THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
UALL THE NEWS ALE THE TIME*
VOL. LXXVII., NO. 22,794
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1951
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PRICE TEN CENTS
UN Forces Withdraw Across 38th Parallel
MacARTHUR
WELCOMED
IN CHICAGO
17-Gun Salute Fired as
General Lands-Three
Million Witness Parade
CHICAGO. April 26 —W-Massed
thousands of Chicagoans and other
midwesterners shouted a welcome to
General MacArthur today.
The "Hi, Mac" ovation began
when the general's plane, the “Ba
taan,” landed at the Midway Air
port at 12:20 p.m.
The general’s big plane, from
New York, was guided through an
1.100-foot overcast by radio. Mac
Arthur came here for a big civic
ovation. It was the fourth such cele
bration since he returned to the
United States after he left Tokyo.
A 17-gun salute was fired as Mac
Arthur, preceded by his wife, Jean,
and son, Arthur, left the plane.
The city’s millions and thousands
from nearby cities were expected to
join in the 10-hour civic tribute to
the general. The celebration, shap
ing up as the biggest in the city's
history, was expected to draw some
3,000,000 spectators.
Chicago was in a holiday spirit
for the reception to the self-styled
“old soldier.” The city was decked
out in flags and bunting. Windows
in stores along the parade route
were boarded.
All public buildings are closed—
and most of the Loop stores closed
during the parade. The White Sox
baseball team made today an open
date by playing a double-header
yesterday. The Board of Trade and
some business houses closed at noon.
TAPLEY, STODDART
HAVE ARTICLES IN
CONSTRUCTION MAGAZINE
Alaska road construction is well
represented in the April issue of
Pacific Builder and Engineer. There
is an article on Alaska Road Com
mission work by G. M. Tapley,
chief, engineering division and also
an article by Hugh A. Stoddart,
Bureau of Public Roads division
engineer. The magazine is a pop
ular trade journal among the con
struction firms interested in work
in the Pacific Northwest and Al
aska. It is published in Seattle.
BRITISH RATIONING
WRECKS MARRIAGE
LONDON, April 26,—(£1—English
food rationing was blamed today
for wrecking the marriage of Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Brooks.
Mrs. Brooks, who is Irish, went
to Dublin with their two children i
five years ago. Charging desertion
Brooks offered one of her letters !
as evidence in his divorce suit: i
‘‘I will not, with the kids, share I
semi-starvation with you in Eng
land. We are staying tthere the
food is.”
The divorce was granted.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1931. or Bell Syndicate, Inc..
T^ASHINGTON. — When the
Senate Armed Services Committee
starts sorting out all the memos
and telecom messages exchanged
between the Pentagon and General
MacArthur the public may become j
more confused than ever about who
is right in the big debate.
For several documents and
memos prepared during various 1
phases of the Korean campaign—if i
set aside from the others—could be j
used to prove almost any point. I
Furthermore, it was once a par- j
adoxical fact that Secretary of
State Acheson was much closer to
General MacArthur's position re
China than the joint chiefs of !
staff. The wolf pack that always j
howls at Acheson's heels has been !
claiming he was responsible for \
MacArthur’s ouster. However, the
record shows first that this was j
not the case; second, that following j
MacArthur's disastrous retreat
from North Korea in early Decern- j
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Audie Murphy Married
Film Actor Audie Murphy, most decorated World War II hero, and
his bride, former airline stewardess Pamela Archer, cut their wed
ding cake at a reception following their wedding in Dallas, Tex.
Murphy and Actress Wanda Hendrix were divorced recently. It is
the first marriage for Miss Archer. UP) Wirephoto.
NO PULLING
OF STRINGS,
| MacARTHUR
j -
President Says General
May Go Where Pleases,
Say What Pleases
i WASHINGTON, April 26 —(jB—
President Truman said today he
will not “pull the strings” on Gen.
Douglas MaeArthur but will let him
| say what he pleases, when he pleaes
i and where he pleases.
The President told a news confer
' ence that under legislation setting
; up the rank of five star general and
j admiral, he could pull the strings
on MaeArthur but that he does not
propose to do so.
In response to a reporter’s ques
tion as to whether he could “pul!
the strings” on the general he oust
ed, the President said that MacAr
i thur may go where he pleases and
! say what he likes to say, now that
I he is back in this country.
About Whitney
The President was asked the
! status of Maj. Gen. Courtney Whit
1 ney, MacArthur’s chief aide.
He was told that Gen. WTittney
I had made a number of statements
j respecting the controversy.
! Mr. Truman replied that he seems
j to be press secretary and secretary
I to Gen. MaeArthur, and added there
j are a lot of things being said and
I he does not object to their being
j said.
I Mr. Truman said that at MacAr
I thur’s request, he made Whitney a
i major general.
As for Whitney’s status, the Pres
i ident suggested the question be put
I up to Secretary of Defense Marshall.
It was then that he said he had
not, and did not intend to place
i any strings on Gen. MaeArthur,
i The President brought a gale of
laughter when a reporter said Whit
ney had reported MaeArthur didn’t
have the faintest idea why he was
1 relieved.
Everybody else knows ivhy, the
President said.
That N. Y. Times Story
The President declined to confirm
or deny a New York Times story
last week concerning an administra
tion document purporting to cover
Mr. Truman’s- conference on Wake
Island witi) MaeArthur last October.
He noted this story had said Mac
Arthur had apologized to the Presi
dent for previous comments on the
Formosa question.
The questioner asked how there
happens to be a document covering
the hour in which Mr. Truman and
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Chena Slough
Ice Goes Oul
At Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 26—
— The Chena river ice went out
here at 5:31 a.m. yesterday (Wed
nesday).
To oldtime Alaskans, it was a
signal that the Nenana river ice
will start moving within two or
three days.
That is the breakup that is await
ed throughout Alaska.
Three Fairbanks residents who
shared the award for guessing clos-.!
est to the Chena breakup time were
William Russel, Lucille Alban and
Walter Price.
ALUMINUM
PLANT IN
NORTH BC
MONTREAL, April 26 —(/PI— De
cisions to launch immediately a new
expansion program in the Canadian
aluminum industry, involving the
first stage of a vast new integrated
aluminum development in the re
mote area of British Columbia, were
announced today by Nathanel V.
Davis, president of Aluminum Lim
ited.
He also announced construction
of another major hydro-electric
power site at Chute Savanne in Que
bec’s Saguenay district at an esti
mated cost of $60,000,000.
In a speech to shareholders at the
company’s annual meeting Davis
said the Canadian developments
would be undertaken- by the com
pany’s subsidiary. Aluminum Com
pany of Canada, Ltd.
He estimated the total capital
expenditure in the program at $220,
00®,000, of which $160,000,000 would
be the cost of the first stage in the
British Columbia development. The
construction at Chute Savanne will
include new ingot facilities.
The Aluminum Company of Can
ada will establish an industrial em
pire in the heart of North-Central
British Columbia, he saM.
Work Starts This Year
Decision to go ahead with the
$550,000,000 plant, the first stage to
be started this year, will provide
thousands of jobs for British Colum
bia workers.
Near a tidewater Indian village
at Kitimat, 400 miles from Van
couver, will be established a city
of 50.000 when the plant is completed
a short distance from the ocean
port of Prince Rupert.
The company has spent $10,000,
000 in preliminary work, will build
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Liquor Case
Is Underway
At Anchorage
Fifty-three Defendants,
Charged with Conspir
acy to Raise Prices
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 26—
| (jf)—The anti-trust trial of Anchor
age retail dealers started yesterday
in Third District Court with the
government and live defense at
torneys presenting opening argu
ments to the jury.
The five-woman, seven-man jury
was selected after more than two
days. Four alternate jurors also were
selected.
Fifty three defendants are charg
ed with a conspiracy to raise, fix
and maintain prices of bottled al
coholic beverages in Anchorage and
vicinity.
Government’s Case
In outlining the government’s
case, Chief Government Attorney
Isador Cohen emphasized that "this
is not a monopoly case, but a pre
fixing case.” He said the govern
ment would prove an illegal agree
ment among the defendants in ef
fect between January, 1947, and
June 5, 1950. The latter was the date
of the grand jury indictment.
Cohen said testimony would show
that at a meeting of the Anchorage
Retail Liquor Dealers Association,
Inc., in June, 194?, the defendants
agreed to prepare and distribute
uniform price lists.
“You will hear testimony of a
certain dealer who used redeemable
tokens as a means of attracting
business — but that competition
blocked his efforts,” Cohen said.
Crime Agreement
Cohen acknowledged that the
“agreement was not always 100 pei
cent effective,” and that not all
members attended association meet
ings. "But it’s the agreement which
is a crime,” he commented. He
added that individuals who may not
have attended the meeting knew the
agreement was in effect through
the price lists.
Bailey Bell, who represents one
association, 32 Individuals and four
corporations, declared the govern
ment would fail to show there was
any connection between half of his'
clients and the association.
“The government will show by its
own witnesses,” he said, "that it was
an OPA (Office of Price Adminis
tration) in effect, and that they
were in the habit of meeting with
the association officer in charge and
they got in the habit of having
him fix the prices, with all ■ com
plying.
TRUMAN ASSISTANT
ASKED TO TESTIFY IN
RFC INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, April 26, —Iff)—
Donald S. Dawson, Presidential as
sistant today was "requested" to
testify May 10 in the Senate In
vestigation of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation.
Senator Fulbrlght (D-Ark) an
nounced he has written Dawson
giving ,him until April 30 to ack
nowledge the "request”. Fulbright
heads a Senate Banking Subcom
mittee which has been looking for
over a year into charges that in
fluence and favoritism have fig
ured in RFC loans.
Last February, the subcommittee
reported to the Senate that some
RFC directors have yielded to in
fluence and named Dawson as one
of those who wielded influence.
HOSPITAL NOTES
Admitted to St. Ann's Hospital
Wednesday was Carla Motion. Dis
charged were Eileen Nickel and
i, Mrs. Benny Melvin.
Bom at St. Ann's Hospital to
Mrs. Harry Sturrock at 11:35
Wednesday morning, a boy weigh
ing 8 pounds 2 ounces.
I There was no one admitted or
discharged at the Government
Hospital.
Orginally more than two-fifths of
the land area of the earth, exclu
Isive of the polar regions, was cov
ered with primeval forest.
Seven in a Row
I>r. Janies E. Reilly looks over the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph (Jpton before removing: their
tonsils in a series of operations at Bay State Hospital, Boston Mass. Left to right: Melvin, 14, Margaret,
12; Charles, 10; Emily, 7; Herbert, 6; Maureen, 4; and Blanche, 2, who doesn’t seem to feel as happy
about the situation as her brothers and sisters. OB Wire'photo. ,
COLLECTOR S ITE M—Mary Lou Murphy, of Indian*
apolis, chooses specimens of starfish at Daytona Beach, Fia„ where
the fish have been found in treat numbers during this season.'
MISSING AP MAN IS
FOUND IMPRISONED
BY CZECH COMMIES
FRANKFURT, Germany, April 26
—(j¥)— Communist Czechoslovakia
announced today it has arrested
Associated Press Correspondent
William N. Oatis and hinted he
would be tried for "activities hostile
to the State.”
Oatis, chief of the AP’s Prague
bureau, vanished Monday — The
fifth employe of the AP Prague
bureau to disappear in three weeks.
Government statements seemed to
indicate the other employes, all
Czech Nationals, would be presen
ted in the role of witnesses against
Oatis.
The Correspondent, who had
complained to the U. S. Embassy
that he was being shadowed 24
hours a day, apparently was poun
ced upon by secret police Monday
night as he put his car in his gar
age.
For rare than 48 hours there
was no word of him. The U. S. Em
bassy, suspecting he was arrested,
demanded information from the
Czech Foreign Ministry. Today U.
S. Embassy Counsellor Tyler
Thompson said the Foreign Mini
stry told him Oatis wr«z arrested
on three charges:
“X. Activities hostile to thy State.
“2. Gather i? and rtlsscmirating
Information xnsidereti secret by
Czechoslovakia.
“3. Spreading malicious Informa
1 tion regarding tne Czech state
through illegal news organs, for
which purpose he misused Czech
citizens.”
ILWU UNION
APPROVES
DEMANDS
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26 —ii'P)—
Harry Bridges’ Bay Area longshore
men support the union’s new con
tract demands and approve its pol
icy of opposing government loyalty
screening of dock workers and wage
stabilization.
The International Longshoremen’s
and Warehousemen’s Union policy
was explained to members of
Bridges’ own Local 10 at a day
long meeting yesterday. The-ILWU
enforced a 19-hour stoppage on all
except essential and military cargo
so hundreds of members could at-,
tend.
The union demands a IP cents an
hour wage hike and employer con
tributions totaling 15 cents an hour
to a pension and welfare fund.
Fairbanks Man's
Brother Died in
Seattle Tuesday
SEATTLE, AlJrtl 26, —*.!*—Caleb
Albert Hughes, 62 year-old Sunny
side postmaster, died In a hospital
Tuesday. He was a veteran of
World War i.
Surviva l include his widow, Bess,
a son, Doiurid, and two brothers,
one of them Of Fairbanks, Alaska.
MORE TAXES .
REQUESTED
BY TRUMAN
Tighter Credit Controls and
"Fair Ceilings" on
Farm Products
WASHINGTON, April 20 — (API—
President Truman, saying inflation
ary pressures “have not yet reached |
their peak," asked Congress today
for higher taxes, tighter credit con
trols and “fair ceilings” on farm and
other products.
In a special message to the law
makers, Mr. Truman urged speedy
action. He said: “The world situa
tion could explode at any time, and
we must make every day count."
The President’s request for “fair
ceilings” on farm and other prod
ucts is aimed at permitting tighter
controls on food prices.
Price Control
“I do believe . . . that for price
control purposes, the parity price
for each commodity prevailing at
the start of its normal marketing
season should be applied through
out the balance of the marketing
season, Just as is the case in most
of our agricultural price support
programs.
"I recommend that the Defense
Production Act be amended to pro
vide for this.”
He said this sort of control would
suffice to stabilize food prices for
the time being.
If that doesn’t work, the President
said. Congress will need to consider
the use of other devices, "including
limited food subsidies to prevent
necessary farm price increases from
being reflected in rises in the cost
of living.”
Credit Control
In the field of credit control, Mr
Truman asked for authority to regu
late terms “on the sale of existing
houses, as well as new ones.”
The government now fixes down
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STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, April 26 — Closing,
quotation of Alaska Juneau mini
stock today is 2%, American Cai
114%, American Tel. and Tel. 154%
Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft
102, General Electric 55%. General
Motors 53%. Goodyear 76%, Kenne
cott 75%, Libby. McNeill and Libby
9%, Northern Pacific 32%, Standard
Oil of California 47%, Twentieth
Century Fox 20%, U. S. Steel 44%,
Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange
93.87%.
Sales today were 1,790,030 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 257.13, rails 82.77, uttli
, ties 42.24.
RED SURGE
CONTINUES,
LONG FRONT
Seoul May Be Abandoned
by Allies-Spirif High,
Confidence Expressed
By Associated Press
United Nations troops withdrew
from their last foothold north of
the 38th Parallel in West Korea
today. Seoul, the old South Korean
capital was being threatened by a
two-pronged Communist invasion
force 300,000 strong.
The Reds captured Munsan and
were reported less than 20 miles
from Seoul, being Invaded from the
north for the third time. Fifteen
miles to the east, the Communists
poured across the North-South
boundary and pushed along the
Yonchon-Iujongbu highway leading
to Seoul.
Red Surge
The Red surge — a gain of six
miles — endangered the Kaplnng
bulge, which the Allies had held
steady since the opening of the Chi
nese spring offensive Sunday night.
Slow withdrawals were made in
the bulge as the Allies traded real
estate for Chinese gains. The Allies
retreated toward Iujongbu and pull
ed back in the bulge’s Hwachon
Yanggu salient. Everywhere, dis
patches said, UN forces were "fight
ing a magnificent delaying action."
Heavy Commie Price
The Communists were paying a
heavy price for every foot of ground
they took. The blazing 100-mile
front was littered with Communist
dead, Allied commanders estimated
enpmy losses at 25,000 killed in the
first four days of their spring of
fensive.
The commanders maintained that
UN forces could wheel at any time
and stop the Reds. But retreat saved
Allied lives and was more costly
to the Communists.
UN Forces Intact
Despite withdrawals in the west,
the 14-nation UN force was intact.
Its spirit was high and there was
a quiet confidence in its vastly su
perior firepower.
As Allied troops streamed south
ward toward Seoul, sudden Chinese
thrusts caught some rear units. Most
fought their way out of Red traps.
These included Turkish, Belgian
and Australian units. A tank rescue
force opened the way for '100 men
from one trapped unit to make their
way to the main lines.
One veteran put it this way:
"Oh well, well fight our way back
by June and then we'll retreat again
in September."
In the center, the Chinese threw
100,000 men against UN lines in an
attempt to break through the Kap
yong bulge but they made little
headway. The big U-shaped dent in
the Allied lines is about 30 miles
northeast MT|feonl.
Here the Communists had intend
ed to push thefrfclg assault at night
but were foiled when the Allies used
powerful searchlight and star shells
to light up Chinese movements and
pound them with artillery.
Searchlights at the western end
of the Hwachon Reservoir turned
night into day and caught 1,000 Reds
marching down a road. Then the
artillery let loose.
"The wall of fire stopped the Chi
nese in their tracks," the official
report said. “Not one round of in
fantry fire was necessary."
To Bomb Enemy Bases
At Lake Success, the United
States proposed the bombing of
enemy bases in Manchuria, if the
Reds launch heavy air attacks on
UN forces. The recommendation was
outlined to the United States' 13 Al
lies fighting in Korea. None raised
objections to the idea, a U. S.
spokesman said.
A public declaration on Korean
policy had been planned about two
weeks ago by the UN countries com
batting North Korean and Chinese
aggression but the group cancelled
the plan because of the dismissal
of MacArthur from his Far East
command.
STUMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive Saturday after
noon or evening.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Baranof from westward scheduled
southbound Sunday afternoon.