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Mark Clark Confers With
Negotiators In Preparation
For Showdown Meeting
MUNSAN, UP>—Gen. Mark Clark
huddled for three hours with U.N.
truce negotiators today in ad
vance of a showdown meeting to
morrow afternoon at which the
Communist high command is ex
pected to answer an Allied de
mand for a quick Korean armis
tice.
Theer was no hint of what was
discussed during the secret elev
enth-hour conference, but sources
said there was no' question but
what the U.N. commander and his
negotiating team mapped strategy
for the crucial session at Panmun
jom tomorrow.
The top level delegations are
to meet at 2 p.m. (midnight today
EST.)
16 Semi-Finalists Chosen
In Miss Universe Contest
LONG BEACH, Calif., UP —
Which of 16 near-perfect contest
ants is the most beautiful girl in
the world?
The answer—sure to give judges
of the Miss Universe contest some
uneasy moments—will be known
tonight.
There were at least 16 impres
sive performers in the field of 26
competing in last night’s prelim
inaries, judging from the applause
of 2,500 spectators in Long Beach
Municipal Auditorium.
The judges somehow accom
plished the job of narrowing the
group to 16 semifinalists, but their
identity will not be announced
until tonight. From there, the
field will be cut to’ five finalists,
from whom will come Miss Uni
verse.
Good challenges were made by
Belgium, the Philippines, Alaska,
Puerto Rico, Sweden, Venezuela,
Peru, Denmark and Switzerland.
Jet Ace Jabara Must Leave
Korea One Short Record
Of 16 Red MIGs Downed
SEOUL, UPi—America’s first jet
ace, Maj. James Jabara, flew his
last two Korean missions today in
an all-out but unsuccessful at
tempt to shoot down his 16th Red
MIG and tie the Korean war rec
ord.
The cigar-chewing Jabara lost
his chance to tie the record set
by Capt. Joseph McConnell, when
the few MIGs he spotted on his
first mission of the day disap
peared into the clouds over North
Korea.
On his second mission of the
day—the 100th of his second tour
in Korea and his 163rd of the war
—the Wichita, Kansas, Sabre jet
pilot didn’t even sight a Com
munist plane.
10.000- ACRE ILIAMNA FOREST
FIRE RAGES UNCONTROLLED
ANCHORAGE, (ffl—Firefighters
have given up efforts to control a
10.000- acre forest fire in the Lake
Iliamna area, Roger Robinson of
the Bureau of Land Management
reported Thursday.
High winds made it expedient
to evacuate the men, Robinson
said.
There are no homes in the area
and the costs and risks were too
great to warrant continued work,
he added.
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Cost-of-Living
Allowance Ruled'
Tax-Exempt
WASHINGTON, (£> — The Bu
reau of Internal Revenue has de
cided that the 25 per cent cost-of
living allowance paid federal
workers in the Hawaiian Islands,
Alaska and Puerto Rico is not sub
ject to federal income tax, a pri
vate attorney said last night.
Robert M. Weston, who has
been counsel for a group of work
ers protesting the application of
the income tax to the pay differ
ential, announced the Bureau’s
action.
Weston said formal notice from
the Bureau to its various offices
should go out within the next two
weeks.
A group of civil service work
ers, headed by C. H. Dyer, budget
officer for the Civil Aeronautics
Administration at Honolulu, has
been battling against the tax for
the past two years.
A.t least 43,000 government
workers will be affected by the
Bureau ruling, Weston said. He
estimated that for a worker mak
ing $6,000 a year, the ruling
would mean a saving of $500 an
nually.
“The chief counsel of the Bur
eau of Internal Revenue,” West
on said, “has > conceded that the
25 per cent cost-of-living differ
ential is not taxable under the
internal revenue code.”
Weston said the ruling is retro
active to Jan. 1, 1949. Persons
who' have paid the income tax on
their pay differential, he said,
will have to file claims with col
lectors of internal revenue in or
der to obtain refunds.
Workers at Anchorage
Swamp Bureau Office
With Refund Applications
ANCHORAGE, UR — Federal
workers anticipating refunds on
income taxes paid on the 25 per
cent Alaska cost-of-living allow
ance have swamped the Bureau
of Internal Revenue office here
with their applications, agent A.
Verle Collar announced Thurs
day.
Henry Newman, of the Civil
Aeronautics Administration, states
that six per cent interest will
be paid on taxes ruled unlawfully
held the past few years.
A 1950 census reported that
10,773 Alaskans worked for the
federal government.
The refunds should approxi
mate between $200 and $300 a
year per worker, Newman esti
mated.
Supervisor of Vocational
Education For Alaska
JUNEAU, Robert P. Isaac
has been named supervisor of vo
cational education for the Alaska
schools by the Territorial Com
misioner of Education.
He has been an education super
visor in the department for the
past year. Previously he had been
basketball coach at Douglas high
school and coach and athletic dir
ector at the University of Alaska.
Senator Taft Withdraws
From Participation In
Present Congress Session
NEW YORK, IM — Sen. Robert
A. Taft withdrew today from fur
ther participation in the current
session of Congress because of a
hip ailment.
The Ohio Republican relin
quished active floor leadership of
GOP senators to Sen. Knowland
of California last June 10, al
though he kept the title of ma
jority leader.
Today, New York Hospital,
where Taft is convalescing after
the latest of a series of treat
ments for the hip, issued a bul
let which said in part:
“Sen. Taft does not intend to
return to his duties at this ses
sion of Congress, which apparent
ly will end in August.”
Known to many as “Mr. Repub
lican,” the 63-year-old son of the
late president and U.S. Supreme
Court chief justice is serving his
third term in the Senate. He first
was elected in 1938 and was re
elected in 1950 for a 6-year term.
A leader of the opposition thru
the New Deal and Fair Deal ad
ministrations, Taft has been a
contender for the Republican
presidential nomination a number
of times.
Drink Crazed Suitor Kills
Showgirl and Himself
NEW YORK, UP — A heavy
hearted father arrived here Fri
day to claim the body of his dau
ghter, showgirl Florence Fors
berg, slain apparently by a drink
crazed suitor.
Bert Forsebrg flew here from
Ft. Francis, Ont., where he is a
partner in a clothing firm. Strug
gling to control himself, he told
newsmen:
“Coming on top of my wife’s
death, about two years ago, the
shock is just a little too much.”
The nude body of the '25-year
old blonde singer, stabbed and
beaten, was found Thursday mor
ning slumped between the twin
beds of her Manhattan apartment.
The discovery came after police
investigated a gunshot heard in
the room of candy salesman Les
ter Johnson, 25, 40 block fur
ther uptown.
The found Johnsen shot thru
the chest with a hunting rifle. A
note said:
“I killed Flo Forsberg because
of passion and drink. We were in
a passion, both drunk. I killed
her and I’m sorry. Life is not
worth living.”
At the Winter Garden theater
where Miss Forsberg appeared as
a chorus singer in “Wonderful
Town,” cast members described
has as “a sweet kid, not at all the
usual Broadway type.”
SPARTANBURG, S. C., UP—A
truckload of Spartanburg County
peaches is on the way to Alaska.
C. H. Johnson of Anchorage,
bought 155 three-quarter bushel
baskets of Burnett Elbertas for
the 6,000-mile haul, longest in
the history of the South Carolina
commercial peach industry.
Johnson usually flies to his
produce source, buys a truck and
loads it, and sells the whole works
when he gets back home.
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8th Army Mounts
Biggest Offensive
In Over Two Years
SEOUL, UR — Fiercely counter
attacking Allied infantrymen —
perhaps including Americans —
whittled down Red gains of up to
seven miles on the flaming cen
tral front today in what Gen.
Maxwell D. Taylor called “the
first resumption of open warfare
in two years.”
Later reports cleared by cen
sors said South Korean soldiers
hit an overran about 1,500 Chi
nese Reds in the Kumsong River
Valley.
Taylor, U.S. 8th Army com
mander, disclosed that the Chinese
Reds’ massive 10-division offen
sive this week—mightiest in two
years—flattened the Allies’ Kum
song bulge. This meant a U.N.
withdrawal of up to seven miles
and total Red gains of up to 60
square miles.
The 9th American Corps and
2nd Korean Corps were identified
as manning the Kumsong River
line—the first disclosure that U.S.
infantrymen were in the area hit
by the giant Red push.
Taylor said the front was stab
ilized “generally along an east
west line at the base of the for
mer salient” — where the Allies
held a seven - mile northward
bulge as a result of gains 20
months ago.
Dispatches cleared by censors
meanwhile told of successful
South Korean counterattacks at
both sides of the front, backed by
swarms of American and Allied
warplanes and thunderous artil
lery.
Associated Press correspondent
Forrest Edwards called the Kum
song counterattack the biggest
Allied advance since late autumn,
1951. /
Taylor said U.N. units recover
ed rapidly from blows of the
Chinese offensive, which he esti
mated at a strength of 10 divi
sions—80,000 to 100,000 troops.
“Commanders have regroupe’d
their units and have pressed back
to contact with the enemy, in the
first resumption of open warfare
in nearly two years,” he said.
Juneau Mental Health
Assn. Petitions President
For Passage of Legislation
JUNEAU, UP)—Thirty-five mem
bers of the Juneau Mental Health
Association have wired a petition
to President Eisenhower for
prompt hospital care, instead of
jail, for Alaska’s insane and men
tally ill.
The Alaska Mental Health bill,
they fear, is doomed to death in
a congressional committee pigeon
hole. Dr. C. E. Albrecht, Alaska
Commissioner of Health, made a
trip to Washington several weeks
ago- in behalf of the bill.
The- measure will substitute hos
pital treatment and doctors’ care
for the present federal system of
jail detention and police custody
for Alaskan when they first be
come *metal patients — even on
application by themselfes or their
families.
Russian Tanks Return To
East Berlin In Wake of
Anti-Communist Strikes
BERLIN, UP) — A Russian tank
division rumbled back into East
Berlin today as a dangerous new
wave of anti - Communist strikes
marked the first monthly anni
versary of the June 17 workers
rebellion in East Germany.
The columns of Soviet tanks,
troops and armored cars stamped
and rumbled ostentatiously before
dawn through Stalin Allee, a riot
focus a month ago. The Russians
poured into East Berlin from the
southeast, the east and the north.
Soviet martial law, proclaimed
at the June 17 outbreak, was
lifted only last Saturday night.
The last of the 25,000 Russian
armored troops who put down the
rebellion'’withdrew at that time.
Sabre Jet Sets New Record
Flying One Mile In Time
You Can Count to Five
THERMAL, Calif., UP) — A F-86
Sabre jet and its veteran Air
Force pilot have blazed to a new
world’s air speed record of 715.7
miles an hour. That’s traveling
one mile as you count to' five.
Lt. Col. William F. Barns, 32,
sometimes reaching speeds of
more than 12 miles a minute in
the nine-ton jet interceptor, eclip
sed yesterday the record of 698.5
established only last November
over the same three - kilmeter
(1.863 -mile) course by Capt. J.
Slade Nash.
Bams flashed through two com
plete contest runs, each consist
ing of two trips in both direc
tions along the straightaway
course. Each of the eight trips was
faster than Nash’s record and the
best was 721.364 when the wind
was in the colonel’s favor.
Barns broke the record with an
average of 713.6 on the first run.
He changed planes and came back
to re-establish the record a couple
of miles per hour higher.
Juneau’s Golden North
Salmon Derby Starts
JUNEAU, Iff)—A cannon, blast
at 7 a.m. today signaled the start
of the Golden North Salmon
Derby, which has become one of
this Alaska capital’s biggest an
nual events.
Saturday is a holiday in the
city. All stores will be closed and
the city’s daily newspaper will not
publish.
Prizes for the derby are valued
at about $10,000. They include an
automobile, a deep freeze, a boat,
round trips to Seattle, Hawaii and
Hollywood.
THURSDAY SCORES
National League
Brooklyn 9, St. Louis 2
Pittsburgh 5, Milwaukee 2
Philadelphia 3-3, Cincinnati 1-2
New York 10, Chicago 3
American League
Chicago 6-5, Washington 5-4
St. Louis 8-3, New York 6-7
Cleveland 5, Philadelphia 3
Boston 3, Detroit 2
Coast League
San Diego 4, Los Angeles 3
Seattle 8, San Francisco 4
Sacramento 4, Oakland 3
Hollywood 4-7, Portland 3-8