[KE] THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS 'ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11.802
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
TRICE TEN CENTS
“1st Blow Next War May Be DecisiveMac
Catholic Mother and Brood
Mrs. Theresa Matsudaira, 49-year-old Japanese mother of Seattle,
Wash., is surrounded by her twelve admiring children* after learning
that she had been chosen Catholic Mother of the Year. Children
(left to right, rear) are: James, 18; Michael, 26; Pauline, 16; Fran
cis, 21; and John 28. Behind mother are (left to right): Joseph, 11;
Martin, 13; and Thcophane, 15. On couch are Ida, 8, (left) and
Theresa, 5. On floor arc Stephen, 2'j, (left) and Vincent, 6. (P)
Wire photo.
MILITARY CURFEW
TO PROTECT HEALTH
TERR. SERVICEMEN
ANCHORAGE. Alaska, May 5,—
UP!—A curfew designed to “protect
the health and welfare of service
men" has gone into effect for mil
itary personnel in the Anchorage
and Palmer areas.
An order announced by Maj.
Maurice Murdock, Provost Mar
shal at nearbv Elmendorf Air Force
base, places all bars, clubs, dance
halls, and night clubs off limits to
military personnel between 1 a.m.
and 8 a.m. weeknights and 2 a.m.
and 8 a.m. Sundays and on holi
days observed by the military.
Murdock said he felt it was “ne
cessary to place these establish
ments out of bounds for the pro
tection of the health and welfare
of servicemen.”
Long Confirmed
As Governor of
Terr, of Hawaii
WASHINGTON. May f> — UP) —
The Senate has confirmed Oren
E. Long to be governor of Hawaii.
He was nominated by President
Truman to succeed Ingram M.
Stainback, appointed to a judgeship.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. By Bell Syndicate. Inc..
This week Congressman Walter
E. Brehm of Ohio was found guilty
of taking salary kickbacks from
his stenographer. This culminated
an expose by Drew Pearson, which
began September 26, 1950, when
Pearson for the first time revealed
the Congressman's kickbacks.
Brehm immediately called Pearson
a liar and threatened to sue. Pear
son's reply was to print more facts
about Brehm's kiekbaeks — facts
that #vere substantiated by a jury
this week.
This follows another spectacular
Pearson expose which led to a jail
sentence for ex-Congressman Par
nell Thomas of New Jersey.
Incidentally, the only two eases
in the entire history of the United
States of Congressmen going to
jail for salary kickbacks, have re
sulted from the bird-dog reporting
of Drew Pearson. In each ease, he
was called a liar. But proved his
case.
TFaSHINGTON.—They say that
woman members of Congress aren’t
smart, that they don’t measure up
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SELECTED
i)t. Mary T. Martin Sloop (above),
77, o." Crossnore, N. C'., known as
the “grand lady of the Blue
Kidge” has been selected as the
“American Mother of 1951.” She
practices medicine with her coun
try doctor husband. Their two
children also are doctors in the
same county; iIf) Wirephoto.
GOV. WARREN
TO ATTEND UA
GRADUATION
SACRAMENTO, May 5 —Ifll—Gov
ernor Earl Warren is going to Alaska
on a four-day trip.
His office said today he has ac
cepted Governor Ernest Gruening’s
invitation to attend the University
! of Alaska commencement May 21.
The governor's office said it had
no details on Warren’s program in
Alaska except that he will attend
the University commencement. Hi
will leave Fairbanks May 21.
Asked about the Alaska trip, the
governor said:
“Gee, I'd like to stay up there
and fish.”
He has never been to Alaska.
Warren said he may take his eld
est son, Earl. Jr., 20, on the trip if
Earl can get away from his studies
at the University of California Col
lege of Agriculture at Davis.
John B. Covington, former Juneau
: resident, returned yesterday from
South Carolina. He has previously
been working at the Juneau Cold
Storage Co. He is staying at the
Gastineau hotel.
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VERDICT IN
ANTI - TRUST
j LIQUOR CASE
Total of $12,000 in Fines
Given in Nolo Con- i
fendcre by Judge
: ANCHORAGE. Alaska. M.j 5 —'
j IJPI— A liquor association, fi’ i cor
! porations and 10 individuals i c< cu
of fixing liquor prices were fined a
o'.ai of $12 000 today.
They changed pleas of innocent!
to nolo contender* (no contest) on i
j'.'WKi-trust charges two weeks af.er;
j their (rial started In Federal court. !
Charges against more than 30!
; ether persons were disini d.
j Those pleading no con.e t nd j
I their fine-:
I Anchorage Liquor Dealer. Asso
ciation Inc, $5,000- Audit-rage Liq-|
uor Stores Inc., $1,000; Larry’s Inc., I
$1,000; Green Lantern Inc., $1 000; j
Last Chance Inc., $1,000; Hangar i
i Lounge Inc., $1,000; Laurence B.!
Stains, president of Larry's Inc . |
and a director of the association, ,
$200; L. McGee, president of Anch- j
orage Liquor Stores Inc., and a |
member of the association, $200. i
John D. Black, Frontier Saloon, j
$200; John T. Campbell, Mur-Mac i
I Lounge, $200; Walter Davis, Davis!
Liquor Store, $200; Albert Fox. D'
and D Bar, $200; Esther A. Fultz,
C and 9th Liquor Store, $200; Fred
W, Mayer, Polar Bar, $200; Soter
Chiamls, Western Liquor Store,
J200; H. L. Dout, Winn Hotel Liquor
I Store, ‘$200.
A settlement was forecast Wed
nesday when Federal Judge Anthony
Dimond excused the Jury saying the
case had "been continued for good
cause.” The trial began April 20
with predictions it might last two
months.
This was the second anti-trust
tried here after a series of indict
ments last year. A trial of taxicab j
operators ended recently with some i
convicted and others acquitted.
UN FORCES !
i LOOKING FOR
; RED TROOPS!
i
Tank - Infantry Columns;
Moving Info Korean No
Man's-Land Today
By OLEN CLEMENTS
TOKYO, • May 5 —UD— United
Nations tank-infantry columns
clanked into the Korean no-man’s
land on the! hunt for withdrawing
Red forces.
“This isn’t a general advance,"
said a spokesman at U. S. Eighth
Army headquarters,’“but we’re spar
ring for an opening.”
The armored columns struck
ahead on the western front for the
fourth consecutive day.
The Reds had pulled back on the 1
Central front. They withdrew on a
smaller scale on the Western front.
Spring Drive Wilts
The Red spring drive that began
April 22 had wilted in its first stage.
Now the UN Army was taking up
slack in the lines.
Except for the British Gloucester
shire battalion which was badly
mauled, no Allied units suffered se
verely in the Red drive that was
stopped just short of Seoul.
Enemy Suffers Heavily
The Chinese and Red Korean
forces suffered heavily, however.
Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, 8th
Army commander, estimated the
number of Red casualties in the
bogged spring drive at about 70,000.
A daily compilation of UN air
and ground forces communique tolls
placed the enemy dead and wounded
at around 50,000.
Eighth Army staff officers re
ported heavy Red troop movements
in rear areas.
Field reports Saturday listed 21,000
men and 500 horsey north of Chun
chon on the Central front.
Mine Fields Found
Presence of mine fields on the |
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MacArthur in Witness Chair
as Senators listened, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur faces the joint Senate armed services and foreign rela
tions committees (left), in Washington. Turns head during some comment (center) and looks grim
(right) as he told his side of the Asian situation. The genera) was quoted as questioning Russia's
capacity to throw any great weight of troops into the Korean fighting. Iffl Wirephoto.
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ACHESONTO
QUIT, STATES
CHICAGO NEWS
CHICAGO, May 5 — OTI — The
Chicago Daily News says Congres
sional Democrats expect Secretary
of State Dean Acheson to leave the
cabinet within 90 days.
In a dispatch from its Washing
ton bureau, by Paul R. Leach, the
paper said:
"Some of Acheson’s staunchest
Capitol backers say so much dam
age has been done to him in public
opinion by the running Republican
fight against his policies that Presi
dent Truman will have to 'make a
sacrifice’ of him.
"They are worried over what the
MacArthur committee hearings will
bring out on his Far Eastern poli
cies, especially if the Republicans
can prove he egged the President
into relieving the ‘Old Soldier’.”
The News said John Foster Dulles,
former New York Republican sen
ator and now adviser to the State
Department, is the “top man under
consideration” to replace Acheson.
IAPES ORGANIZED
HERE; DE LAND IS
NAMEDPRESIDENT
Constitution and by-laws of the
newly formed Alaska chapter, In
ternational Association of Public
Employment Services were adopted
this week at a meeting of employes
of the employment security com
mission here. Alaska has had mem
bership in the organization since
1940 but had not previously been
operating formally. Forty members
are currently active in the Alaska
chapter, an increase of twelve over
1950.
The 38th annual convention of
IAPES will be held in Rapid City,
South Dakota June 5-9, with Paul
Murphy of Harrisburg, Pennsylva
nia, as convention chairman. Ray
Solem of St. Paul, Minnesota, pro
gram chairman, announced that
four general forums and twelve
panels are being set up for the
four days of the convention. The
forum subjects are: "The Defense
Mobilization Pattern:” "Employers,
Workers and the Public Look at
the Employment Security Pro
gram;” "Place of Labor-Manage
ment Committees in National De
fense,” and "The Future Outlook
in Canada and the United States.”
Officers of the Alaska chapter
elected this week are Harry De
Land, president; Mrs. Lucille Glaf
key. first vice-president; George
Crisman, second vice-president;
Mrs. Evelyn Scott, recording secre
tary; Mrs. Pauline Whitaker, cor
responding secretary, and William
Goodman, treasurer.
Local chapters are contemplated
for Anchorage and Fairbanks as
well as Juneau, and organizational
meetings are to be held this month.
SIGNED
Cindy Garner (above) once had
aspirations to become a news
paperwoman. In fact, she studied
journalism in her home town of
High Point, N. C., and worked
on a weekly paper. But the lure
of Hollywood overcame the type
writer and she was recently sign
ed to a seven-year motion picture
contract. IP) Wirephoto.
ATOMIC BOMB TO
BE SET OFF IN
ALEUTIAN WATERS
SEATTLE, May 5 — UP>— Senator
M^gnuson (D-Wash) said yesterday
the government plans to set off an
atomic bomb 300 feet underground
in the Aleutians “to determine what
happens when a bomb is exploded
underground.”
“What they want to find out,” he
said, “is what would happen if a
saboteur should cause a bomb to
be detonated in a subway or in the
sub-basement of some building in
one of our large American cities.”
SEATTLE, May 5 — (jP — The
Alaska Steamship Co. passenger
shop Aleutian, which has spent the
winter at Houghton, was taken to
the Todd Shipyard today to begin
getting ready for summer service.
The ship is scheduled to leave
Seattle June 5 on her first voyage
of the season to Alaska.
tT'AMEP MOVEMENTS
Freighter Sailors Spice from Seat
tle due to arrive 5 p.m. today.
Baranof from Seattle due to ar
rive Tuesday morning.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 tonight.
Denali scheduled to arrive Sunday
at 2 a.m. and sails south at 3 a.m.
WILD CHEERS
GREET FIRST
TROOPS HOME
Seattle Blows Top-Guns,
Sirens, Mark Welcome to
Men Home form Korea
By PAUL WELLS
SEATTLE, May 5 - Wi— America’s
first Army fighting ir:en to return
from Korea on rotation came home
today — 1,502 strong — and were
given a blow-off-the-lid reception
by the grateful people.
From the time the big gray U. S.
Navy Transport, the General Le
Roy Eltinge, poked her nose under
sunny skies into the entrance of
Elliott Bay the din commenced.
Sirens, Planes Scream
Sirens and whistles blew. Jet
planes and bombers screamed over
head. Fireboats cascaded gallons of
spray, and scores of small boats
darled like doodlebugs around the
slow-moving troopship.
A 19gun salute boomed the ar
rival.
Full-throated cheers rose in seem
ingly endless waves from the packed
dock at the Seattle Port of Embark
ation as the 15,000-ton Eltinge inch
ed alongside and came to rest on the
dot of 8 a.m. PDT.
Bands blared and drum major
ettes cavorted against a background
of waving hands.
Long-Awaited Day
This was the day the 1.387 en
listed men and 115 officers had been
living for. This was the first time
they had set foot on American soil
in six months or more.
The returning GIs represented
every state, but the largest dele
gation was 109 Puerto Ricans.
As high military and civic dig
nitaries headed by Secretary of the
Army Frank Pace, Jr., looked on,'
the pier became a scene of heart
touching reunions. Scores of rela
tives from far-flung parts of the
country came here to meet their
men.
•
• WEATHER REPORT
• Temperature for 24-Hour Period
• ending 8:20 o'clock this morning
• In Juneau — Maximum,
• 54; minimum, 39.
•< At Airport — Maximum,
• 54; minimum, 30.
•
• FORECAST
• Fair tonight and Sunday.
• Lowest temperature tonight
• about 40 degrees. Warmer
• Sunday with highest temper
• ature about 65.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hour* ending 7:30 a m. today
• City of Juneau — None;
• Since May 1 — .19 inches;
• Since July 1 — 68.24 inches.
• At Airport — None;
• Since May 1 — .12 inches;
• Since July 1 — 39.39 Inches
General On Stand Third
Day Declares Red China
Could Be Defeated; Tells
More On Oriental Plans
BULLETIN — Washington, May
5 —IP)— Gen. Douglas MacArthur
testified today that “the first blow
in the next war may be the de
cisive blow."
COULD DEFEAT RED CHINA
WASHINGTON, May 5 — UP! -
Gen. Douglas MacArthur testified
today that if the United States un
leashes its power it could defeat
Red China without increasing it'
over-all military manpower.
The deposed Pacific Commander
declared it would take “only a re
latively small fraction” of the tota
U. S. manpower goal of 3,462,000 tr
JWC ENTERS GFWC
CONTEST 1951-52;
OFFICERS ELECTED
The Juneau Woman’s Club, at its
business meeting Wednesday, voted
to enter the 1951-52 General Fed
eration of Women’s Clubs contest
on Youth Participation in Com
munity Life, “Build Freedom with
Youth,” sponsored by the GFWC
and the Kroger Company of Cin
cinnati, Ohio.
The sum of *25.000 in prizes is
provided by the Kroger Company
which gave $80,000 in prizes for the
“Build a Better Community” con
test sponsored by the GFWC for
1949-50.
Tht prizes are awarded on the
basis of (1) the extent of youth
participation and carrying out of
the projects; (2) the degree to
which the community was united
through the participation of other
groups and agencies, and (3) the
results achieved bv the campaign
as measuied in terms of the needs
of the community.
Contest Purposes
me purposes oi trie contest are.
To help youth understand and love
American freedom by working with
adults to create freedom day-by
day on their own streets and their
communities; to give youth the ex
perience and technique of organized
action for the common good; to
develop ji youth the sense of be
longing and of responsibility in the
community, and to unify and im
prove the communities of America
as places where youth can grow
into healthier personalities. The
youth ages specified for participa
tion are 12-21, and the contest is
nation-wide.
Mrs. Gordon Gray reported that
a thankyou letter had been re
ceived from Austria for a shipment
of clothing sent by the JWC some
months ago.
New Officers
The nominating committee, Mrs.
I. E. Evans, Mrs. J. V. Cole and
Mrs. J. D. Alexander, presented
tne slate of officers for the com
ing club year all of whom were un
animously elected as follows: Pres
ident, Mrs. Don Morrison; vice
president, Mrs. M. O. Johnson; re
cording secretary, Mrs. C. V. Ru
dolph; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. J. W. Griffin; treasurer, Mrs.
Gordon Gray, and custodian, Mrs.
Howard Schleiter. Installation of
officers will take place on the
evening of Wednesday, May 16, at
the home of Mrs. J. V. Cole on
Glacier Highway.
BLG DATETuNDAY,
MEMBERS OF CDA
Tomorrow, May 6, is an import
ant date on the calendar for all
Catholic Daughters of America,
the members of the Court of the
Little Flower here as well as those
throughout the Courts all over the
nation.
The occasion is the National
Communion Sunday of the organi
zation and after the 8:30 mass the
members will meet in the Parish
Hall for breakfast.
TEXAS VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Graden Harger of
Ft. Worth, Texas, came in from
Yakutat on PNA yesterday and are
| stopping at the Gastineau hotel.
carry out his proposed campaign in
Asia.
Why Bombing Advocated
For the third day, MacArthur was
back in the witness chair before
enators inquiring into his dismissal
as Far Eastern commander and the
policy differences which led Presi
dent Truman to recall him.
MacArthur had advocated the
bombing of Chinese Manchurian
bases, a blockade of Communist
China and use of Chinese National
ist troops from Formosa.
President Truman and adminis
tration leaders have opposed this
progrnm on the ground that it might
ead to another great war. They
lake the position the fighting should
be confined to Korea if possible
despite the entry of Chinese Com
munist troops into the conflict
there.
Effect on Manpower
Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex)
asked the five star general about
the effect of his program on the
manpower goal.
MacArthur told him: “I will say,
in answer to your basic question,
that I am sure'the over-all strength
which is being provided now or de
bated now, would well encompass,
with prejudice to any other oper
ations or demands that may be
made upon it, the conclusion of
what I had in mind in the Far
East.
“It would only take a relatively
small fraction of that force to carry
on the campaign that I would have
in mind.”
Release Present Power
MacArthur said that to utilize full
U. S. power in the Far East, "...
there should be added increments
of both the Air and the Navy.”
"I believe these Increments would
be readily available without preju
dice to any other area or operation
that is in contemplation," he added.
What is necessary, MacArthur
argued, “is to release the power we
now possess so that it can be util
ized."
He notea tnat tne prepareaness
program goal Is expected to be
reached in about two years.
"During that time,” MacArthur
said, "those forces can be used in
Korea without prejudice to their
ultimate use some place else—mere
ly as a basts of training or some
thing of the sort.
"They would be quite available
if the projected program is only go
ing to reach ^ts completion and its
fruition at some future date of two
years or 18 months, whatever it
may be.”
Marshall To Be Called
The Senate Armed Services and
Foreign Relations committees, made
up of 25 senators, are sitting joint
ly to make a general inquiry into
the whole Far Eastern policy issue.
They expect to call Secretary of
Defense Marshall after completing
their questioning of MacArthur.
Other military figures also are to
be heard.
Marshall .who may get into the
witness chair on Monday, has been
mentioned repeatedly by MacArthur.
Yesterday, MacArthur testified he
understood Marshall, despite a dif
ferent view by the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, had taken the position that
turning Formosa over to the Chinese
Communists and admission of Red
China to the United Nations might
properly be discussed in any Korean
peace conference. But MacArthur
said he did not believe that would
ever be accepted as U. S. policy.
"Troops to Europe”
Newsmen are barred from the
committee session but are given a
stenographic report of what is said
after it first goes through censors
for removal of anything they think
might hurt the national security if
made public.
Senators coming in and out of the
sessions also give reporters in
formation.
Senator McCarran (D-Nev) told
them soon after the hearing began
that MacArthur had refused to dis
cuss the "troops-to-Europe” dispute
on grounds it involved “political
controversy." He said Senator John
son had sought MacArthurs views
on how many troops should be sent
to Europe to oppose Communism
there.