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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,767 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1951_ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ?RICE TEN CENTS
Mac Arthur Peace Talk Proposal Arouses UN
10 AVOWED
CONNIES
IN ALASKA
WASHINGTON, March 26 —(£1—
The latest FBI report lists only 10
avowed Communist party members
in Alaska and 36 in Hawaii.
The figures were given today by
Director J. Edgar Hoover in a copy
righted interview in the magazine
“U. S. News and World Report.”
Hoover disclosed that the FBI has
secret a tents among a group of
American Communists which he said
"has gone underground for possible
actv,n at a later date.”
"This technique,” he added, “is
necessary in keeping abreast with
clandestine operations of any sub
versive organization.”
He said “All that remains of the
Communist party above ground is
a self-constituted core, which for
appearances sake maintains a pub
lic contact.”
A new FBI "count” of party mem
bers in the United States puts
their total at 43,218, a drop of more
than 20 per cent from the 55,000
figure Hoover announced last year.
The party itself has stopped issuing
membership figures.
Hoover’s breakdown on avowed
Communists showed 22,575 in New
York — more than five times the
number in any other state. Next
was California with 4,550. The list
gave Washington State 807 and
Oregon 150.
Second Death from
Assassination, Iran
TEHRAN, March 26. — t.fl—A
second assassination death was re
recorded yesterday in this terror
threatened capital, now under mar
tial law. Dr. Abdul Hamid Zan
ganeh, former education minister
of Iran, died from the bullet a
student fired into him last Monday.
Premier Ali Razmara was assas
sinated March 7 by a member of
the Moslem terrorist group. Pedayan
Islam.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Lyle Edgington of Anchorage is
stopping at the Gastineau Hotel.
STOCK OUCiATIONJ
NEW YORK, March 28 — Closing
quotation of Alaska juneau mine
stock today is. 3 Vi | American Can
112'■, American Tel. ancf Tel. 154'i,
Anaconda 39'Douglas Aircraft
95. General Electric 541,. General
Motors 51' . Goodyear 73 '., Kenne
cott 74',. Libby, McNeill and Libby
91 , Northern Pacific 33, Standard
Oil of California 45Vi, Twentieth
Century Fox 21'i, U. S. Steel 42,
Pound $2.80',A, Canadian Exchange
95.37’i.
Sales today were 1,300,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 249.06, rails 80.61, utili
ties 42.92.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1951. or Bell Syndicate. Inc..
(Ed. Note—Drew Pearson has just
returned to the United States. The
following column, diagnosing the
question of “Will There Be U ar?“
was written just before he re
turned.)
LONDON.—The most important
question I came to Europe to an
swer is: Will there be war this
year? Will Moscow strike before
Western Europe can be rearmed?
It stiU remains extremely diffi
cult to answer that question, but
my personal hunch is there will not
be war.
The word “hunch'; is used ad
visedly. For all the ingredients fere
on hand to make w'ar. Moscow has
ample troops on the Yugoslav bor
der to attack overnight. Moscow
also has ample troops in Germany
plus heavy concentrations of the
old Nazi Luftwaffe, plus important
reserves of tanks and repair shops
to throw us out of Germany and
march to the English channel in a
couple of weeks.
Furthermore, Russian diplomats
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Welcome Home, Dad
Staff Sgt. Bud Hibbs of Gadsden. Ala., greets his 10-month-old
daughter. Linda Kay. whom he has never seen before while Mrs.
Hibbs joyously hangs onto her marine husband. Hibbs was among
1500 marines who returned from Korea aboard the Navy transport
USS General Randall. The ship docked at Oakland, Calif. </P) Wire
photo.
MAY OPPOSE
NEW TERM
FOR TRUMAN
By JACK HELL
WASHINGTON, March 26 — M—
The signs indicated today that any
new term bid by President Truman
may meet with opposition within his
party.
Most Washington politicians will
ing to talk about it apparently think
Mr. Truman has hit a new low in
popularity because of recent ex
posures of alleged influence rackets
within his administration.
Many of these politicians agree
that the Korean war venture has
had a bad political reaction on the
Truman administration, despite its
recent military turn for the better.
Labor has been firing broadsides
at the President’s production and
economic stabilization setup and
doesn’t seam to be much nearer to
reconciliation than it was several
weelfs ago.
The railroad switchmen’s dis
agreement with management goes
on with little apparent -progress to
ward solution. Railroad union men
generally are credited with feeling
they haven't been treated entirely
fairly by the White House.
To all of this has been added a
sure sign that the President will
have some expertly-led opposition
from Southern Democrats if he
should decide he wants another
four years in the White House.
NO TRACE OF
CLOBEMASTER
LOST AT SEA
SHANNON AIRPORT, Ireland.
March 26 —I/Pi— Ships and planes
swept the North Atlantic for the
fourth day today seeking a trace of
the vanished U. S. Air Force Globe
master and its 53 American airmen.
Speculation that the giant plane
had been sabotaged appeared in the
British press.
Officials, their hopes virtually
dashed that any of the missing air
men would be found alive, remained
silent concerning what might have
happened to the big transport. But
there has been speculation in Brit
ish newspapers that it might have
exploded in flight. The newspapers
said they considered it odd that so
few clues have been found in the re
latively well-traveled area of the
Atlantic.
A giant U. S. Navy aircraft car
rier and two destroyers were joining
the air-sea hunt for the Globe
master.
Little Girl, Living
On Borrowed Time,
Dies Before Party
DENVER, March 26. — Wt— The
miracle that a mother prayed for
didn't happen, and Dorothy Ann
Otwpll died yesterday, the day
Christendom observes its greatest
miracle.
The five-year-oid Anniston, Ala.,
girl already was living on borrowed
time. Doctors had said a brain tumor
would kill her by Valentine’s Day.
As a last resort, her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert R. Otwell, brought
her to a chiropractic sanitarium,
here. Its head, Dr. Leo Spears, gave
then: 1’ttle hope, but Dottie Ann
began to improve slightly.
An Easter party was planned.
Candy eggs, fuzzy bunnies and a
toy piano were stacked near Dottie
Ann’s bed where she could see and
touch them.
Shortly before the party, Dottie
lapsed into unconsciousness and.
according to Dr. Spears, “slept it
out.”
DEWEYSIGNS
LOYALTY BILL
ALBANY, March 26. — UP) — Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey signed today a
drastic loyalty bill authorizing quick
dismissal or transfer of suspected
subversives from “security” jobs in
state and local government.
The measure, which bars court
review of action taken against em
ployes, has been widely criticized.
In signing the legislation, Dewey
said:
“The bill presents a sincere at
tempt to combat within the state
government the danger of persons
dedicated to foreign ideologies.
SKIFF FOUND
Tracy Hawley of Ketchikan who
was reported missing in a 13-foot
skiff a mile and a half north of
Ketchikan, was found on Betton
Island this noon, U. S. Coast Guard
headquarters reported today. The
search which began last night by
CG patrol boat continued this
morning until Hawley was located.
KETCHIKAN VISITOR
V/. T. Stuart of Ketchikan is at
the Hotel Juneau.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Earanof from Seattle scheduled
to arrive Tuesday 7 a.m. and sail
at 12 noon.
Princess Norah from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive Tuesday after
noon or evening.
Coastal Rambler from Seattle in
port and scheduled to sail out late
tonight.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle 4 p.m. Friday.
PRES. URGES
HEMISPHERE
STREHGTH
WASHINGTON, March 26.—(ffl—
President Truman urged the na
tions of the new world today to
strengthen and coordinate their de
fense forces against “great perils”
posed by the ’’aggressive expansion
of the Soviet system toward our
own hemisphere.”
“We must now plan as a primary
(ask for the strengthening and the
coordinated use of our defense
-crces in this hemisphere," Mr,
Tinman said in a speech prepared
for the opening of the inter-Ameri
can foreign ministers’ meeting.
“We must also consider how we
may best use our strength to sup
port the cause of freedom against
aggression through the world.”
In those words the American chief
executive sounded the theme which
this government hopes will guide
the work of the foreign ministers
of the 21 American republics meet
ing here tn their fourth session.
In advance of the foreign mini
sters’ conference, it was learned
that Mr. Truman’s administration
is giving urgent consideration to an
$80,000,000 military air program for
Latin America.
Mr. Truman laid heavy stress in
his speech on what he called a
need for action to “concert our
defenses and combine our strength
in order to support men in Europe
and Asia who are battling for free
dom.”
He pictured the Soviet system as
one of "unbridled power, imposing
slavery at home and aggression
abroad.”
He assailed the theory—advanced
by' some of his political opponents
lh this country—that the American
nations can protect themselves re
gardless of what happens to the rest
of the world.
"There will be no security in
the world without the U. N.,” he
asserted. "Powerful and productive
as the Western Hemisphere is, we
cannot make it safe by building a
wall around it.”
While he did not specify the pre
cise steps he hopes the conference
meeting here for the next two or
three weeks will take, it is known
that the U. S. hopes to get agree-j
ment (11 lor development of a
strategic plan for Western Hemi
sphere defenses, (2) lor building
up the total strength of the Latin
American nations on Which the U.
N. could call for help against ag
gression anywhere.
SAYS POLICE
PAID URGE
GRAFT SUMS
WASHINGTON. March 26 —Iff)—
Brooklyn Judge Samuel S. Leibo
wit says that gambling rackets;
pay $25,000,000 a year to New York
policemen for protection.
Leibowitz, who presided over the
Kings County court, told the Sen
ate Crime Investigating Committee
that one Brooklyn bookmaker, Harry
Gross, "paid out over a million dol
lars in graft to venal members of
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperature tor M-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau — Maximum, •
• 40; minimum, 34. •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 37; minimum, 34. •
•• •
• FORECAST •
• Cloudy with occasional light •
• rain tonight and Tuesday. •
• Lowest temperature tonight •
• about 35 and highest Tuesday •
• near 40. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
• City of Juneau — .48 inches; •
• Since March 1—6.41 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 57.31 inches; •
• At Airport — .08 inches; •
• Since March 1—3.53 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 36.01 inches. •
• ••••••••••
On the Way Down
emji m,*.^ ■■ '
U. S. Paratroopers spill out of flying boxcars 21 miles northwest of Seoul and nine miles south of the
38th parallel in a surprise maneuver expected to trp thousands of Chinese Communist troops. The para
troopers linked up with advancing UN ground troops and armor shortly after landing. <ffl Wirephoto via
radio from Tokyo.
MORAN IS
INDICTED,
PERJURY
NEW YORK, March 26 —M4—
James J. Moran, resigned. New York
water commisssioner, was indicted on j
perjury charges today growing out
of testimony before Senate crime
investigators.
Also indicted on charges of lying
under oath to the Senate committee
was Louis Weber, acknowledged
Brooklyn numbers bookmaker. The
indictments were returned by a Fed
eral grand Jury.
Moran, a long-time political pro
tege of ex-Mayor William O’Dwyer,
was accused of falsely telling the
committee that Weber visited his
office no more than six times be
tween 1946 and 1950.
deportation” '
FOR COSTELLO
NOT POSSIBLE
WASHINGTON, March 26,—(An—
Attorney General McGrath told
senators today there is no way un
der the law to denaturalize or de
port Frankie Costello, New York
racketeer.
McGrath testiiied before the sen
ate crime investigating committee
that Costello ha sbeen convicted
only once of a serious crime—car
rying a concealed weapon in 1915—
and for that reason is not subject
to deportation.
The Attorney General said the
law states an alien must have been
sentenced twice for a serious crime
which occurred within five years
of his entry into the country be
fore he is subject to deportation.
He noted that Costello, born in
Italy, became a naturalized citizen
in 1925.
Even if he were denaturalized,
McGrath said that would not be
sufficient for his deportation.
McGrath charged that some
newspapers he did not name were
"deliberately trying to make it ap
pear that the Department of Jus
tice has some means it could vise
to denaturalize and deport Mr. Cos
tello.”
McGrath said this was not true.
224 DEATHS OVER
EASTER HOLIDAY
IN UNITED STATES
i _
By Associated Press
Traffic and a variety of other
accidents caused 224 deaths over
the weekend as the nation cele
brated Easter.
Between 6 p.m. (local time) Fri
day and last midnight, the known
traffic fatalities had climbed to 159,
and deaths from miscellaneous cases
to 65.
Easter Was
Celebrated,
World Over
By Associated Press
Continuing international tensions
heightened the fervency of peace
hungry Easter celebrants through
out the Christian world yesterday.
Even in Eastern Europe, where
orthodox Christianity no longer is
favored as a way of life, Easter
services were jammed.
Thousands of Pilgrims flocked to
the site of the Holy Sepulchre in
Jerusalem. They found in the Holy
Land a twentieth century symbol
of the crown of thorns — barbed
wire entaglements remaining from
the 1948 Arab-Jewish fighting.
Pilgrims to Rome heard Pope
Pius XII make a fervent appeal for
brotherly accord to free the world of
lust and violence so that all might
live and work in peace.
Chaplains with United Nations
forces in Korea held services at
crude outdoor altars to bring their
embattled congregations Christ’s
message of hope.
An urgent wish for a peaceful,
ordered world was the dominent
theme of observances everywhere.
In Communist-governed Czecho
slavia, in Soviet-occupied East Ger
many and in Moscow itself. Easter
services were jammed. In the Philip
pines, soldiers with fixed bayonets
guarded the faithful from possible
raids by the Red-inspired Hukba
lahaps.
There were cheerful aspects, how
ever. New York and Paris staged
the customary Easter fashion shows.
Sudden showers fell in Israel, break
ing the worst drought in 80 years.
COMMIELIST S
NOW DEMANDED
FROM JUS. DEPT.
WASHINGTON, March 26.—UP)—
The Justice Department today was
asked to issue a current list of Com
munist and Red front organizations.
Senator Wiley (R-Wis) in a letter
to Attorney General McGrath said
a new listing of such groups would:
1. Be beneficial to national se
curity.
2. Be beneficial "to the foolish in
dividuals who might otherwise be
stupid enough to Join a group which
they might not realize was sub
versive because no one had ever
j documented it as such.”
Up to date, the Senator wrote
'McGrath, the Justice Department
has only listed some 120 Com
munist and Communist front groups
in this country.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Edwin M. Bonn of Anchorage is
at the Gastineau Hotel.
\ ANCHORAGE VISITOR
j. Edwards of Anchorage is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
GOVERNOR MAKES
COMMENT REGARD i
EDUCATION HEAD |
In signing Senate Bill No. 92, an
act amending the previously exist
ing provisions concerning the quali
fications of the Commissioner of
Education, Governor Ernest Gruen
ing today gave out the following
statement:
“A considerable number of letters
and telegrams in opposition have
been received from teachers, school
administrators, parents and civic
groups, based on press dispatches,
the burden of which is that this net
lowers the standards required of a
prospective Commissioner of Educa
tion and that this is objectionable.
If the act did this I would consider
these protests fully warranted.
"A reading of the act itself, how
ever, leads me to an entirely con
trary view and in order to let the
public know that I am aware of the
protests, have given them full con
sideration and feel that the fears
they reveal should be allayed, I am
making this statement.
Broadens Requirement
“Section 37-2-21. ACLA, contains
the provision that the Commissioner
of Education shall, in addition to
being a citizen of the United States,
‘be chosen upon merit, and because
of his special fitness to propose and
execute beneficial educational poli
cies for the general supervision,
government and control of the pub
lic schools of the Territory’ and
shall have ‘the qualifications requir
ed of a teacher in high schools of
the Territory of Alaska.’ These last
qualifications consist of a Bachelor’s
decree with a major and minor in
subjects commonly taught in high
schools and sixteen semester hours
of education courses.
"Senate Bill No. 92 merely re
moves that one narrowing require
ment, that the candidate shall have
taken a few specific undergraduate
courses, and substitutes a broader
requirement, that the Commissioner
shall be chosen 'according to quali
fications prescribed by the Board of
Education.’ That does not constitute
a lowering of standards. On the con
trary, it makes possible the raising
of standards as it permits the Board
to establish specifications, compli
ance with which should assure that
the person so selected will be truly
‘chosen upon merit, and because of
his special fitness to propose and
execute beneficial educational poli
cies for the general supervision
government and control of the pub
lic schools of the Territory.’ ■
Expanded Scope
“In keeping with the trend of our
times, and Alaska’s grow th in popu
lation, our system of public educa
tion has been increasing in size
scope and complexity. For the school
tjiennium 1929-30, immediately fol
lowing the Legislative session at
which the previous qualifications of
the Commissioner were first drawn
up, he had a total of $398,485.18 to
administer for the supervision and
support of schools. Although since
that date, an important share ol
the cost of education has been as
sumed by local communities through
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GENERAL
AROUSES
DISPUTE
Attack on Coastal China
Might Have Been Start
ed forCertain Purposes
By JOHN M. HIOHTOWF.R
WASHINGTON, March 26 —Iffl—
The dispute that rages between
General Douglas MacArthur and
the Truman administration over
how to win the Korean war has
reached fever heat again. The ad
ministration may shortly ask the
general to clear with Washington
anything he says involving broad
foreign policy issues.
This may or may not prove ac
ceptable to MacArthur, but State
Department officials as well as some
others with great influence at the
White House privately say some
thing must be done to prevent a
repetition of last week’s exchange
of shocks and harsh words between
Tokyo and Washington.
Ignores Truman’s Order
President Truman circulated last
December a firm, government-wide
directive declaring that any state
ment on foreign policy by any of
ficial or employe of the government
in a speech, article or other public
utterance, should be cleared with
the State Department. Informants
said today that order was called to
MacArthur’s attention at that time.
Friday night, Washington time,
MacArthur left Tokyo for the 38th
Parallel area of Korea to order UN
forces to cross into North Korea
as tactical requirements made nec
essary. Before leaving Tokyo he is
sued a statement to the press.
Bid for Peace Talks
In this statement he made a bid
for peace talks with his opposite
number on the Communist side, said
the Chinese Reds were licked and
incapable of waging modern war
and warned that if the United Na
tions launched attacks on Chinese
bases and coastal area the Red na
tion would probably suffer military
collapse.
This statement, a check showed,
caught the State Department com
pletely unawares. It apparently also
caught President Truman without
advance notice.
Coastal Attack Hinted
The key MacArthur clause which
set off the alarm here was that the
United Nations could probably suc
ceed in forcing a military collapse
of Red China by a limited coastal
attack and base-bombing war. A
Tokyo dispatch yesterday suggested
MacArthur probably was trying to
divert the Chinese Reds’ attention
from Korea to the danger of a
coastal attack.
Acheson Surprised
' Whatever his objective, any state
ment he makes — even hedged in
with "lfs” — about extending the
war in the Far East always sends
huge shudders among the Canadian,
French, British and other friendly
governments. When the Europeans
come into the State Department
wanting to know "what does Mac
Arthur propose to do,” Acheson and
his aides get upset about the prob
lems of holding together the politi
cal side of the coalition of which
MacArthur is military commander.
PALLBEARERS NAMED
FOR MINNIE FIELD
FUNERAL WEDNESDAY
Funeral services for Minnie Field
will be conducted at 2 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon by the Re
bekah Lodge in the IOOF Hall.
Active pallbearers will be Oene
Vuille, James Rollison, Joe John
ston, Alva Blackerby, Ed Shaffer
and Glenn Oakes.
Honorary pallbearers will be H. L.
Faulkner, George W. Folta, H. R.
Vander Leest, Albert White. Norman
Cook, John Marshall John Krug
ness. Dr. J. O. Rude, and Stanley
Nowicka.
Miss Field passed away a week
ago in Seattle where she had gone
for medical attention. Last Novem
ber she sold her Minfield Home
where she had mothered hundreds
of homeless and neglected children.
FROM VANCOUVER
James Lundgren of Vancouver,
Wash., is at the Baranof Hotel.