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Fear Use Japanese
Would Bring Russ
Into Korean War
WASHINGTON, </P) — Secre
tary Marshall said today no Jap
anese are serving with United Na
tions troops in Korea largely be
cause a Chinese-Russian defense
pact is aimed at Japan.
He implied the fear was that
using Japanese against the Chi
nese Communists might bring the
Russians into the Korean war.
The Defense Secretary was in
the witness chair for the third day
before the Senate Armed Services
and Foreign Relations committees.
They are inquiring into the ouster
of Gen. MacArthur as Far East
ern commander and the policy
differences back of his removal.
Noting that the Sino-Russian
pact is directed at any resumption
of Japanese aggression, Marshall
testified:
“The fact that the pact directly
referred to the Japanese—possible
intervention on the mainland of
Asia—I know controlled the action
of this government in not using
any Japanese whatsoever in Ko
rea. Beyond that I will have to
pass it up to the State Depart
ment.”
Secretary eft State uean *\cne
son is to be a witness later and
Marshall meant the Senators
should ask Acheson about that.
Senator Wiley asked Marshall
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if, during his mission to China in
1945-46, he ever consulted Gen
eral MacArthur about ‘the forma
tion of what was to be or what
resulted in our China policy.”
Marshall told Wiley there was
‘‘no formal consultation” but that
he saw MacArthur in March, 1946,
and would assume that he made
some comment to the Far Eastern
commander about the China situa
tion.
Wiley said that what he got
from Marshall's answer was that
“to your knowledge, this man, who
SENATE COMMITTEE
SAYS STATEHOOD FOR
ALASKA IS ADVISABLE
WASHINGTON, (IP)—The Sen
ate Insular Affairs Committee
says statehood for Alaska is ad
visable from the standpoint of na
tional defense, foreign relations,
and economic development.
Favorable reports on statehood
bills for both Alaska and Hawaii
were filed yesterday by the com
mittee chairman, Senator O’Ma
honey. The reports were author
ized by the committee a month
ago.
The House passed statehood
bills for the two territories last
year, but the measures died in
the Senate. This year statehood
advocates are seeking Senate ac
tion first.
TRUMAN RAISES
RIDGWAY TO RANK
OF FULL GENERAL
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman today raised Lt. Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway, Gen. Mac
Arthur’s successor in the Far East,
to the rank of full general.
The President sent to the Sen
ate, for its confirmation, the pro
motion which will give Ridgway
a fourth star. MacArthur is a five
star General of the Army.
Ridgway has been serving as
Commander-in-Chief in the Far
East and Commander of United
Nations forces in Korea, as well
as head of Occupation Forces in
Japan.
has had that vast experience in
the Philippines, who had fought
his way up, and lived off and on
25 years out there, was not con
sulted by those in government
who were planning the policy in
the East. Am I right?”
“Marshall said: “I couldn’t an
swer that specifically, Senator,
because I think there were con
sultations with individuals sent
out by the State Department, but
they can answer that directly.”
The people of Nome
and the personnel
of Marks Air Force Base
are invited to a tea
at the Pioneer Igloo
Sunday afternoon, May 13
3:00 p.m. to 5 p.m.
honoring
ALASKA’S MOTHER OF 1951
MRS. MICHAEL J. WALSH
Hostesses: Home Arts Club '
Pioneer Women of Alaska
Beta Sigma Phi
In honoring Alaska’s Mother we pay trib
ute to our own mothers. Both men and
women are cordially invited to attend.
Truman Declares
Our Worst Enemy
Is Relaxation
WASHINGTON, (AV-tPresident
Truman declared today the coun
try’s worst enemy is neither for
eign aggression nor inflation at
home—“it is relaxation.”
Addressing 6 0 0 businessmen
members of the Interior Depart
ment’s Defense Advisory Council,
Mr. Truman said Price and Wage
controls will be needed “for the
next two or three years at least.”
Then, departing from his pre
pared text in an urgent appeal to
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industry against any letup in the
defense effort, the President went
on:
“We have three enemies to over
come, one of them abroad and
two of them at home.
“Aggression is the first enemy.
We’re shooting at it now in Korea.
“Inflation is the second—it is a
home product.
“But number three is tfle worst
of all. It is relaxation.
“You men can cure the tendency
to relax every time there is a
lull in hostilities.”
Asserting that peace in Korea
“would not put an end to the
global danger of- Soviet aggres
sion,” Mr. Truman said the U. S.
must:
1. Build up enough- military
strength “to convince the Krem
lin that it ought ncrt to start a
world war.”
2. Prepare to mobilize quickly
for war “in case the Kremlin is
reckless enough, in spite of every
thing, to plunge the world into a
general conflict ”
Death Toll From
Quake Mounts
To 1,200 Persons
, SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador,
(>P)—The death toll from El Sal
vador’s week-end earthquake rose
to 1,200 persons today as new re
ports filtered slowly into the cap
ital from isolated regions in the
disaster zone. The injured were
reckoned at 4,000 or more.
With many villages in the quake
area still cut off, casualty figures
were incomplete. The government
earlier had estimated that “over
1,000” persons died in the up
heaval in the eastern part of the
country.
President Oscar Osorio last
night ordered martial law in the
devastated region. Aid was being
rushed to the injured and home
less.
The army continued a hurried
evacuation of survivors from the
region—a 60-square mile zone in
the country’s rich coffee planta
tion belt close to the Pacific coast.
Newspapers reported a move to
make a vast funeral pyre of the
quake area, to prevent the spread
of disease.
NOME MOTORS AWARDED
CONTRACT FOR POLICE CAR
A special meeting of the Nome
City Council was held last Mon
day evening at which time bids
were opened for the purchase of
a police and utility car. The order
was awarded to Nome Motor Co.,
who will have a Chevrolet panel
car on the first boat, for the city.
GIRL SCOUT COURT
OF AWARDS SET FOR
SATURDAY EVENING
Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m.
the Girl Scouts of Nome will hold
their Court of Awards ceremony
in the High School auditorium.
The parents, friends, scout com
mittee, sponsors, Boy Scouts and
the general public are invited to
attend this ceremony.
At this time the girls will also
celebrate their sixth anniversary
as a scout troop.
The program will open with the
march of the Girl Scouts followed
by Girl Scout song, “Girl Scouts
Together.”
There will be an address of wel
come by the chairman of the
Scout committee who has worked
conscientiously with scouting since
it was started in the community,
Mrs. Luther Dunbar.
There will be presentations of
membership cards, badges and
awards followed by a play which
is being prepared by the inter
mediate scouts.
The Senior Scouts wil sing a
group of songs after which .there
will be a special film on what
I Girl Scouting means to Girl
Scouts, and has a cast of more
than 128 girls and Bov Scouts.
Pulitzer Prize
i
Awarded Author
Of “The Town” |
NEW YORK, (jP)—Conrad Rich
ter has been awarded the annual
Pulitzer prize for fiction for his
novel, “The Town,” a story of a
19th century American family in
the wilderness.
In the newspaper field, the
Miami, Fla., Herald and the
Brooklyn Eagle won awards for
meritorious public service. Both
were cited for crime reporting
during 1950.
No award was made for drama
in the theater.
Two Associated Press corres
pondents, Reiman Morin and Don
Whitehead, received prizes for in
ternational reporting. They were
cited for work covering the war
in Korea.
Marguerite Higgins, 30-year-old
New York Herald Tribune re
porter, also was honored for Kor
ean war coverage — the first
woman to get a Pulitzer award for
stories on actual combat.
Another Herald Tribune writer,
Homer Bigart, also was honored
for stories on the Korean war. It
was Bigart’s second Pulitzer prize.
His first came in 1946 for World
War II reporting in .the Pacific.
Bouquet of Roses For
President Truman
On 67th Birthday
WASHINGTON, (JP)— President
Truman got a bouquet of roses
as a birthday present Tuesday.
He was 67.
He also received a scroll con
taining a Mother’s Day prayer for
the President, his cabinet, and
Congress.
Both were presented by Miss
Mary Hohm of Syracuse, N. Y.
She offered the scroll on behalf
of ‘Our Sunday Visitor,” a Catho
lic weekly founded by Bishop
John F. Noll of Fort Wayne, Ind.
312 U.N. Planes
Stage Greatest
Raid of War
(By the Associated Press)
More than 300 Allied planes
smashed a Reu air IJeld on the
Korea-Manchuria border today to
prevent an expected Communist
aerial offensive.
It was the biggest raid of the
war. But first official reports
didn’t look like much. The Fifth
Air Force said two Red planes
were damaged in the air, two
were destroyed and one was dam
aged on the ground.
Precisely what happened in the
thundering raid was screened by
flames and smoke. Returning
pilots said 10 square miles were
blanketed by smoke and flames.
The target was Sinuiju air field
where 70 to 100 Red planes had
been spotted on the ground.
The attack was made by 312
jets and fighter-bombers. They
came from every United Nations
air field in Korea. For half an
hour, early Wednesday afternoon,
they blasted and burned the air
field in northwestern Korea.
The Chinese were reported gath
ering their Russia-made planes
for a big surprise air strike.
American and South African
pilots approached in two waves.
The first wave swept through
heavy flak, rocketing, bombing,
and strafing anti-aircraft guns.
The second wave dropped high
explosives and jellied gasoline fire
bombs. An Allied officer said: “I
don’t think the Reds will fly any
more planes off that strip.”
The raid took place almost un
der shadow of massed Russian
type jet fighters across the Yalu
river. Fifty of the 80 Soviet-type
jets, parked at Antung airstrip
rose into the air but only 13
crossed the Yalu to give fight. One
enemy plane was damaged in the
air battle and another probably
desroyed. One Allied plane was
damaged.
The power of the U.N. air strike
compared with the opposition en
countered, underscored reports at
mounting Chinese anger that the
Russians have not kept their pro
mises to supply adequate air
power.
These reports said the Chinese
spring offensive fizzled because of
the non-delivery of the Russian
planes that had been counted on
as a major factor in the drive.
Denver Physician
To Attempt Climb
Mount McKinley
DENVER, (>P)—A Denver phys
ician said today he and seven
other men plan a six weeks ex
pedition in an attempt to scale
the summit of 20,270 foot Mt. Mc
Kinley in Alaska. It is the highest
peak in North America.
Dr. Henry A. Buchtel, one of
Colorado’s most skillful mountain
climbers, said the expedition
would make the trip next month.
They will leave Denver by air
June 10 for Anchorage.
Buchtel said Mt. McKinley had
been climbed only six times pre
viously and never by the hazard
ous “west buttress” route which
his party will attempt.
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