI background in the workings of
Government is Marguerite Stitt Church,
who takes over her Iote husbands place
representing illinois. She is introduced
todoy aIons with her fellow Republican
Fred E. Busbey and Democrat John e.
KIuczynski on Pose D-6.
Evening star., 1950-12-14
Senate Leadership Fight Due;
|O'Mohoney's Name in Ring

a recent dinner in honor of a re.
firing Senator. There were II
Senators from the West. South
and East present when, accord.
ing to Senator Hunt. Senator
O'Mahoney was persuaded to al.
low his name to 60 before the
Democratic caucus, not as an &C.
tive candidate. but as willing tt
accept his responsibility to hi
party and to the Nation if hi.
Democratic colleagues see fit to se
honor him.
Senator Hunt said the 16 at the
dinner were unanimously for SEN
ator O'Mahoney and they named
a committee Of four to conduct
his campaign.
Senator Hunt, named chairman
Of the committee, refused to re-
veal the other names or to identify
the retiring Senator for whom the
dinner was given.
Senator Hunt pointed out that
Senator O'Mahoney ranks eighth
among the Democrats in seniority
and in his 18 years in the Senate
has become "one of the outstand-
ing and most favorably known
men in public life."
The issue will be decided at a
conference of all 40 Democrats
who win be in the new Senate at
a meeting called for January 2.
Evening star., 1950-12-14
Latest Casualty Report
Shows Increase Of t,436
By the Associated Press

Announced American casualties
in the Korean war rose to 33,878
today, an increase of 1,436 in a
week.
Today's weekly summary, issued
by the Defense Department, re-
ported 5,870 deaths, of which 5,258
were killed in action, GOT died of
wounds, and S are now known to
be dead after previously being re-
ported missing in action.
It listed the wounded at 23,477
Gncluding the 607 who later died)
Missing in action: 5,143.
The new totals are based on
notifications to next of kin
through December 8, but probably
reflects few of the losses suffered
when United Nations forces were
hit by the huge Chinese Commu-
mist offensive.
This is because of the time lag
resulting from the notification
procedure. The first effects of
the enemy offensive probably will
begin to show in causautly reports
a week or two from now.
Evening star., 1950-12-14
CoIIazo Murder Trial
Sci for February 10

The first-degree murder trial OF
Oscar Collazo, Puerto Rican, who
tried to assassinate President Tru-
man on November l, was set fol-
February 19 by District Judge
Matthew F. MCGUIRE today.
Collazo, 81, is accused of the
fatal shooting of White House
Police Pvt. Leslie Coffelt while
trying to gain entrance to Blai1
House to reach the President. Col
lazo's accomplice, Griselio Tore.
sola, was killed in the assassina-
ton attempt.
Judge Mcclure declared he
would not allow delays by either
the defense or prosecution.
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay said the Government
expects to answer today defense
motions recently filed in behalf
of Collazo. One motion asks dis
missal of the Collazo indictment
and another asks for bill of par
ticulars.
Judge MCGUIRE said oral argu-
ments on the defense motions will
be heard either December % OF
January 8 and all legal moves
preliminary to the trial must be
disposed of by February Is. For
mer United States Attorney Lee
A. Rover heads defense counsel
Evening star., 1950-12-14

A real contest for Senate
Democratic leadership in the new
Congress developed today when
Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming
decided to let his name 60 before
the party conference,
Until this development, it had
appeared that Senator Mcfarland
of Arizona might get the post
without a fight.
When the election returns
showed Majority Leader Lucas OF
Illinois had been defeated, Sen
ator O'Mahoney's name was one
of the first mentioned. But he
said he was not a candidate and
thought the job should seek the
man. Since then, reliable reports
have indicated that most of the
Southerners would support Sen
ator Mcfarland.
The South has 90 of the 49
Democratic seats and if its mem
bers united they could come close
to naming the leader.
Tagging interest in the leader
ship question picked up today
when Senator Hunt, Democrat, of
wyoming put his colleagues hat
definitely in the ring.
Senator Hunt announced that
the decision to make, q fight for
Senator O'Mahoney developed at
Evening star., 1950-12-14
Single Word Could
Stort AH-Out War.
| Marshall Testifies

A single word from the
other side" could plunge this
country into an all-out war
with Communist China, in
the opinion of Defense Secre-
tary Marshall.
The general did not elab-
crate in testimony before a
House Appropriations Sub
committee on what such a
signal might be.
I'VE are trying to avoid in
every way that is conceiyably
within reason being projected
into an all-out war, and at
the So time we realize that
an all-os-~ war can be initiated
by a single word from the
other side. I think, along with
the saying while there's life
there's hope there is a hope"
He testified on December /,
two days after United Nations
forces offensive to drive the
Reds from Korea had COL
lapsed before the Chinese on
slaught.
Evening star., 1950-12-14

Soviet bloc countries cast ths
negative votes.
The proposal creates a three
man committee, headed by Assem-
bly, President Nasrollah Entezam
of Iran and directs it to seek a
basis for a truce. Mr.. Entezam
deferred naming the committee.
Russia's Jacob A. Malik vigor-
ously opposed it as a move to give
the United States and Britain a
chance to prepare a new attack,
Cling to Slender Hope.
Polish Delegate Stefan Wier-
blowski told the Assembly the
cease-fire proposal would not stop
the Korean fighting. This had
been assumed by most delegates
as a result of the Soviet bloc
opposition, but some had clung
to a slender hope that the Chi
nese Communists still might agree
to truce.
The 60-nation U. N. Political
Committee adopted the measure
yesterday, 81 to S, after a flood of
gloomy predictions that World
War III threatens unless the Chi
nese Communists heed the world
organization.
Mr.. Malik fought desperately to
defeat the measure, sponsored by
(Gno II NJ paon AL
Evening star., 1950-12-14

biggest jet-against-jet air battles
ever fought were waged during
the day. The jet dogfghts rem
dered no clear-cut decisions.
On the northeast beachhead the
United States Sd Division aban-
doned the town of Orc, 6 miles
north of Hamhung. and withdrew
into the slender perimeter strip
extending another miles to the
east coast port of Hungnam. It
is the United Nations last toe
hold in the northeast.
Puerto Rican troops attached to
the Sd Division dynamited three
spans of a 500-foot concrete bridge
ever the Songchon River after Orc
was abandoned. A railroad bridge
and two other spans on the outer
defense perimeter also were blasted.
These were the first reported
large demolitions on the outskirts
of the beachhead. Orc was in
flames from pre-dawn fighting.
This was believed to be the scene
Evening star., 1950-12-14
Fall From ScaffoIdinq
Kills |, Hurts Another
Public Must Prepare for PortioI Austerity.
McCobe Tells Bonkers. Poee Az

A workman was killed and a
second man injured today in a
four-story fall from scafolding at
an apartment project at 37O1
Connecticut avenue NV.
The dead man was identified as
John Jackson, colored. about IS,
of 1929 Union street NV. Police
said he fell from the Wiltshire
Parkway Apartments and was
killed instantly.
The injured man is Roger st.
John, jr., colored. 35, of 815
Twenty-second street NV. Police
said he broke his fall by grabbing
a timber and was not hurt seri-
ously. He was treated at nearby
clinic.
Police said injured man was
moving cart loaded with cement
from a lift about SO feet above
the ground to the building when
the runway gave way. They said
the cart struck some adjoining
scaffolding on which Mr.. Jackson
was working, sending a portion of
the scaffolding crashing to the
ground.
Evening star., 1950-12-14
Call metropolitan 6262
GUT VtEtTUPUIItuH OZ0Z
Will You Help Relieve
A Mothers Heortuche?
IAvIN CHILDREN sometimes brings such heartbreak Il

HAVING CHILDREN sometimes brings such heartbreak
II young Washington mother the other day said
Sometimes it's seemed as If just couldn't go on"
This mother has two boys The elder T. Is in school,
The younger who is almost couldn't be in ordinary school
even If he were old enough
This youngster whom Well call Bobby, started life in
incubator When he months old his parents discovered
white spots growing his eyes, Before he he
operations to remove cataracts
Now he about half much normal children
when close For distant objects his sight per
of normal He can't read televson recognize people,
LIE is also nearly deaf He hear a slam, a
shout His mother thinks something" when the
radio because pushes hand until
He can't hear ordinary conversation.
Bobby can't talk yet He must be led when he walks
still bottle and hasn't begun to chew His main
ton lying in the bright with his face turned toward
light
The for his plight is that his mother had German
measles when she pregnant
Bobhys have been told he is
reject this Now they starting something they hope will
help him grow up.
EVERY SATURDAY Bobby and his mother will go place
When he is ready he will learn to hearing aid Then
he will begin to learn how to obey commands speak
will take long time but Bobbys mother is unafraid.
They have sought-and found-help at the Washington
Hearing Society But the Washington Hearing Society can't
without money from the Community Chest Bobbys
parents can't afford to for themselves. That puts
to you.
Call the Chest Metropolitan put 3year-
Bobby your Christmas list
(See Bobbys Picture on Page Az
Evening star., 1950-12-14

a number of trains were routed
through the city to load and un-
load passengers at Silver Spring
and Alexandria. Trains which
did not require switching in the
terminal yard continued to move
in and out of the station without
difficulty.
Meanwhile, Government law
yers were studying the advisa-
bility of asking District Court to
issue an Injunction against the
striking railroad men similar to
the one obtained yesterday in
Chicago.
Conference Scheduled Today.
The strikes followed the same
pattern and union spokesmen said
they were caused by unrest among
the men because of the Govern
ment's inability to settle the four
month-old dispute over wages and
hours. The dispute caused the
Government to take over almost
all the Nations Class / railroads
in August and place them under
Army operation.
Presidents of the four big rail-
road brotherhoods are scheduled
to confer with John r. Steelman,
President Truman's assistant, at
the White House today in an
effort to settle the wage-hour
issue. The unions want 40-hour
week with 48 hours pay.
A union spokesman said resort
to court action by the Govern
ment would serve only to prolong
the strike. He said the Brother
hood had ordered the Chicago
strikers back to work before the
court order was obtained. The
injunction made the men mad
Evening star., 1950-12-14
Security BIoekout
Ordered by Allies
In Northeast Korea
BY the Asseeiated Press

A security blackout has
been placed by the Allied mill
tary command on the general
situation in Northeast Korea,
along with a general tighten
ing up on military informa-
ton throughout Korea.
There is still no formal CEN
sorship, but correspondents
have been handed a list of
suggestions" These include
the admonitions that no in
formation be given concern
ing planned activities or
moves in progress, and that
no reports of activities or To-
cations of friendly forces be
made except in terms of divi-
sions, units or separate forces,
and then only when such
forces are in firm contact with
the enemy.
Headquarters spokesmen
have refused to make any
further publishable state
ments on the ground that
such explanatory details
might jeopardize security.
Evening star., 1950-12-14
"a Soviet-Made
Craft in Battle
Near Manchuria
Appearance Indicates
Aim to Utilize Full
Power, Pentoeon Says
bv John A. Giles
By John A. Giles

An Air Force spokesman said
today there are indications that
the Communist forces are start
ing to wage an all-out air war
against United Nations troops in
Korea.
The spokesman told reporters
at the regular Pentagon briefing
that enemy air activity and effec-
tiveness has increased since De-
cember 6 and then stated:
Indications are that the enemy
may now intend to exploit fully
his air potential concurrently with
his ground successes.
THE pattern now unfolding
may reveal a steadily increasing
tempo of air activity as additional
aircraft become available from
Communist China or the Soviet
Union"
Air Battle Fought in Korea.
He said the information came
from reports received from the
Far East and that it was released
here in answer to queries.
A dispatch from Korea today
said "a Russian-made MIG-15 jet
fighters and four American jet
Shooting Stars fought a battle
near Siniju in Northwest Korea.
None of the American planes was
reported damaged. The United
States pilots said one Communist
plane was hit.
The United Nations forces in
Korea might be particularly vul-
nerable to air attack in their
present positions - concentrated
in relatively small areas, espe-
cially in the northeast, where they
have only a small beachhead
around the port of Hungnam.
The Air Force spokesman's sug-
gestion that the Communists are
planning all-out air war noted
that from the beginning of the
Korean fighting. until about No
vember l, enemy air strength did
little.
Change Occurred Nov. 1.
On November /, "a marked
change occurred" with the first
appearance of the Russian-made
MIG-15 jet fighters in aerial COM
bat. he went on.
Then on December 6, enemy Jets
for the first time began pressing
attacks on United States B-29
formations.
Until the stepup in Red Air
Force action, there was almost no
comparison between United Ma
tions and Communist air activity.
The spokesman said that from
June Is through December only
sos sorties were known to have
been flown by the Communists.
A sortie is one flight by one
plane.
During the same time the Amer
ican Far Eastern Air Force flew
approximately $4,000 sorties, not
including sorties flown by Navy
and Marine planes based on air.
craft carriers. The grand total
of sorties by the United Nations
forces probably was well over 10O,-
600, the spokesman said.
Evening star., 1950-12-14
Postal Officials Study
Emergency Flights
For Regular Mail
Moy Place Emboreo
On Some Parcel Post
If Tieup Continues

Postal officials today said they
were considering flying some regu.
lar mail out of Washington ane
slapping a partial embargo on par.
eel post as the wildcat strike
among railroad employees spread
Assistant Postmaster Genera
John M. Redding said that 8
Nation-w wide embargo might bt
necessary on bulk mailings as the
railway walkouts at strategic cen.
ters is effectively crippling the
mail distribution system"
He said that within a few hours
the decision would have to be
made whether to order post Offices
to stop accepting packages fol-
transcontinental delivery and
movement between the North and
South.
Christmas mail all over the
country is expected to total 6.5
billion pieces. 3 billion of which
already have been moved. The
tpeak is expected to come Sunday
Meanwhile, the mounds of hol-
iday parcels and letters were
growing at Union Station, BY
noon II loaded postal cars were
sitting idly because they could
not be moved to unloading plat
forms.
Nair G. Maxon, chief of the
Postal Transportation Service here
said if some settlement was not
made soon much first class, spe-
cial delivery, special handling and
newspaper mail would have to be
flown to cities such as Chicago
st. Louis and Pittsburgh.
We'll use any planes we can
get our hands on" he declared.
Trucks Being Used.
Mr.. Maxon added that mail fol
nearby districts in Maryland and
Virginia would be trucked, if nee
essary. He pointed out that local
mail still was being dumped at
Union Station but that the bulk
mail situation was terrific"
1T may become necessary tc
truck much of the bulk mail from
the post Offices rather than bring
ing it here to Union Station" he
said.
Some mail is being loaded ano
unloaded at Union Station, despite
the switchmen's Walkout. Trains
having postal cars and whose ter
minus is Washington are unloaded
then reloaded with mail as we'll as
passengers and sent back on theil
regular run.
Other trains, however, requiring
switching iE the Union Station
are unloading Washington mail
in such places as Baltimore, Sill
yer Spring and Alexandria. This
mail Is being trucked into the
Capital.
One action postal officials are
taking, with the hope it will be
an effective solution, is the add
ing of postal cars on incoming
trains at outlying stations. Thus,
il a postal car was available at
Alexandria, it could be put on a
southbound train.
Evening star., 1950-12-14
Freight Embargo
Hinted as Shipments
Pile Up in Yards
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. IA
The Pennsylvania Railroad
ordered sharp curtailments in
its passenger service today in
the face of a spreading strike
of railroad yard workers.
A source close to the situa-
ton said freight was "piling
up" in yards throughout the
PRR system. particularly at
Chicago. The source. who re-
fused to be identified by name,
said something will have to
be done" and indicated an en-
barge might be ordered this
| afternoon.
Evening star., 1950-12-14
Marshall Asks
More Billions
|For Services
Vinson Forecasts
Army Of a Million
By Middle of 1852

The fighting in Korea has
"milked our resources in men and
skills very heavily" and additional
billions of dollars will be needed
for the armed services this fiscal
year. Defense Secretary Marshall
has told Congress.
The release today of his testi-
mony before a House Appropria-
tions Subcommittee followed dis
closure late yesterday by Chair
man Vinson of the House Armed
Services Committee that the
buildup of the services might run
as high as million men by mid
1852 and that 35 million would
be under arms next year.
Gen. Marshall did not mention
any such figure in his testimony
on December -four days after
the collapse of the United Nations
Korean offensive. In defending
President Truman's request for an
additional $18 billion for defense
and atomic energy this year
bringing to $418 billion the total
outlay-the Secretary said "our
goal. until this most recent act of
aggression, has been 2.8 million
by the end of the current fiscal
year
Need to Raise Sights.
Now we face the necessity of
having to raise our sights, both
in terms Of manpower and terms
OF production" he declared. "I
feel that we are going to have to
come in here again after we have
gone further into the situation
and have seen how it develops"
Gen. Bradley, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs Of Staff, told the
same subcommittee that, while
heretofore the planners had con-
sidered 1854 "the most dangerous
period" recent developments had
caused them to move the time
when the United States should
reach peak peacetime strength to
1852. And the 1882 fiscal period
which begins next July /, will
bring even larger military expen-
ditures. the officials agreed.
Secretary Marshall informed
the committee that he did not,
however, favor an all-out war mo-
bilization at this time. He feared
that Communist pressures-"s SEEM
ingly trying to stir us into a situa-
ton where we become heavily in
volved, practically in an all-out
war"-might ease up after the
mobilization had taken place.
Called Serious Matter.
THAT is very serious matter
in many ways" he continued.
"Psychologically there is the re-
action of the American people
Financially it is serious.
would feel very much concerned
if we plunge into an all-out war;
time mobilization until we clearly
have to do it. At the same time
would be even more concerned
If we did not establish a well-laid
foundation and base for a very
rapid mobilization if that becomes
necessary"
Gen. Marshall saw the present
budget as strong base of de-
parture, we'll planned and well
conceived" from which to move
on to total mobilization when
necessary. He and other military
leaders told the lawmakers that
production of arms and eouip-
ment was stressed in the supple
mental request and Gen. j. Law
ton Collins. Army Chief of Staff
commented that this fact was "a
great step forward-I have been
more concerned about material
than about men,"
And at another point, Gen. Col
Inns said that the expenditure of
certain types of artillery ammuni-
(See DEFENSE, Page A-15)
Evening star., 1950-12-14
Bulletin
Meade Withdrows Plea

MIAMI (P. Don Meade,
stormy petrol of racing, ended
a hot controversy today by
tearfully withdrawing his ap-
plicati0n for reinstatement as
q jockey. The State Racing
Commission announced Satur-
day that Meade would be given
. years probationary license.