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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,786
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1951
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Mac A rthur Flying from Honolulu over Pacific
ANTITRUST
SUIT AGAINST
CABS ENDING
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 17—
CP)— Attorneys were to begin clos
ing arguments today in the gov
ernment’s anti-trust action against
Anchorage taxicab operators.
Final testimony was given yester
day in the case against nine individ
ual taxicab owners, tv.ro taxi com
panies and two cab associations.
Court officials said the Federal
Court jury probably would begin
its deliberations some time tomor
row.
The defendants are accused by
the government of illegally fixing
prices to eliminate competition.
Concluding witness yesterday was
Lt. Col. James B. Davis, former legal
officer of the 57th Fighter Wing
at nearby Elmendorf Air Force
.tsase.
Meets With Operators
Davis told of meeting with Anch
orage cab operators when bids were
opened for runs at the military post.
“They (cab operators) indicated
they were making a joint bid so Carl
Sturdavant (head of the Inter-Post
Cab Company) would not get the
gravy and cream of the business,”
Davis testified.
Davis was recalled here from the
Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma,
where he is now stationed, to testify.
He told the court Sturdavant
originally was restricted in opera
tions at the base but later began
operating between Anchorage and
the base.
“In effect, they felt he took a
portion of their business away from
them and they were submitting a
bid to get away from that sort of
business,” the officer said. “They
said that as Intra-Post and later
the Richardson Cab Company they
would restrict their operations to
the base.”
Discuss Sturdavant
Davis added that Sturdavant was
the subject of a “bit of conversa
tion at the meeting.”
“None of them held him in very
high regard because of his ways of
doing business,” he said.
Davis said representatives of the
Yellow, Hy’s Red, and Union Cab
companies, plus one other, City or
Gray, were present at the meeting.
All the firms are defendants in
the trust case.
The government has contended
during the prolonged trial that com
peting Anchorage cab operators
banded together to get the frost con
tract away from Sturdavant, whose
minimum rates were lower than
theirs.
Denies Rate-Setting
Davis also testified he had never
heard of a base commander setting
taxi rates.
In an attempt to refute testi
mony of Capt. William Rawls, 39th
Air Police Squadron, who stated
Friday he had never told operators
what rates to charge, the defense
yesterday called Mrs. Harry Baker,
wife of one of the defendants, as a
rebuttal witness.
She said Raw'ls came to their of
fice where she was a dispatcher,
and produced an advertisement giv
ing rates of the Red Cab company.
“Those are the prices you will
charge from now on," Mrs. Baker
said Rawls told her.
COUNCIL MEETS FRIDAY
The second regular meeting of
the Juneau City Council will be
held Friday night in the City Hall
Council Chambers.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o’clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
48; minimum, 33.
At Airport — Maximum,
46; minimum, 28.
FORECAST
Continued fair this after
noon and Wednesday. High
est temperature this after
noon near 50 and lowest to
night about 32.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today
City of Juneau — None;
Since April 1 — 7.27 inches;
Since July 1 — 65.20 inches.
At Airport — None;
Since April 1 — 2.54 inches.
Since July I — 38.39 inches.
FAR EASTERN
POLICY WILL
GET PROBING
WASHINGTON, April 17 ——
Senate Republicans today proposed
creation of a 24-mVmber Senate
House Committee to make a broad
investigation of Far Eastern policy.
The GOP Policy Committee en
dorsed the idea as drafted by Sen
ator Ferguson (R-Mich) in 1112
form of a resolution for introduc
tion in the Senate.
The resolution calls for “a com
plete evaluation of the United
States policies in the Far East and
their relation to the foreign and
military policies of the United States
| as a whole.”
Senate Democratic leaders have
■ agreed there should be an airing
! of the policy differences behind
President Truman’s firing of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur from his Far
Eastern commands.
However, the Republicans pro
[ posed equal party representation on
j the suggested committee — 12 Dem
; ocrats and 12 Republicans.
The Democrats could be expected
! to insist that, as the majority party,
i they should have majority repre
I sentation on any inquiry group.
Both Senate and House would
i have to approve in order for the
! Republicans plan to be put into ef
' feet.
Both parties have accused each
other of playing politics in the Tru
man-MacArthur controversy.
Cha'irman Taft (R-Ohio) said the
GOP resolution had endorsement
from 33 Republican senators in ad
! vance of the policy committee ac
I tion.
—
OPPOSITION RISES
i WASHINGTON, April 17 —liPI—
! Senate Republicans, asking equal
; representation for their party, to
day proposed creation of a special
24-member, Senate-House commit
tee to Investigate Far Eastern poi
! icy.
! They promptly ran into Demo
| cratic opposition. Senator Russell
| (D-Ga) told the Senate the Armed
Forces Committee, which he heads,
and the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee are already moving
jointly to make an inquiry into for
eign and military policy. He said
they would cover the same ground.
Russell also announced postpone
ment of tomorrow’s scheduled start
of an inquiry by the Armed Serv
ices Committee only. Secretary of
Defense Marshall was to have been
the lead-off witness.
He said the postponement is de
signed to give his committee and
the Foreign Relations Committee,
headed by Senator Connally (D
Tex), time to work out plans for
joint hearings.
Russell raised his objections im
mediately after Senator Ferguson
(R-Mich) introduced a resolution
for a special Senate-House com
mittee. This idea had received for
mal endorsement from the GOP
Policy Committee at a forenoon
meeting.
MISSISSIPPI
RIVER RISES
ST. PAUL, Minn., April 17 —UFl—
Mississippi river communities in
Southeastern Minnesota are getting
their worst flooding in 70 years.
The river crested at 19 feet in
St. Paul last night — highest since
the peak of 19.7 feet in 1881 — and
the South St. Paul stockyards were
flooded out of operation for the first
time since their opening. Several
packing plants also shut down.
Huge ice cakes boosted along by
the rushing current yesterday tore
out a 480-foot section of wooden
trestle and pontoon bridges at
Read’s Landing, 75 miles south of
St. Paul. Wrecking of the span
forced rerouting of a Milwaukee
road branch line serving Minnesota
and Wisconsin.
Night and day shifts of trucks and
bulldozers hauling and placing rock
were strengthening dikes at Wi
nona, industrial center of more than
25,000 population 125 miles down the
Mississippi.
—
The Sahara Desert of northern
Africa is the largest arid region
jin the world.
GS COUNCIL TO MEET
TONIGHT, LUTHERAN (H.
DOROTHY PETRON
i Scout official now in Juneau.
A meeting of the Girl Scout
| council members and leaders of
[ troops will be held tonight at 8
i o’clock in the Lutheran church,
i Miss Dorothy Petron, Regional dlr
| ector of the National Field staff,
{will discuss activities and a future
! Scout program for this area.
! Tomorrow a group of council
i members and leaders will make a
j trip to Tee Harbor with Miss Pet
j ron to the site of the proposed girl
! scout camp. Tentative plans are
' under way to build within the next
j year or two at this location to
! provide facilities for summer camp
I ing.
| Thursday afternoon at 4:30
j o’clock Miss Petron will be inter
viewed over KINY by Mrs. Elton
Engstrozn, radio and publicity
chairman of the Girl Scout coun
cil. Friday will be the no-host
luncheon m the Gold Room at the
I Baranof. This is open to parents,
friends and the general public.
RESOLUTION
TO ASK FOR
WAR, CHINA
WASHINGTON, April 17 —IP)—
Senator Cain (R-Wash) said today
he has decided to go ahead and in
troduce a resolution for a declara
| tion of war against Red China.
Cain has been talking since Sun
day of proposing such a resolution.
; Some of his Republican Senate
I friends have been counseling him
; against it.
i Cain told a reporter he might in
j troduce the resolution late today if
i he could get the Senate floor.
“I have the resolution drafted
i and a speech written,” he said,
i Asked about reports that his Repub
\ lican colleagues had prevailed on
him yesterday to delay introducing
the resolution, Cain said:
“I have delayed — 24 hours.”
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
fCopyright. 1991. ay Bell Syndicate, Inc..
PpASHlNGTON— In private cau
cuses Congressional Republicans
haven’t been quite as outspoken
for General MacArthur, or against
President Truman—as in their pub-,
lie statements. Some have feared
the MacArthur issue, unless care-i
fully handled, might backfire and'
give the public the impression thatl
Republican chiefs favor a third
World War.
Congressman A. L. (Doc) Miller
of Nebraska warned of this at the
first caucus of House Republicans.
“We must not leave ourselves
open to Democratic charges that we
are subscribing to a war policy by
defending MacArthur,” MiUer cau
tioned. “In inviting the General
back here, it should be made clear
that we are not necessarily con
firming his policy on the far East
until we have heard his story.”
Congressman Fred Coudert of
New York seconded Miller, as did
several others, including Congress
man Jack Javits of New York.
"The American people,” Javits
cautioned, “have a right to hear
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HARMON EXPLAINS
WELFARE PROGRAM
TO ROTARY CLUB
Henry A. Harmon, director of
the Territorial Department of Wei.
fare, gave an interesting talk on
| the work of his department at a
regular Rotary Club luncheon this
noon at the Baranof Hotel. Bob
Akervick also gave a resume of
the additional $200,000 school bond
issue to be voted upon April 30. A
drawing for the Rotary-sponsored
Cub Scout Pack 311 basketball
tournament took place.
Harmon compared the ideals of
service in Rotary with the Welfare
department as the “service arm of
the Territorial government.” He ex
plained the five programs carried
on within the budgets allowed:
1. Old age assistance which is
not a pension, but aid to those
over G5 years who are in neefl.
There are 1628 being cared for in
the Territory at an average expen
diture of $52.94 each with 90 cases
in Juneau alone.
2. Aid to dependent children with
664 families with 1,515 children be
ing cared for in the Territory. In
Juneau there are 30 families total
ing 87 children receiving aid.
3. Juvenile code program takes
the cases which come from the U.
S. Commissioners courts. These are
the big problems, because home
and other influences have failed in
adjusting the children. In the
Territory there are 273 committed
to the department, of which 149
are being paid for at the average
rate of $51.11 per month per child.
Parents are charged with contrib
uting to the costs wherever possible.
4. General relief program for j
those persons unable to make a j
living and whose aid has been j
raised from $30 to $60 per month
by the last legislature. Of the'
$300,000 appropriated for the last I
biennium, $162,000 went for med-1
ica], hospital and burial of indig
ents, leaving the rest for the most
needy.
5. Child welfare service, -which
seeks through social workers to aid
parents and children in the home
before the problems reach the acute
stage. There are child welfare so
cial workers in Ketchikan, Fair
banks and Anchorage, but none in
Juneau, Harmon pointed out. The
cost to the City of Juneau for such
a work would be $250 monthly, he
said. The district welfare worker
who cares for cases north of Pet
ersburg to Haines and Skagway .
takes care of Juneau, making 8061
cases in this district. The normal
load for a welfare worker is from
50 to 100, he said.
Harmon cited the constructive
work with boys carried on through
the Scout program and stressed
the need for den mothers in the
Cub work. He said there was some
misunderstanding among many
persons as to the work of his de
partment and concluded with
"Don’t talk about us. Talk with
us.” *
Harmon's talk was most enthus
iastically received.
Akervick traced the history of the
new grade school building for Jun
eau which is to be built on the
old dairy property; the approved
bond issue of $750,000 when the
Alaska Public Works was to hatfe
participated in the construction;
the $150,000 spent for the property,
architects fees, and other expendi
tures; the revised plans to meet
the amount of money available;
and a plea to get out and vote
for the additional $200,000 bond is
sue on April 30.
Drawing of the Cub basketball
team play resulted in matching
Dens Two and Six; Dens Five and
Three; with Den 4 drawing the
first bye. The games are to be
played at 7:15 pun. on Thursday
and Friday of this week in the
Grade School gym.
Old members present were Claude
Carnegie and Charles Carter. Lar
ry Johnston of Washington, D. C.
was a visiting Rotarian. New mem
bers introduced were Ralph Marsh
and Dave Dunton.
Dr. I; J. Montgomery provided
the program and Tom Morgan will
be in charge of the program for
next week, it was announced.
TAX NOTICES OUT
Notices for taxes on the last half
of 1950 and delinquent taxes for
1950 were mailed out yesterday.
City Clerk C. L. Popejoy said to
day. The notices are on property,
personal property, automobiles and
i boats.
1 I
Near Journey's End
The Alaska-bound schooner Tantalus (right) and present crew (left to right, standing), Merle Dick and
Fred Parker and owner-sklppcr Warren Christianson (beard) and wife, Faith have sailed from San Fran
cisco with a final destination of Alaska. The craft, built in Columbus, O., in 1946, started the present
voyage at Minneapolis nearly two years ago. Cruise will continue to Seattle, then (about May 1st) Chris
tianson plans to take inland passage to Anchorage where he will take up the practice of law.
CANNERIES
TO OPERATE
THIS YEAR
Consolidation Program Is
Postponed According to
Secretary of Interior
WASHINGTON, April 17, —M—
The Interior Department postponed
for a year yesterday its proposed
consolidation program for the Al
aska Salmon Industry.
The plan calls for the closing
of some salmon packing plants
and the use of other plants to their
fullest capacity, in Srder to save
critical materials, manpower and
shipping space.
Interior Secretary Chapman said
the decision against putting the
program into effect this year was
made on the basis of recommenda
tions by Maurice Rattray, Deputy
Administrator of the Defense Fish
eries Administration.
Rattray conducted a series of
hearings on the plan at Seattle last
month.
He said that because supplies
and materials for the 1951 season
already have been procured for
the most part, the savings in ma
terials and manpower would be in
sufficient to justify the cost of
administering and supervising the
program.
Chapman saw a plan to make
the industry even more compact
will be considered for the next
season.
STOCK OUCiATION!
NEW YORK, April 17 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3, American Can
110%, American Tel. and Tel. 153%,
Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft
103, General Electric 55%, General
Motors 53%, Goodyear 76%, Kenne
cott 75%, Libby, McNeil and Libby
10%, Northern Pacific 38%, Stand
ard Oil of California 46%. Twentieth
Century Fox 20%, U. S. Steel 44.
Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange
94.43%.
Sales today were 1,440,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 255.34, rails 83.99, utili
ties 42.36.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive at 6:30 tonight
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Denali scheduled to arrive from
westward Sunday enroute south.
New Halibut
Areas Given
Out by IFC
Catch Limits for Various
Areas Also Announced
-Opening Dates
SEATTLE, April 17 —UP!— The'
International Fisheries Commis
sion announced today the creation
of two new halibut fishing area;
off the British Columbia and South
east Alaska coasts.
It announced the 1951 regulations
have been approved by the govern
ments of the United States and
Canada.
“Important changes are the es
tablishment of two recently under
fished sections of previous area 2
as separate areas and the opening
of these in late summer, at the time
when they used to yield their great
est catches,’’ said the commission
announcement.
“Among minor changes is a re
duction in the pre-season period
during which vessels may have their
licenses validated, to reduce chances
for illegal pre-season fishing.”
The areas (in full):
1 A—South of Cape Blanco, Ore.;
IB—From Cape Blanco to Willapa
Harbor, Wash.;
2A—Between Willapa and Cape
Spencer, Alaska, except for new
areas 2B and 2C;
2B—Southern Hecate Strait, off
British Columbia;
2C—Between Cape Addington and
Dixon Entrance, Southeast Alaska;
Area 3—Cape Spencer to a line
west from Cape Sarichef on Unimak
Island;
Area 4—Bering Sea north of Sar
ichef line.
Catch limits will be — 25,500,000
pounds for 2A; 28,000,000 for area
3 and 400,00 for area 4, both un
changed from 1950; no catch limits
set for 1A, IB, 2B and 2C.
The fishing season will open again
on May I, except in 2B and 2C. They
will open for 10 days on July 26.
The season ends in IB and 2A
when the 2A limit is caught and in
1A and 3 when the 3 limit is caught.
Area 4 closes at the same time
as 3 unless it is closed earlier by
reaching its own catch limit.
| The commission predicts a 1951
halibut catch “in excess of 56,000,
000 pounds,” which conforms closely
to the five-year average. The 1950
Pacific Coast catch was 57,250,000
pounds.
The commission said the 56,000,000
catch is about one-third greater
than the unrestricted fishery yield
ed in the year before commission
regulation began.
BRADLEY
BACKING
TRUMAN
Declares Mactrlhur's Asi
atic Poicy Would Jeo
pardize Peace
CHICAGO, April 17 — M— Gen.
Oma.’ N. Bradley, five-star peer of
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, today de
clared Asia military policies advo
cated by the deposed commander
would “jeopardlac world pence.”
Bradley was the first of the home
coming general’s five-star brothers
in rank to speak out publicly against
the theory of carrying the war to
China since President Truman dis
missed MacArthur last week. Brad
ley did not mention MacArthur’s
name.
Last year's quick UN action in
Korea, Bradley declared, may have
stayed the Kremlin’s hand as it
was about to precipitate World War
III.
Bradley roundly backed the Presi
dent's stand against MacArthur’s
ideas and defended the administra
tions’ policy of limiting the war in
Korea. As chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Bradley ha‘s a large
part in policy making.
In Washington, the Defense De-,
partment said Bradley's speech was
cleared by the State Department in
line with a White House edict last
December requiring clearance oi
policy statements by government
officials. In ousting MacArthur from
the Far East command, Mr. Truman
cited disregard of that order as a
reason for the action.
TWO-PIANO RECITAL
OUTSTANDING EVENT
High school students of Carol
Beery Davis preesnted an outstand
ing two-piano recital at the Gover
nor’s House Saturday evening. In
a setting of spring flowers, the
two grand pianos with performers
in vari-colored formals made a
lovely picture. The program ranged
from Bach to present day Infante
and were well Interpreted, and en
thusiastically received by the au
dience. Dainty refreshments were
served at a beautifully appointed
table afterward.
The Grade school recital Friday
evening in the Presbyterian church
parlors exceeded previous years in
excellence of performance and ar
tistic atmosphere. M s. Davis ex
presses thanks to aU co-operating
| in the success of the two recitals.
WELCOME
AWAITING
GENERAL
Dismissed Supreme Com
mander Is Due in San
Francisco Tonight
By Associated Press
Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s plane
Bataan heads for the United States
from Honolulu today, bringing home
the Pacific war hero to receive the
acclaim of the nation.
The dismissed suprefne command
er will arrive in San Francisco to
night and leave there tomorrow for
Washington, where he will challenge
in Congress Thursday the views of
President Truman who fired him.
Truman charged MacArthur’s poli
cies would lead to World War III.
Honolulu gave the five-star gen
eral a foretaste of the celebrations
ahead of him. For two hours Ha
waii’s polyglot population lined a
25-mile route and cheered Mac
Arthur, his wife, and son, Arthur.
He received an honorary degree
of doctor of laws from the Uni
versity of Hawaii. He visited the
National cemetery at Punchbowl
and placed a wreath of orchids at
the base of a flagpole in honor of
13,000 W-rld War II dead buried
there.
Given Acclaim
Everywnere ne was given uie ac
claim tendered a great conquering
hero. There was no note of antag
onism such as has split America
and the non-Comrtiunist world over
his views. MacArthur had urged
that the Allies bomb the Chinese
Communists’ "privileged sanctuary”
bases in Manchuria and use Chiang
Kai-Shek’s forces to open a sec
ond front against Red China.
Military Welcome
A 17-gun salute will welcome Mac
Arthur at San Francisco tonight.
The brief military welcome will give
way tomorrow to a civic celebration.
The general will be driven through
the streets to the city’s Civic Center,
where he will be formally welcomed
by California’s Oov. Earl Warren
and San Francisco's Mayor Elmer
Robinson. The ceremonies will be
carried to the nation by the press,
radio and television.
Korean Warfare
While the nation's main attrac
tion was on the returning war hero,
the warfare in Korea continued un
abated. Allied troops ripped into
Communist forces on the East Cen
tral front in the mounting battle
for the big Rwachon dam.
The Communists have been using
forest fires and smudge pots to hide
their movements from the prying
eyes of Allied pilots. As the man
made smoke screen began to lift, Al
lied planes again roared into action
with jellied gasoline bombs, rockets
and machineguns.
Artillery, Rifle Fire
Allied infantrymen opened up on
the enemy in the Hwachon dam
area with artillery and rifle fire.
Thousands of combat-ready Red
soldiers were spotted in the hills
north of the dam.
Lt. Gen. James a. Van Fleet, the
new Eighth Army commander told
correspondents the UN forces were
ready and able to contain any Com
munist thrust.
Allied troops maintained their
pressure south of Cherwon on the
Western front.
Dulles, Ridgway Confer
In Tokyo, John Foster Dulles,
special U. S. ambassador, conferred
with the new supreme commander,
Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway for
four hours. They reportedly talked
about the progress of a peace treaty
for Japan which MacArthur has
urged at the earliest possible mo
ment.
The latest North Korean message
calling for a Big Five peace con
ference — with Red China repre
sented — was expected to get little
support in the United Nations. The
North Koreans in their message
said the Korean war could be set
tled only in accord with the decis
ions of the first World Peace Coun
cil, a Communist-sponsored meeting
in the Soviet sector of Berlin last
February.
WELL WISHERS AT AIRPORT
HONOLULU, April 17 —<PV— Gen
eral MacArthur left for San Fran
cisco and a momentous welcome
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