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President Truman
Is Sure Senate
Hearings Will
Prove Him Right
< WASHINGTON, <£>) — Harry
Truman—tight-lipped, watchfully
waiting—says he’s sure the Sen
ate hearings will prove he was
right and Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur was wrong.
And he came pretty close yes
terday to saying MacArthur told
Senate investigators something
that wasn’t true.
The President’s weekly news
conference ran a poo*r second, in
the headline count, to MacAr
thur’s hard - punching testimony,
given at the same time, at the
other end of town.
MacArthur said, among many
other things, that the Central In
telligence Agency thought there
was “very little chance” last No
vember of the Chinese Commun
ists’ entering the Korean war. «It
y was in November that they did
enter the war.)
Asked about this, Mr. Truman
said (1) the CIA didn’t make any
such report to him, and (2) Mac
Arthur didn’t even allow the CIA
to operate in his command until
recently.
The CIA is the nation’s top
level intelligence agency. Mr. Tru
man said its director, Gen. Walter
Bedel Smith, made a special trip
to Tokyo and persuaded Mac
Arthur to make use of it.
. The President said MacArthur
convinced him at their Wake Is
land conference in October that
the Chinese Reds were not going
to strike. When they did strike,
he said, he was more sorry than
surprised. But MacArthur, he said,
was very much surprised.
Getting away from the MacAr
thur controversy briefly, Mr. Tru
man said William O’Dwyer, am
bassador to Mexico, still has his
full confidence.
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Impose Curfew On
Military Personnel
Of Elmendorf AFB
ANCHORAGE, UP) — A curfew
designed to “protect the health and
welfare of servicemen” goes into
effect tonight for military per-!
* sonnel in the Anchorage and Pal- i
mer areas.
An order announced by Maj.
Maurice Murdock, Provost Mar
shal at nearby Elmendorf Air
Force Base, places all bars, clubs,
dance halls, and night clubs off
limits to military personnel be
tween 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. week
nights and 2 ajn. and 8 a.m. Sun
days and on holidays observed by
' the military.
Murdock said he felt it was
necessary to place these estab
lishments out of bounds for the j
protection of the health and wel-!
fare of servicemen. . I
MacArthur Makes
Best Seller List
NEW YOBK, (/P)—Gen. Douglas
MacArthur (has cracked the best
seller list with the by-prducts of
his “old soldiers” speech to Con
! gress April 19.
All told, recordings of the dra
matic address are expected to
reach a total sale of 2,000,000
copies.
Equally “phenomenal” sales
are reported for the hastily pro- j
duced records of the “Old Soldiers !
Never Die” ballad, which the gen
eral revived into an over-night
hit in his speech.
The address is out in book
; form, too. Rand McNally printed
1250,000 copies at 50 cents each,
j The publishers report, “all the
distributors have gobbled them
up; they’re selling very fast.”
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4,000 Cannery
Workers To Be
Flown to Alaska
SEATTLE, VP) — An air lift
which will fly more than 4,000
fishermen, machinists, cannery
men and allied workers to Alaska
in the next month, has started
without fanfare from Seattle’s
Boeing Field.
Four airlines — Pan American,
! Pacific Northern, Northwest and
I Northern Consolidated — are tak
1 ing part in the lift this season.
Main terminals are Kodiak, False
Pass and Bristol Bay.
Most of the men will go to Bris
| tol Bay, where nine canneries will
j start operations June 25. Big
i planes will carry many of the
i men to the airfield at Naknek
| and “bush” pilots will fly them
on to the scattered canneries
around the mouths of the Naknek
and Kvichak rivers.
The air lift program will equal
the 1950 program, but the indus
try expects to use more workers,
hiring additional cannery help
from the Kuskokwim and Yukon
areas in Alaska.
Draft Call Cut To
20.000 Men In June
WASHINGTON, (/P> — The
Army today issued a draft call
for 20,000 men in June.
This is the smallest number in
any monthly call since the draft
was resumed last September.
Since that time, a total of 550,000
men have been drafted or placed
on call for army duty.
The army got 80,000 men in
each of the first three months of
this year. Thereafter, the April
draft was halved to 40,000 and
the May quota was reduced from
60.000 to 40,000.
The army said the cutbacks
were made .because of the greater
number of men volunteering f£r
service and the lower-than-ex
pected casualties in Korea.
House Votesi $20
Millions for Alaska
Road Cbnstructibn
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
House voted without opposition
$7,000,000 for Alaska public
works, $20,000,000 for construc
tion of roads in Alaska, and
$2,600,000 for operation and main
tenance of Alaska roads. They
were included in the Interior De
partment bill.
Backing pleas for economy, the
House voted $496,764,500 for the
Department in the year starting
July 1, a reduction of $62,521,500
from the amount asked by Presi
dent Truman.
In spite of statements by ad
ministration supporters that all
power should be developed to
aid production during the present
emergency, the House lopped off
$9,450,000 earmarked for construc
tion of power and transmission
lines.
After approving the money
items, the House on a vote of .224
to 169 adopted an amendment to
cut the department’s personnel
during the fiscal year starting
July 1. Under this, no more than
25 per cent of the job vacancies
can be filled except by transfers
within the department.
The exceptions to this would be
various persons under the Indian
Bureau, such as school teachers,
medical personnel and law en
forcement officials.
No attempt was made to cut
the $65,000,000 recommended for
the Indian Bureau.
5 Per Cent Cut In Steel ^
For Passenger Autos
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The gov
ernment today ordered another
five per cent cut in the use of
steel for passenger autos and sta
tion wagons. That reduces per
mitted consumption to 75 per
cent of the level in the first half
of 1950.
The cutback is effective June 1.
On July 1, the National Produc
tion Authority announced, a fur
ther expected cut will reduce
useage to 70 per cent for passen
ger cars, station wagons and light
trucks.
At A Glance ...
FIGHTING FRONT —Lt. Gen.
Ridgway says Chinese Reds will
continue to pay a bloody price in
the Korean war. He declared his
troops have complete confidence
in their ability to handle any
enemy thrust. U. N. tanks and
planes raid Chinese forward lines
where the enemy is regrouping
and rearming for a new offensive.
Intelligence officers report main
Red groupings are north of Seoul
and in the Chunchon-Hwachon
area. Tanks and infantry attacks
account for another 1,740 enemy
casualties.
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26 Radar Installations i
For CAA Fields in tJ. S.,
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Alaska and Hawaii
WASHINGTON, <£)—1The gov
ernment plans to place modern
airport surveillance radar instal
lations at 26 points in the United
States, Alaska and Hawaii during
the year starting July 1.
These v devices, which scan the
skies and detect planes within a
30-mile radius, will be civilian
installations, but will be closely
tied in with the national defense
set-up.
The machines would be in
stalled and operated by the Civil
Aeronautics Administration.
Installations outside the U. S.
would be located at Annette Is- i
land and Fairbanks, Alaska, and
Honolulu.
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Striking Atomic
Plant Workers
Return to Work
OAK RIDGE, Term., {JP) —
Striking construction workers
streamed back to their jobs today
on a huge atomic plant project,
apparently ending a four - day
walkout.
An hour after the day shift was
due to report, a spokesman for
the contractor said:
“It looks like it is over. We
have less than 500 men absent and
the rest still coming o*n. Our nor
mal absenteeism is about 150.”
The strikers apparently decided
| to heed urgent pleas of their
union leaders and job stewards
| that they return to work immedi
I ately.
Some 1,500 of 3,200 workers on
the project walked off the $227
millions job Tuesday in protest
against refusal of Maxon Con
struction Company, the contrac
tor, to pay a negotiated wage in
crease.
American MP
Shot To Death
By Russians
VIENNA, Austria, (^P)—An Am
erican military policeman was
shot to death by two Russian
soldiers early today and U. S.
authorities immediately demanded
that the Soviet officals join in an
investigation.
An autopsy showed the Ameri
can, Cpl. Paul Gresens, 28, of
Rochester, N. Y., was struck in
the stomach by nine bullets from
a Russian machine pistol. Cpl.
Jack Morgan of Keokuk, la., who
was with Gresens on patrol, said
the Russians stood between 10
and 20 feet away from Gresens
when they cut loose with about
20 shots after being challenged in
central Vienna, outside a night
club. The Russians fled to the
Soviet sector after the shooting.
American military police are in
control of the sector where the
shooting occurred, during the
month of May.
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Gen. MacArthur
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Asserts Chiefs of
Staff Approved
Korea Strategy
WASHINGTON, {IP) — Gen.
Douglas MacArthur said today the
Joint Chiefs of Staff approved
when he split his United Nations
forces last fall in a drive for the
Kcrrean-Manchurian border.
MacArthur made that statement
while under questioning from
Senator McMahon, a vigorous sup
porter of the Truman administra
tion position in the Far Eastern
policy row that led to the gen
eral’s dismissal from his com
mands.
There has been some criticism
of MacArthur because he split the
Eighth Army and the Tenth Corps
sending them off on different
slants toward the Yalu River.
When the Chinese Communists
poured into Korea in force, the
Eighth Army and the 10th Corps
were not in position to join forces
for support of each other.
MacArthur told McMahon:
, “The movements, all tactical
and strategic movements that I
made, had the prior knowledge
and approval of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff.
; McMahon said MacArthur yes
terday had described the drive
, by his forces in November as “a
reconnaissance in force.” Then he
1 said:
“As I recollect it, General, last
November you issued a communi
que in which you said that this
was the end-of-the-war offensive
which would .bring the boys home
by Christmas.”
“That was my hope,” MacAr
thur replied.
Soon after MacArthur settled in
the witness chair for his second
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Five Million Offered For
MacArthur’s Memoirs
NEW YORK, (ff) — General 'v.
Douglas MacArthur, whose salary
and allowances come to $18,761 a
year, has been offered $5,000,000
for his memoirs.
The offer was disclosed by Maj.
Gen. Courtney Whitney, MacAr
thur’s personal aide.
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Whitney, however, declined ter
say who made the offer. Neither
did he say how the depose# Fat
Eastern commander reacted to the
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Alaska Airlines Planes
Set Roundtrip Records
In the Pacific Airlift
SEATTLE, (/P) — More round
trips per aircraft than any other
carrier on the Pacific airlift is
the record made by Alaska Air
lines, reports R. W. Marshall,
chairman of the board. The com
pany has just reported gross rev
enue erf $1,378,458 for the first
quarter of 1951, or more than two
and a half times the volume for
the same period last year.
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HELP C.A.P. CADETS EARN THEIR UNIFORMS
N. C. STORE SATURDAY, MAY 5
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