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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
New Trial Is Ordered, Case
 Judith (opIon

NEW YORK. Dec. 6-tR-The conviction of Judith Coplon on charges of being Russian spy has been reversed by a Federal Court of Appeals. However. the court de- clared that her guilt is plain" and refused to dismiss the indictment. It ordered a new trial.
 The Second Circuit Court of Ap- peals yesterday ordered the new trial for the comedy 29-year-old Brooklyn resident on grounds that her arrest without a warrant was illegal. FBI wiretapping also was a factor in the reversal.
 Miss Coplon, former Department of Justice employee, and Valentin A. Gubitchev, 33-year-old Russian engineer and suspended United Na- tions employee. were convicted last March. They were found guilty of conspiring to transmit secret de- fense information.
 Each was sentenced to IS years in prison. Because of the tense in- ternational situation, Gubitchev was allowed to return to his native Rus sie-"never to return"-instead of serving his term. He relinquished the right of appeal.
 His brunette and attractive CO., efendant-married to one of her lawyers after her conviction-has been free in $20,000 bail pending appeal. She also is appealing sen- tence of 40 months to ten years inn posed previously on Washington, DC, conviction of stealing govern ment secrets. Yesterdays reversal here does not affect the Washing ton conviction.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
Tax Exemption Was
 Sought by Producers
 Of Essential Minerals

WASHINGTON. Dec. 6 - R = Producers of all strategic, critical and essential minerals should be granted exemptions under the ex- cess profits tax bill, Rep. D'Ewart (R-Mont) argued yesterday.
 He told the House that the legis- lation which later was passed and sent to the Senate exempts corpo- rations producing IA listed minerals and that this is fine and sensible as far as it goes."
 But he added:
 Tt appears wholly illogical, in- consistent and detrimental to the needs of the economy and defense production program of the United States to exclude copper, lead, zinc. bauxite and all other strategic, critical and essential minerals from the exemption provided under ]. the proposed law"
 D'EWart said there are no known deposits in the United States of three of the IA minerals capable of commercial exploitation. He named the three as platinum. tin and tan- talum.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06

EXCESS PROFITS
 TAX MEASURE IS
 PASSED BY HOUSE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 - R - A huge excess profits tax bill bear ing 378-2O House approval faced the prospect today of major op- erations in the Senate.
 Senator George D-Ga), Chair man of the tax-writing Senate Fi- nance Committee, predicted some drastic changes for the measure in the Senate, but he voiced confidence that Congress still will send the measure to President Truman be- fore the New Year.
 Lopsided House passage came late yesterday. The real test came on Republican effort to substitute a drafted tax bill for that being pushed by the Administration. Vot- ing on party lines, the House beat down the COP version 252 to 145
 The 20 who voted No" on final passage were all Republicans.
 The House bill would impose a 75 percent tax on corporation profits which exceed 85 percent of the av- craze earnings in the three best of the four years 1946 through 1949. The levy would apply to earnings since last July 1.
 The Senate Finance Committee is known to be taking a long look at the House formula.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
ROSS DIES GIvINC0UT
 NEWS INFO
President Truman's Off. eiaI Secretary Expires
 Suddenly df Desk

WASHINGTON, Dec. G. R - Charlie Ross, President Truman's official voice in day to day con- tacts with newsmen, is dead.
 The Presidents press secretary succumbed at $50 pm. yesterday of heart attack He was 65.
 A kind, gentle, sentimental news paperman, Charles G. Ross was catapulted into national prominence when his boyhood friend, Harry s. Truman, became President of the United States.
 As he would have wished it, Ross died at his desk and, more important, as a reporter.
 Tt was characteristic of Charlie Ross that he was holding a press conference when the summons came" MT. Truman said in a state ment. He fell at his post, a cas- ualty of his fidelity to duty and his determination that our people should know the truth, and all the truth, in these critical times"
 Ross, long an ace reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch-hao just reported to about 40 newsmeri on the second conference of the President and Prime Minister Att lee.
 Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham. the Presidents physician, rushed up from the White House basement. but he said later The was gone be- fore I got there"
 Graham said Ross had had a series of heart attacks, the last major one about two months ago. But not even some of the press secretary's closest friends were aware of this.
 The President and Ross grew up together in Independence, Mo. where Ross was born.
 As a newspaperman, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1881 for a story on the depression outlook.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
FEDERAL HELP TO MINING OPERATORS pR0MI5ED BY DINA
Field Headquarters in Al. aska Will Be Estab-
 Iished in Juneau

NEW YORK, Dec. 6@R-James Boyd, chief of the new Defense Minerals administration, promised full federal help today to mining operators who will increase pro- duction of defense materials.
 Boyd told the annual meeting of the American Mining Congress last night that the new DINA, under the Department of Interior, can help mine operators
 1. Get a government guarantee of private loan for mining work.
 2. Get a government loan.
 3. Obtain contracts for disposing of their output at satisfactory prices.
 A fourth method of obtaining aid is available under the Internal Rev. enue Act of 1950 This allows an operator to apply part of his in- come tax against payments for his plant or for his equipment under certain conditions. This aid is avail able through the National Securities Resources Board
 we must get the maximum pro- duction possible, every available pound. from existing facilities inn mediately," Boyd said. Second, we must make concentrated efforts to find additional deposits of ore"
 Applications for government assistance should be sent to him at the Interior Department, Wash ington, Boyd said.
 The DINA will not maintain field staff but will rely upon the Bureau of Mines Geological Survey teams in various districts.
 Among field headquarters to be established will be ones at Juneau, Alaska. Spokane. Wash, and San Francisco.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
BRITISH FLAG TO FLY WITH U.S.FLAG
 TO LAST IN KOREA
Att|ee Makes PIedge-A Says No Appeasement'
 10 Connie China

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 - R - Prime Minister Attlee of Britain declared today there will be Inc appeasement" of Communist China in an effort to halt the Korean fighting.
 We all know from our own bitter experience that appeasement does not pay" he told a National Press Club luncheon.
 Attlee departed from a prepared text to make this statement and tc deny flatly reports that his govern men intends to "appease" the Chi nese Communists.
 He said:
 T have been told there are some people that believe that is what I came here for. That is not true"
 Speaking slowly to a standing room-only audience. Attlee touched off big burst of applause when he said Britain intends to stand by the United States in Korea.
 He pledged that so long as "the Stars and Stripes fly in Korea the British flag will fly beside them"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
The W Washington Merry Go Round
Copyright. lSS0. by Bell eynoicate. Incl
 By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON = Sometimes I think Washington has a hard time catching its breath between wars. Around the corner from where I live is an old barrack, built to house Northern nurses during the Civil War. Built hastily, it was to be torn down after the Civil War, but the city grew, housing space was scarce. It is still there, revamp- ed, cut up into apartments. Down New York and Maryland Avenues are other barracklike buildings built during World War I, also to have been torn down afterward. Again the city grew, office space was scarce. The buildings are still there ugly, cold in winter, hot in sum- mer, the remnants of war. Behind the White House, along the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, in Poto- mac Park are more temporary buildings built during World War II, scarring the landscape like the scars of war. Now, with the news from Korea-more government ex- pansion, more broken homes. more ruined lives, more war.
 Washington is paradoxical place in wartime. On the surface nobody is ruffled, nobody seems to give a hang. Harry Truman has about the same list of callers, many from Missouri-Judge Bennett Clark, formery of St. Louis, Bill Boyle of Kansas City, Congressman Boiling
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
TR0LLERS TO PRESENT
 DE(lS0N TO HALIBUT
 COMMISSION MEETING

Nominations for United Trollers of Alaska officers for the coming year and discussion on halibut took place at a meeting held last night in the CIO Hall here.
 Renominated for executive secre- tary for all union branches was Andy Barlow; for executive council members for Local 100 Board, was o. G. Nolde. Homer Saxman was nominated for branch financial se- cretary; Carl Weidman, Cliff Ma ;on, Ken Willard and Herb Savikko Or the branch auditing committee.
 There was a lengthy discussion )n the different prices paid for salmon in the different ports. It is he contention of all the UTA branches that equal prices be paid at all ports during the fishing sea- son, using the Ketchikan Fish Ex- change as a basic minimum.
 It was agreed that Local 100 pre- sent a resolution to the Interna- tional Halibut Commission meet ing on January 25 in Seattle, a re- quest to allow trollers to sell at least part of incidentally y-caught halibut.
 The resolution read: That all incidentally-caught halibut taken by trollers during the entire season of trolling, be allowed to be sold rather than thrown overheard as now practiced. We feel that the trollers should be allowed at least certain percentage of halibut caught incidentally with a reason able amount of salmon. This should be allowed to salmon trollers as well as the blackcod fishermen who are permitted IA percent of halibut caught incidentally sn blackcod fishing"
 The trollers believe chat most of the halibut that are thrown back into the sea after being caught on troller line. die and are thereby wasted.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
CASH AWARDS FOR BEST CHRISTMAS
 WINDOW DISPLAYS

Window decorators are racking their brains to dream up winning Christmas displays.
 Dr. John Clements, chairman of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce Christmas decorations committee announced today that cash awards for winning business house dis plays will be the same as last year First award will be $35; se- cond, $20; and third, Sl0.
 Merchandise prizes will be given to the best residence and apart ment house outside decorations, he said. These will be announced later.
 Two groups of judges remain to be chosen, one for the business houses and one for the residences. Judging will take place on Decem- Der g.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
EIGHTH ARMY DIGS IN FOR NEW DEFENSE
Marine, Seventh Infantry Divisions, Trapped But
 Optimism Expressed
(By the Associated Press)

Allied Eighth Army forces dug in for stand against overwhelming Communist Chinese troops in West Korea today while world diplomats struggled to remove the danger of the Korean conflict igniting into a world war.
 President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee continued their talks in Washington faced with three possibilities:
 1. That the 1000 000-man Chinese Communist army might stop short of the 38th parallel as it was urged to do by l3 Asian and Middle East nations at Lake Success.
 2. That United Nations forces might be able to hold line thus giving more time to achieve a satis- factory political solution.
 3. That U. N. forces might be forced to pull out of Korea in an Oriental Dunkerque.
 Trapped Forces
 General MacArthur's headquar- ters reported decreasing pressure" against Marines and Doughboys cut off by masses of Chinese troops at Hagaru and Koto in Northeast Ko- req.
 Elements of the First Marine and Seventh Infantry-D Divisions are trap ped in the Changjin reservoir area Col Lewis (Chesty) Fuller. com mander of the First Marine Divi- sion, was quoted as saying:
 We will suffer heavy losses. The enemy greatly outnumbers us. They have blown the bridges, blocked the roads. Our vehicles may not get through, but we will make it some- how"
 In Great Peril
 The whole 10th Corps of five divisions is in great peril. It is over-extended and dispersed in the 7,000-foot mountains and sub-zero cold of northern Korea. It may soon be cut off from land com- munications with the south.
 One Chinese spearhead has al- ready cut the main highway be- tween the two major east coast ports of Hungnam and Wonsan. Hung nam is about 50 air miles south of Wonsan. 10th Corps headquarters.
 Fighting Chance
 The Eighth Army had a fighting chance in the west. The new de- fense line was not defined in de- tail by General MacArthur's head quarters. A spokesman said only that it ran from point south of Pyongyang to positions south and west.
 Gen. J. Lawton Collins, U. s. Army Chief of Staff on flying
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
SNOW BLANKETS NATION, CANADA
 TO LOUISIANA
(By the Associated Press)

Snow piled up today in a long strip from Canada into Dixie.
 It formed white belt across the nations midsection from Lake Su- perior to Louisiana and from Iowa to Ohio.
 A blizzard, with gusts up to 40 miles per hour whipped up "A inches of snow in Superior, Wis. The fall there late yesterday and today set a record for depth in a short period
 The neighbor city of Duluth, Minn,. had a foot of snow and it kept falling Winds churned up three foot drifts.
 Minenapolis had a seven inch snow coat and it was getting deeper.
 Flakes that began falling in Memphis, Tenn, before dawn were expected to pile up a five inch depth. Arkansas was blanketed under one to four inches.
 It was B below zero at Eckman, ND, IS below at Chadron, Neb.. Il below at Atlantic and Spencer, Ia., eight below at Tarkio, Mo-, two below at Woodward, Okla.
 A reading of six below set low record for Dec. at Denver. But Frazer, Colo, had 30 below.
 And Juneau had four inch fall of snow last night and blows have been out clearing the streets.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
No HaIiing
 Red China
 Says Russ
vishinsky D erides Plea Ma de 10 Half China
 Forces, 38th Parallel

LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. 6-tR- Russia's Andrei Vishinsky today de- rided direct appeal by 13 Asian and Middle. East countries to Pei ping to halt it's forces at the 38th parallel in Korea.
 He spoke before the LIN Assem- bly,, which soon afterward voted 51 to Soviet bloc) to place on it's emergency program a resolution designed to halt Communist Chi nese intervention.
 Vishinsky said Red China and it's people want peace. but that it must come after the withdrawal of LIN. forces from Korea.
 The Soviet Foreign Minister told the emergency session of the Assem- ply that the 13 Asian and Middle East countries which appealed last night for the halt at the parallel were the same powers that sup ported crossing the 38th parallel when JUN. troops were advancing.
 Appeal Is Made
 India, which sparked. the newest direct peace plea to Communist China. abstained from voting for the northward crossing of the parallel. The Philippines, Egypt, and nine other Asian and Middle East countries joined India in the new appeal last night.
 The Assembly went into its emer- gency session to discuss putting a six-nation plea for halting Chinese intervention in Korea at the top of it's program. This was advanced by the big three western powers and Norway, Ecuador and Cuba after a similar plea was vetoed in the Se- curity Council by Russia.
 Demands Quick Action
 Carlos P, Romulo. Philippines Foreign Minister and one of the signers of the 13-nation direct ap- peal, pleaded for quick Assembly action.
 The peace of the whole world may depend on what we do or fail to do here" he told the delegates.
 Warren R. Austin, Chief U. S. Delegate, confined his Assembly statement to plea for putting on the agenda lone of the greatest questions faced by he U.N."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK. Dec. 6 = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2h, American Can 94h, American Tel and Tel. 150%, Anaconda 36ss. Douglas Aircraft 87h. General Electric 467s. General Motors 46A, Goodyear 60, Kenne- colt 69%. Libby McNeill and Libby 89s. Northern Pacific 28A, Stan- dard Oil of California 79as, Twen- tieth Century Fox 1924. US. Steel 39ss, Pound $2.80h, Canadian Ex- change 9543A.
 Sales today were 100000 shares.
 Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 226.16. rails 7099, utilities 39.31.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
Hello, Hello, Please Get off the Line; Nuts To You; House Burns
(By Associated Press)

Here's new twist to party line troubles. Mrs. G. 0. Maddox of Bluefield. West Virginia. found her home afire and hurried to the tele- phone--on an eight-party line.
 Two long-winded takers were on and despite Mrs. Maddox's plead ings. they refused to give her the line. As result her farm home burned down. Incidentally. one of the few things saved was the tele- phone.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
NOME HAS BLAZE;
 THREE BUSINESS
 HOUSES DESTROYED

NOME. Alaska, Dec. 66R-A midnight fire destroyed Nomes only bakery and several other downtown business buildings.
 Only a lack of wind was believed to have saved other structures on the south side of Front Street. The fire, of unknown origin. was battled in ten degrees below zero tempera- ture.
 The flames destroyed the North Pole Bakery, Northern Grill and Scotty's Bar and Liquor Store.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
TWO MEN REPORTED MAR00MED, RUGGED
 ISLE, NEAR SEWARD

The U. s. Coast Guard cutter Sedge is proceeding from Kodiak to Seward to answer a distress call CG headquarters said today.
 Anna B. Southard, U. s. Con- missioner at Seward, reported that two Seward men, whose names were not given. were believed to be marooned on Rugged Island at the mouth of Resurrection Bay. It is thought that their boat is lost, she said. High winds and heavy seas have prevented local aircraft from searching. As soon as weather permits. a Coast Guard PBY plane will leave Kodiak to aid in the search.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
STATEHOOD BILL AGAIN
 DISCUSSED
Bartlett Prepares for Ae- lion Next Congress But
 0'Mahoney Has Views
(By Charles ID. Watkins)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6-tR-With Alaska Statehood apparently dead for this year. Delegate Bartlett began laying plans today to seek early passage of a statehood bill in the 82nd Congress. But Senator O'Mahoney D-Wyo) chairman of the Senate Interior committee and sponsor of pending statehood legislation, refused to concede defeat.
 OMahoney said he had not given up hope and will try again to bring up the statehood bill if the Senate will dispose of its pending busi- ness-rent control extension and a railroad labor bill.
 'The railroad labor act was one of the excuses used for delay in acting upon the statehood bill," OMahoney told a reporter.
 If it is gotten out of the way we can try again to bring up the statehood bill.
 RR Bill Is Question
 If no action is taken on the railroad bill it will show the nature of the opposition. contemplate no trouble on the railroad labor act if the proposed amendment by Senator Jenner (R-Ind) is not offered"
 Jenner has said he will offer an amendment to add a fair employ ment practices provision to the railroad bill.
 Bartlett said he would like to see the Alaska bill brought up in the Senate within two weeks after the new Congress convenes January 3.
 "It would be unnecessary for the Senate Interior Committee to hold additional hearings on the bill" !" Bartlett said in an interview.
 Action Next Congress
 Tt could report the bill favor ably to the Senate quickly and I believe the Senate could act quick ly.
 T do not believe any filibuster would be of such proportion that it could not be beaten by supporters of the bill.
 T would like to see the action taken first by the Senate"
 He added that if House rules are changed so as to again give the rules Committee exclusive authority to schedule major bills for House consideration i've might run into the same situation as we did in 1949 when the rules committee re- fused to report the measure to the House."
 Committee Bloc
 Bartlett recalled that the bill reached the House last spring un- der chan4r in the rules by which committee Chairman had the power to call up legislation approv- ed by his group if the Rules com- mittee failed to act for 2l days after he had asked clearance Of measure.
 Some Democrats have advocated restoring the full power of the Rules committee to clear bills.
 T think that if the Senate pass es the bill next session we will have better opportunity to get it be- fore the house than if we start our measure on the House side,' Bartlett said.
 Viewing the scene objectively, am still inclined to the opinion there is good chance of Alaska get ting statehood in 1851. We should know by next March l."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
NATL. GUARD TAKES
 POSSESSION OF NEW
 ARMORY IN ANCHORAGE

The recently completed Anchor age National Guard Armory will be used for the first time Thursday evening when Headquarters Co.,, 2O7th Infantry Battalion holds a regular drill in it, according to word received at the Territorial National Guard headquarters here. This is the first opportunity the 2O7th Infantry Battalion has had to hold a drill in quarters of its own.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
GAGE GAME THURSDAY
 EVENING IN DOUGLAS

The Douglas High Huskies meet the Arctics for the first time to- morrow night at in the Douglas gymnasium.
 Friday night. the Imperial ImpS play the Columbia Lumbermen in the first of a double-header in the Juneau High gymnasium at 7:30. Sec ond game is between the Juneau High Crimson Bears and Mikes Mite Owls.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
Gold Fish Killed
 By DDT; City Pays

COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 6-R-The city has paid Hobart Trabert $107.0 .03 for TIP goldfish.
 The fish are dead. But that's why the city paid.
 Trabert, who has an open acquar- ium in his backyard, asked the city not to spray his alley with DOT. The city did, and the fish died.
 Health Commissioner Ollie M. Goodloe said the DOT killed them
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Princess Louise scheduled to ar rive from Skagway Friday and def mite time will be announced to- morrow.
 Baranof from west, scheduled tc arrive Sunday southbound.
 Denali scheduled to sail from Se- attle Friday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
STORIs ICEBREAKING

The Coast Guard cutter Storis is continuing attempts to break G. inch ice in Hood Bay today, for the vessel Forester to get in to the dock. Shoal waters are hindering progress, co headquarters said to. day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
BPR ENGINEER IS
 ASSIGNED TO SEWARD

A. K. Medley. construction en- gineer with the Bureau of Public Roads, has been assigned to the Seward office where he will be assistant to B. M. French, engineer in charge. He left Juneau on the Baranof. accompanied by Mrs Medley and their daughter. Judith
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
WEATHER REPORT

Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
 ending e:2o o'clock this morning
 In Juneau-Maximum, 34;
 minimum, 9.
 At Airport-Maximum, 30;
 minimum, 20. F O R E 0 A S IT Juneau and Vicinity } Light rain and snow tonight
 and tomorrow. Low tempera-
 ture tonight near 32 and high
 tomorrow about 36 degrees. F R E IPITATION 'Fast 2A hours ending 7:3o am. today City of Juneau-0.68 inches; since Dec. - O.76 inches; since July 1-34 inches. At Airport - orr inches; since Dec. 1 = 0.97 inches; since July 1-24.09 inches. c . .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
CoNNoRs CONDITION FAIR

J. J. Connors, U. s. Collector of Customs, who is at St. Anns Hos- pital, is reported to be in fair condition and enjoys brief visits from his old friends.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-06
FROM RUPERT

Samuel Lincoln. of Prince Ru- pert, B. C., is in Juneau for the week. He is stopping at the Hotel Juneau.