STATEMENT
ON FORMOSA
IS RESENTED
(Continued Irom Page 15
line—including Formosa—but “lose
it and war is inevitable.”
He said also that President Tru
man's June 27 order for the Am
erican Seventh Fleet to prevent the
Chinese Communists from invading
Formosa, the last stronghold of the
Chinese Nationalist forces did this:
“Swept aside in one great mon
umental stroke all of the hypocrisy
and the sophistry which has con
fused and deluded so many people
distant from the actual scene.”
The statement was to be read to
the VFW's encampment at today's
session.
Message Withdrawn
But yesterday, MacArthur sent
the VFW a message withdrawing
the statement. He said he regret
ted to inform the veterans group
that he had been “directed” to
withdraw it.
Since President Truman alone
could have given MacArthur such
orders, it was pretty plain all along
that the directive had come from
the White House.
Ross confirmed that today.
If the hope was to keep Mac
Arthurs statement Irom becoming
public knowledge it was a lost hope.
Text Distributed
The text of the statement had
already been distributed widely to
newspapers and magazines.
One magazine—the U. S. News j
and World Report—had already:
sent to the presses an issue con
taining the text. The magazine
said it had received permission
from the VFW to go ahead with
this procedure.
Under the circumstances, a great
many newspapers published the
text today.
One was the Chicago Tribune
which said it had twice telephoned
MacArthur’s headquarters in Tokyo1
before reaching its decision to print
it.
Print the News
In the first call, the newspaper
said, it informed MacArthur’s
spokesman that the U. S. News
and World Report had printed the
text in its issue placed in the mails
Saturday. It was due to go on
sale at newsstands tomorrow.
The spokesman asked that the
Tribune call again later.
On the second call, the Tribune
1 related, the spokesman said he was
in no position to comment on pub
lication but added: “When a story
has been published and circulated,
it seems to me that newspapers
would pursue the usual practice of
printing the news.”
FORMOSA MESSAGE
OF MacARTHUR IN
CONG, RECORD NOW
WASHINGTON. Aug. 28—UV-Re
publicans put into the Congres
sional Record today the text of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur’s statement on
Formosa and sharply criticized Pre
sident Truman for directing that the
General withdraw it.
Republican Leader Martin (Mass)
told the House it was "unfortunate'’
that the President sought to “sup
press” the statement after MacArth
ur sent it to the Chicago encamp
ment of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Martin said Mr. Truman’s action
was "another exhibit of a bankrupt
leadership."
"It is to be taken by the Ameri
can people as another flagrant ex
ample of the incredible bungling
by the Administration over the past
five years, bungling which delivered
Manchuria and most of China to
the Communists and which culmin
ated in the Korean conflict,” he said
"It is simply another chapter in
a long series of blunders whereby
sound military advice was supressed
and political decisions, in keeping
with the policy of appeasing the
Soviet Union, were superimposed
for political reasons.”
CIVIL DEFENSE IS
MEETING TONIGHT,
COUNCIUHAMBER
There will be an important meet
ing of the Juneau Council for Civil
Defense tonight at 7:45 at the City
Council chambers. R. E. Robertson,
chairman, will preside.
Following are area captains who
are urged to be present:
Joseph A. McLean, Curtis Shat
tuck, Leslie Geiger, George Danner
Jr., Stanley Grummett, Earle Hunt
er, John Hermle, James Madsen,
C. C. Bradford, M. L. MacSpadden,
Jake Cropley, K. G. Merritt, Walter
G.' Heisel, Trevor Davis, George
Cleveland, Henry Harmon, Henry
Legge, Felix Toner, A1 Zeuger Sr., Ed
Peyton, William Hughes, Robert
Cowling, hod Darnell, John Ken
nedy. O. F. Benecke, Henry Green,
Vern Lee, Howard Simmons, Albert
Hammer, Cleo Commers, John Mur
phy. Glenn Oakes, and Robert Ak
er vick.
Sidewalk Sorrow
‘/i ' . i
Various emotions are reflected in this group watching a battalion of Marines marching along Fifth
Avenue in New York, on way to training camp and war. Ifl Wirephoto.
PIRATES REPORTED
BUYING HURLER OF
SEATTLE RAINIERS
SEATTLE, Aug. 28 — UP — The
! Times said today in a story from
Portland, Ore., that the Pittsburgh
Pirates were about to buy Jim Wil
son, ace flinger of the Pacific
Coast League's Seattle Rainiers.
Wilson has won 21 games to lead
the league in victories.
The story said Roy Hamey, gen
I eral manager of the National
league Pirates, would confer this
week in Sacramento with Rainier
' manager
eral manager Earl Sheely on the
deal. A i A it
NOYES PARTY PRAISES
TAKU LODGE OUTING;
COZY IN WET WEATHER
Col. and Mrs. John R. Noyes and
Jiirs. Noves’ sister, Mrs. Erma
Smythe, enjoyed the boat trip to
atfd ffom Taku Lodge last week,
; when fine weather blessed their
jaunt, but that's not what they are
talking about the most.
“Taku Valley is just beautiful in
the rain,” Colonel Noyes commented
today. “Of course, we went there
to rest, so enjoyed it thoroughly,
but the fishermen were active, and
they did all right, too. The lodge
is cozy, and the hospitality seemed
warmer, if possible."
On the return trip aboard the
Redwing with Royal O'Reilly, the
party was able to stop at Hole-in
the-Wall and Taku Glaciers.
Colonel Noyes is Alaska Road
Commissioner.
MAROONEDFISHERIES
EMPLOYEES RESCUED
Fortune favored two summer em
ployees of the U. S. Fish and Wild
j life Service who were storm-trapped
on a fishtrap Friday,
i Don Frankhauser of Virginia and
Bill Baker, a Washington State
' chap, were making biological studies
! of fish and at False Point Pybus on
the southeast coast of Admiralty Is
| land, when they were marooned by
| a wind storm.
Fishery Biologist Gomer Hilsinger
. contacted him by airplane Saturday
but was unable to land, due to rough
weather. The men were picked up
‘ later by the FWS vessel No. 6.
Irish potatoes should be stored
’ in a cool, dry, well ventilated place.
PARMENTERS RETURN
FROM 3-MONTH TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. John (Ilah) Par
menter returned yesterday from
what they term "the perfect vaca
tion"—a three-month tour of the
United States.
However, several things did not
go according to plan. In Billings,
Mont., on the return trip, Mr.
Parmenter had a recurrence of an
old leg injury and had to have an
operation. With his wife driving
the rest of the way, he got along
fine, but it will be a month be
fore he can go back to work.
Mrs. Parmenter, owner of the
Baranof Beauty Salon, will be back
in her shop Wednesday, enthus
iastic about all the new ideas and
techniques she picked up on the;
way. In Hollywood, she took in
tensive work for several days in
the House of Westmore, with her
old friend Percy Westmore, and
she had speciaj training in the
new glamorous “silver blonde"
effect with a New York hair stylist,
D'Amico.
The Parmenters made one change
in their long-planned itinerary—
they skipped New Orleans and
Florida because of the heat.
The couple, with Mrs. Parmen
ter's niece, Miss Patsy Goforth, left
Juneau May 26, drove down the
Pacific Coast and into Mexico, then
east via Arizona and New Mexico
to Washington, D. C. There they
had lunch in the White House and
enjoyed visiting the Senate and
seeing the sights of the capitol and
Mount Vernon. They also visited
Alaska Boy Scouts at the jamboree
at Valley Forge.
After an exciting stay in New
York City, the Juneauites drove to
Maine and Quebec, Toronto, Ni
agara Falls, Illinois before spend
ing a week at Banff and Lake
Louise enroute home.
They visited relatives in Okla
homa and Illinois, and enjoyed
seeing former Alaska friends.
Mrs. Parmenter said the Alaska
Highway was in fine condition, all
the way from Dawson Creek.
Miss Goforth remained in Calif
ornia, where she will attend school
this winter.
SECOND DAUGHTER BORN
IN* BURKE RILEY FAMILY
Mr. and Mrs. Burke Riley be
came the parents of a second
daughter at 12:30 a.m. today at
St. Ann’s Hospital.
The baby, who weighed seven
pounds, twelve ounces, will be
christened Margen Burke. She
joins a 2'4-year-old sister, Robin.
The girls’ grandparents live In
Yakima, Wash.
Riley is on the staff of the Gov
ernor of Alaska.
Chiropractic Health Clinic
Dr. John M. Montgomery Dr. Geo. M. Caldwell
Main and Front Streets Phone 477
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Chinese Commies
Making Claims of
Bombing Villages
(By Associated Press)
The Chinese Communists are
making the claim that three of
their villages in Manchuria have;
been strafed by our planes, caus- j
ing deaths among the civilians. This I
may be an attempt to justify future '
action by the Chinese Communists. (
But as for the claim—it is denied
flatly by an Air Force spokesman
in Tokyo.
The Government of Nationalist
China says 270.000 Chinese Red
Troops are standing by for orders
to fight on the side of the Commun-'
ists in Korea. The Chinese Com
munists are said to have concentrat- 1
ed eight armies on the Manchurian
frontier and in North Korea proper.
WALTER WELKE TO WED j
FORMER MUSIC STUDENT
Juneau friends will be interested
| to learn of the forthcoming mar- ;
I riage of Miss Rachel Swarner to Mr.
' Walter C. Welke, who was adjudi- i
I cator for the Southeast Alaska, J
School Music Festival here the first ;
week in May.
The wedding is planned for next
Sunday in the University Lutheran
Church.
Mr. Welke, who has been on the J
University Washington faculty for
21 years, is an associate professor j
in the School of Music, and is espec
ially noted for the U of W Concert i
Band which he directs.
The couple met while Miss Swar
ner was attending the University, j
from which she was graduated in
1946. She was student conductor of
the band while in school, and toured
with a ballet company orchestra as
clarinetist in 1945-46. The bride
elect teaches clarinet and piano, and j
is associate conductor of the Seattle
Women’s Symphony Orchestra.
This will be Mr. Welke’s second
marriage.
The 13-day-old strike against the
Packard Motor Car Company has
been settled. The union says the
settlement is a remarkably good one
and a five-year affair, annual rais
es, and a cost-of-living raise right
now. Eight thousand Packard work
ers probably will be back on the job
on Wednesday.
Most Wanted
Criminal” Now|
Under Arrest
PIERkis. o. u„ Aug. 28—(/PI—John
O. Pinson, 31, Joplin, Mo., one of the
"ten most wanted criminals” in the
[ co mtry, was arrested in the State
! Ci pitol today and made a futile
| break for freedom after throwing
: water in an officer’s face.
Pinson, convicted slayer of a Hood
River, Ore., police officer and who
officers said operated under a dozen
aliases, was arrested when he tried
to register the title to a 1942 Ford
car in the statehouse motor vehicle
division.
FBI files also said Pinson, who
escaped after his conviction in Ore
gon, also was wanted for burglary
in Twin Falls, Ida.
Vehicle registration employees
spotted the title as one on which
the FBI had issued a "stop” order.
He informed Special Agents of the
Attorney General’s law enforcement
division and Supt. J. W. Goetz of
the State Motor Patrol. His arrest
followed.
Pinson was unarmed when cap
tured. However, officers inspected
;he car he was driving and found
a shotgun, rifle, two pistols, a pack
age of dynamite, a set of burglar
tools and a gas mask.
3 Missing,
Plane Trip
VANCOUVER, B. C.. Aug. 28—•<*!
—A Vancouver couple and their
two-year-old child were missing to
day on a 180-mile flight from
Grande Prairie, Alta.,- to Prince
George, in northern British Colum
bia.
Their rented light plane left
Grande Prairie Sunday morning.
Two hours is regarded as average
time for the trip.
The family was identified as J. T.
iTommy) Wallwork, 31, his wife,
Mariette, and their son, Jimmy.
A1 Michaud, owner of Vancouver
U-Fly Ltd., said he believed the
firm's plane had landed safely some
where along the route, but was un
able to report because of communi
cations difficulties.
: • ,
Patricia Carroll
Honors Visitor
Miss Patricia Carroll was a lunch
eon hostess Saturday in the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
iPat! Carroll, honoring Miss Joyce
Reiwe of Auburn, Wash.
Canasta was the afternoon diver
sion, the honors going to Miss Ann
Henning. Other luncheon guests
were Misses Shirley Casperson, Paula
Cook. Donna Wood, Aileen Kron
quist, Ruth Posey. Rosemary Theile,
Joan Osborne, Ann Parsons, Be
linda Clark, Sally Crooks and Mary
Whitaker.
Miss Riewe went to Seattle by Pan
American yesterday, after staying
three days with the Carrolls. She
came here after a visit in Skagway.
TODAY’S LANDINGS
Salmon landings today for the i
Engstrom Brothers were: the Aurora |
A1 Schramen, 2,000 pounds: Ford, j
Ole Brensdal, 1,800 pounds; Mabel i
K., Lester Weiss, 1.000 pounds; El- j
liott. Bill Helin, 1,000 pounds; Pinta,
Walter Maki, 1.000 pounds while J.!
[ V. Hickey brought in 3,000 pounds
| by truck from Auk Bay.
| Landing for the Alaska Coast
Fisheries were the Thelma, Bernt
Alstead, 1,200 pounds; Ace, Doug
Wahto, 700 pounds and the Hix,
Gordon Wahto, 700 pounds.
RELEASE 929
NAMES, WAR!
CASUALTIES
I
_ I
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 — Utl — |
The Defense Department released I
a list of 929 casualties of the Kor- I
ean fighting—the longest ot the!
war—for today's newspapers.
A spokesman said the list re'pre- j
sented a “backlog" because casual,- :
ties are not publicly announced I
until next of kin have been notified.
The department has not recently j
issued any casualty totals, saying!
that military security is involved.
Among the wounded was William 1
F. Cochell, son of Mis. Winfred E. j
Cochell, Nenana, Alaska.
Lt. Melferd Kostoff, Seattle, Was \
listed among the killed in action. -
Kostoff left Seattle only a month
ago yesterday for Japan. His wife, i
Colleen, joined her parents in:
Fairbanks the day her husband i
left for the Far East.
GENERAL KEPNER !
TO BE AT LEGION I
CONVENTION HERE
Lieutenant General W. E. Kepner-, |
Commander-in-Chief,' the Alaskan
Command, this vyeekend will pay
his first visit to Juneau since taking
over the command of all U. S. Arm
ed Forces in Alaska from Lieuten- i
ant General Nathan F. Twining.
Kepner, one of the Armed Forces :
pioneer airmen, will be a principal
speaker at the opening session of
the American Legion’s Annual De
partment of Alaska convention
which opens in Juneau this Satur
day.
He will be accompanied by a pub
lic information officer, Major Bryan,
two other officers and two enlisted
men who will operate his plane. The
party will overnight Saturday at the
Baranof Hotel.
Kepner told Legion Department
Commander Perry S. McLain that
he will attend the convention un
less last minute military exigencies
prevent his coming,
Juneau Post No. 4 of the Ameri
can Legion is host for the conven
tion. Convention Chairman is Chest- \
er E. Zenger and Post Commander
is Robert N. Druxman.
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