THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
9 "ALL THE HEWS ALL THE TIME* \ __
VOL. LXXVII., NO. 11.791 JUNEAU. ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
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UN Forces Pull Back From Red Offensive
7 SENTENCED,
NAZIS LOSE
CASE APPEAL
WASHINGTON, April 23 —I#)—
The seven Nazis sentenced to deatt"
in Germany for concentration camp
atrocities lost their bid today for 8
Supreme Court hearing.
The high tribunal refusal to re
view their case presumably clear:
the way for military authorities ti
carry out the executions.
The seven Nazis include former
SS (Elite Guard) officers and con
centration camp officials, accused
of murdering thousands of civilians
during World War II. They are the
last Nazis under death sentences.
The court's decision not to gram
the men a hearing was reached bj
a vote of 6 to 2. Justices Black and
Douglas favored reviewing the case
Justice Jackson took no part ir
consideration of the appeal. Jack
son at one time served as chief U
S. presecutor at the trial of top
Nazi leaders at Nuernberg, Ger
many.
The seven originally were ordered
to go to the gallows last February
14, at the United States prison at
Landsberg, Germany.
In other actions today the high
tribunal:
1. Ruled 8 to 1 that states with
compulsory automobile insurance
laws can force insurance companies
to issue policies to “bad risk’ motor
ists who otherwise would be in
eligible. The case involved the Cali
fornia State Automobile Association
Inter-Insurance Bureau which had
refused to insure persons not mem
bers of the association.
2. Decided unanimously that GI
insurance may be paid to a brother
by adoption of the policy holder.
3. Held unanimously that a toy
pig patented by a Chicagoan as a
device to encourage junior to eat his
cereal was not really an invention
and that another firm could not
have infringed the patent by putting
out a similar device in the form of
a toy puppy.
The seven doomed Nazis include
former SS Generals Otto Ohlendorf
and Oswald Pohl. Ohlendorf was
convicted as head man of an ex
termination group in Russia which
killed 90,000 persons. Pohl at one
time was in charge of all German
concentration camps.
NEW STAFV MEMBER
FOR O. P. S. OFFICE
Recent addition to the O. P. S.
staff here is William J. Winn of
Seattle who arrived here Saturday.
Winn, who will be a staff economist
for O.P.S., recently resigned his
position with the Veterans of For
eign Wars office in Seatle.
Winn is not new to Alaska, hav
ing spent considerable time here
during the war with the ACS. His
wife and two children will come to
Juneau in about a month.
ENGINEER HERE
R. C. Caldwell, engineer with
Thomas B. Bourne Association of
Alaska at Anchorage, is in Juneau
for a few days on business. He is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. or Bell Syndicate, Inc..
WASHINGTON.—The last time
I talked to Senator Vandenberg
was in December, shortly after the
tragic December defeat in Korea.
Following this, c-ertain GOP Sena
tors had gone hog-wild against the
bipartisan foreign policy, and I
phoned Vandenberg in Grand Rap
ids to see if he had any ideas about
getting that policy back on an even
keel.
A couple of friends were then
trying to get Truman and Taft to
gether for a personal, face-to-face
talk, minus publicity, in order to
pull our harassed and sadly disuni
ted foreign policy off the partisan
rocks.
Telling Senator Vandenberg
about this, I asked if he couldn’t
help. Perhaps a statement from
him, or a phone call to senate lead
ers would start the ball rolling.
But Vandenberg was skeptical.
“The boys have the bit in their
t^eth,” he said, "and I doubt if
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MacArfhur
To Chicago
On Thursday
CHICAGO, April 23 —(JP)— Gen
eral MacArthur is coming to Chicag<
Thursday and the nation's second
largest city is all set for a super
welcome.
Soldier Field, the lake front open
air arena, was reserved yesterday
for a mass civic recoption Thursday
night.
But the greeting will get under
way in high style the moment th<
general’s plane, "The Bataan,'
touches ground about noon at Mid
way Airport. An official receptior
committee of 200 prominent citizens
including retired Generals Charle
G. Dawes and Robert E. Wood, will
be on hand.
Before heading for the downtowi.
loop area and a formal parade, the
general will be given military hon
ors, including a 17-gun artillery
salute by Fifth Army artillerymen,
at the airport.
A crushing crowd of 3,000,000 —
about 75 per cent of Chicago’s pop
ulation — is expected to take part
in the mammoth celebration.
REASON FOR DISMISSAL
NOT KNOWN BY GENERAL
NEW YORK, April 23 -MV- Gen
eral Douglas MacArthur’s personal
adviser said today that “t-o this day,
General MacArthur never has been
informed as to the reasons for his
summary dismissal and he hasn’t
the faintest idea why the action was
taken.”
The Far East commander first
learned that he had been stripped
of his commands from his wife, who
heard the news In a radio broadcast,
Maj. Oen. Courtney Whitney said
in an interview.
She, in turn, informed her hus
band of President Truman’s action
20 minutes before the arrival of of
ficial word from Washington, Whit
ney said.
The general has received a cable
from Syngman Rhee, president of
the Republic of Korea, lauding the
deposed Far East commander for
his “magnificent" address before
Congress.
Whitney released the text of the
cablegram.
“The government and the people
of the Republic of Korea,” it read,
“join me in extending our spon
taneous and wholehearted congrat
ulations to you on your magnificent
address delivered before the joint
session of Congress . . . . ”
MacArthur, meanwhile, remained
in seclusion in his hotel suite here
resting after the most tumultous
welcome New York City ever paid
a returning hero. His wife and son,
Arthur, 13, are going to the circus
this afternoon.
NATIONAL PARK
AND FOREST SERV.
MAKE SURVEY TRIP
Beginning today, six weeks inves
tigation of resources of Southeast
Alaska is being carried on by the
National Park Service in coopera
tion with the U. S. Forest Service.
A preliminary meeting was held
in Ketchikan the last of last week
with Assistant Regional Forester
Charles Burdick, Thomas J. Wil
liams, assistant superintendent,
Olympic Park, Dr. Adolph Murie,
biologist and Louis Caywood, arche
ologist and historian, the latter
three are of the National Park Ser
vice, conferring.
Williams heads the National Park
group and Knox Marshall will rep
resent the Forest Service on the
survey.
The trip is being made aboard
the Forest Service vessel Forester.
BACHELDER HERE
T. S. Bachelder, Fairbanks con
tractor, arrived here Sunday on
PAA from Seattle and is stopping
at the Baranof Hotel.
STEAMERMOVEMENTS
Baranof from Seattle scheduled
to arrive at 5 o’clock Tuesday morn
ing.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Wednesday, April
25.
Denali scheduled to sail from |
Seattle Friday.
DEMOCRAT
IS NAMED
TO SENATE
Michigan Governor Ap
points Newspaperman
Successor Vanderberg
LANSING. Mich.. April 23 —t/fi— '
Blair Moody. Washington corre
spondent for the Detroit News,
was named today by Governor Men
nen Williams as U. S. Senator from
Michigan succeeding the late Ar
thur H. Vandenberg.
The 49-year-old Moody has been
assigned to the News Washington
Bureau since 1933. During World
War II, he served as war corre
spond for the News and the North
American Newspaper Alliance.
“Senator Moody is a Democrat,”
Williams said in announcing the ap
pointment. Moody's political affilia
tion was not generally known be
fore, but an associate on the Detroit
News described him Its:: “A New I
Dealer from the start.”
Moody's appointment gives the
Democrats a four-vite margin in
the Senate. Vandenberg was a Re
publican.
"Blair Moody most completely
meets the needs of Michigan for
Senate representation and needs of
the nation for capable, vigorous and
experienced leadership,” Williams
said.
Moody’s interim appointment is
until the end of the current term,
ending in January, 1953.
He is Michigan’s first Democratic
senator since Prentiss W. Brown
lost out to Republican Homer Fer
guson in 1942.
Moody’s experience as a news
paperman has been world-wide.
CLIMAX TEST
A-BOMB SOON
IN PACIFIC
HONK KONG, April 23 —'/P>—
Senator Magnuson (D-Wash) said
today the climax of the United
States’ nuclear fission tests in mid
Pacific is scheduled "some time
within the next week or so.”
He declined to say whether a new
type atom bomb is being tried, but
added:
"It has to do with nuclear fis
sion.”
Magnuson said the test would
climax a series the Atomic Energy
i Commission has been conducting
"for the past 40 days.”
The experiments are being con
ducted at the U. S. atomic proving
ground at Eniwetok in the Marshall
Islands. The AEC has reported tests
were scheduled there this spring,
but has kept dates and details
secret.
Magnuson said he would leave in
three or four days for Kwajalein,
some 200 miles from Eniwetok, en
route to witness the tests.
Magnuson arrived today “to in
vestigate the feasibility of broaden
ing the U. S. immigration legisla
tion to permit entry of more dis
placed persons from the Far East.”
FROM PETERSBURG
Paul Vahl of Petersburg is stop
ping at the Baranof hotel.
• •
• WEATHER REPORT • ■
• Temperature for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o’clock this morning • |
• In Juneau — Maximum, • j
• 52; minimum, 33. • ;
• At Airport — Maximum, • j
• 55: minimum, 28. • j
• FORECAST •
• Increasing cloudiness to- •
• night with lowest near 36 •
• degrees. Mostly cloudy with •
• intermittent light rain Tues- •
• day. Highest temperature •
• Tuesday near 48 degrees. •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 m.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 1 — 38.39 inches. • .
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1
DULLES HAS
HIS DOUBTS
ABOUT WAR
Doesn't Believe Russia
Wants to Fight Now-Of
ficial Enroute to U. S.
TOKYO, April 23 —IJPV— John
Foster Dulles said today there is
some risk of general war but he
doubts the rulers of Russia want
war now.
The special ambassador told the
United Nations Association of Japan
Soviet leaders are spreading fear of
direct aggression,and armed attack
“to frighten the free peoples into a
condition which will make thertJ
vulnerable to conquest from within."
Dulles came here to assure Jap
anese that General MacArthur’s
■ dismissal would have no effect on
j plans for an early Japanese peace
i treaty.
i He left Tokyo by plane at 6 p.m.,
; for Washyigton to report to Presi
j dent Truman. He is due at Anchor
i age about 3 p.m., Anchorage time
! today.
| Dulles told the Japanese UN As
j sociation that the United States will
] not abandon Asia but will stand
j firmly against aggression in this
part of the world.
Program Outlined
He pointed out:
1. The U. S. Far Eastern Air
Forces have been expanded. Two in
fantry divisions are to be stationed
in Japan.
2. The U. S. has offered Japan
a bilateral security arrangement
and is prepared to conclude a mu
tual defense arrangement with Aus
tralia and New Zealand.
3. President Truman has reiter
ated that armed attack on the Phili
pines would be regarded by the U.
S. as “dangerous to its own peace
and safety.”
4. American strategic Air Forces
could be hurled from bases in the
j U. S. to the aid of any country in
I the world.
Dulles was accompanied by his
j wife, Assistant Secretary of the
Army Earl Johnson, Robart Searey
of the State Department, and Col
C. Stanton Babcock, Army depart
ment member of the Dulles mission.
The plane, a U. S. Government
Constellation, will fly from Anch
orage to Washington by way of
Seattle or Minneapolis.
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CRISIS IN
BRITAIN'S
SOC. GOVT.
_ i
LONDON, April 23 —(/PI— The j
crisis in Britain’s Socialist govern- j
ment was reported deepening today.
Informed sources said a second cab
inet member has quit in protest
against the trimming of free med
ical services in favor of t*ie re
armament drive.
These sources said the cabinet’s
I youngest member, 35-year-old Har
old Wilson, had handed in his res
ignation as president of the Board
of Trade.
Such a move would further rock
Prime Minister Attlee’s unsteady
Labor government, already reeling
under the impact of fiery Aneurin
Bevan’s resignation yesterday from
the post of Labor Minister.
There were unconfirmed reports
j that one or two junior ministers
I were planning to follow Bevan and
j Wilson.
Labor party circles believed the
I revolt might result in the govern
] ment’s defeat in the budget debates
I this week, forcing a general election
! soon.
VUILLE TO SEATTLE
Gene Vuille, president of Juneau
Shrine Club, plans to leave Friday
! for Seattle to attend a Shrine Club
! Presidents conference at Nile Tem
i pie in Seattle. The conference in
! eludes representatives from Alaska,
Japan, and part of Washington,
j Gene expects to return Sunday.
—
G. F. BERT HERE
G. P. Burt, representative of the
! Colgate Palmolive Peet Co., Seattle,
\ is staying at the Baranof Hotel.
I
The Blizzard Hits Mac
A blizzard of ticker ticker tape and paper virtually blots out the scene on lower Broadway, New York,
as the city goes all out in welcome to Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The general (circled) waves to the
cheering throng which jammed sidewalks. (/P) Wirephoto.
Quake Shakes
Hawaiian isle
HONOLULU, April 23 — Wl— A
strong earthquake on the big island
ol Hawaii Sunday prompted specu
lation today that the Kilauea vol
cano may rumble into eruption after
16 years of silence.
A two-minute quake shook the is
land at 2:53 p.m. Windows in down
town Hilo, the island's largest city,
were shattered but no other damage
or casualties were reported.
Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, volcano
logist, said ‘‘It l6ol:.> like the lava,
is moving again at Kilauea. A
sharp quake of this nature usually
precedes volcanic activity.”
Kilauea, inactive for 16 years, had
been erupting on an average of
once every 11 years.
“It’s five years overdue now,”
Jaggar said.
Food Riots,
Troops Out
CALCUTTA, India, April 23 — {/ft—
Food riots in the northeastern part
of famine-threatened India resulted
in six deaths and injuries to scores
of persons over the weekend.
A tense situation still prevailed
in the troop-patrolled city of Cooch
Behar. capital of the former prince
ly ‘state of the same name and
scene of the disorders.
The six were killed when police
opened fire on 5,000 hunger march
ers Saturday after they ignored an
order to disperse. Twenty-four po
licemen and 32 demonstrators were
injured.
ELLIS JO CORDOVA
Robert Ellis, wellknown Ketchikan
airlines operator, flew to Juneau
Saturday from Annette Island via
Pan American and went on to Cor
dova via Pacific Northern Airlines
Sunday on business.
Ellis is temporary president of
the Alaska Visitors Association.
\
Russians
Don't Pray,
Says One
BALTIMORE, April 23 —(/PI—Sen
ator Wiley (R-Wis) based his speech
here last night on a remark Rus
sian Foreign Minister Andrei Y.
Vishinsky made to him four years
ago.
Wiley recalled that when he was
introduced to Vishinsky, he told the
Russian: “I pray every night that
the United States, Russia and Great
Britain . . . will have a sincere
desire for peace.”
Vishinsky’s reply: "I don’t pray.”
And that’s what’s wrong with thi
world today, the senator observed
A member of the Senate Crime In
vestigating Committee, Wiley spoke
on religion at the University Baptist
church in Baltimore.
CANNERY DAMAGE
SUIT IS CONTINUED
UNTIL JDECEMBER
A suit in U. S. District Court
brought by the Naket Packing Cor
poration, the American Can Com
pany, Northern Electric Co., and
38 insurance companies against the
U. S. Government, which was
scheduled to start May 7, 1951, has
been continued over until December
3, 1951, according to Patrick J.
Gilmore, U. S. District Attorney,
who represents the government,
Tlie plaintiffs are asking approx
imately half a million dollars for
alleged^ damages and loss resulting
from a fire which destroyed the
Union Bay cannery last year.
DRAWS $80 SPEEDING FINE
William Kirkevold was fined $80
in City Magistrate’s Court today on
a charge of speeding 60 miles an
hour through the Waynor Tract at
5:30 Sunday morning.
SITKA VISITOR
Kenneth Albright of Sitka is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
H F. Rosier of Seattle is reg
istered at the Baranof Hotel.
"Cotton Tom"
Passes Away
LAFAYETTE, Ala., April 23 —(A>)—
J. Thomas “Cotton Tom” Heflin,
former U. S, senator and one of
Alabama's most stormy political fig
ures, died at his home here yester
day. He was 82.
The former senator and congress
man, whose political career ended
in 1930 after his break with the
Democratic party two years earlier
over the presidential nomination of
A1 Smith, had been in declining
health for several years.
A fiery figure, noted orator, and
unrelenting champion of white su
premacy, Heflin was outspoken in
his criticism of “the wolves of Wall
Street,” Tammany Hall, the Ro
man Catholic hierarchy and the
liquor interests."
rHRKMISSiNG
ON PLANE FLIGHT
McGRATH, ANCH.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 23—
OP)—The Civil Aeronautics Author
ity reported today that a Bethel
school teacher and two young chil
dren were missing in a light plane
on a flight from McGrath to Anch
orage.
The CAA said the plane, piloted
by the teacher, took off from Mc
Grath yesterday morning and was
due here three hours later. Aboard
were a 15-year-old boy pupil and
the teacher’s 6-year-old daughter.
Only the pilot’s last name — Gann—
was'known here.
A Stimson Voyager of the same
description as Gann’s craft was said
to have been seen circling Farewell,
about 100 miles from McGrath, two
hours after the trio's takeoff.
McGrath is in Interior Alaska on
the Kuskokwim river about 300
miles northwest of Anchorage.
FROM SEATTLE
Bill Hingston of the Washington
Fish and Oyster Co., Seattle, is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
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100-MILE
FRONT IS
ATTACKED
Commies Launch One At
tack Successfully-Stop
ped Cold Elsewhere
By Associated Press
United Nations troops pulled back
as much as 12 miles under the Im
pact of a major Red offensive which
raged along 100 miles of the Korean
front today.
In other sectors the Allies stopped
the Reds cold. Where the Allies
withdrew it was in orderly fashion.
The Communists, with nearly 700,
000 men facing the front, launched
their attack at 7:30 Sunday night
behind their heaviest artillery bar
rage of the war. Their assault
cased in daylight Monday, but was
renewed with fresh vigor Monday
night.
Maybe Spring Push
One intelligence officer called the
attack the Reds’ "major effort." But
another spokesman said Monday it’s
still too early to tell if it is the
Reds’ long-expected big spring push.
Close censorship delayed news of
the offensive 14% hours. Then it
permitted only a fragmentary pic
ture of the battle.
Red’s 15-Mile Front
The Reds forced a crossing of
the Imjin river along a 15 mile
front in the west. They were
checked by concentrated UN air
and artillery fire. This crossing is
25 miles northwest to 30 miles north
of Seoul, shell-shattered South Kor
ean capital.
UN troops pulled bacK soucn or
the Hantan river, in the adjoining
sector of the east. They blew their
bridges behind them.
Strewn With Bodies
The Western front was strewn
with bodies of thousands of Chinese,
cut down by artillery and air bom
bardment.
All along the Central front Al
lied troops "rolled with the punch.”
They fought from new positions
Monday night over a battlefield
garishly lighted by giant search
lights, #flood lights and flares
dropped from planes.
Straightening Line
| (UN withdrawals below the Han
, tan and on the Central front ap
' parently were to straighten the Al
| lied line. It bulged northward at this
I point. Heaviest concentrations of
; Red troops were in this area).
Allied forces stood firm on the
i East Central front against Red as
j saults through Sunday night and
; Monday morning. Then action
' quieted.
Reds Drive Wedges
On the extreme right the Reds
drove wedges into the defense line
1 north of Inje.
Attacking Reds took terrific pun
i ishment from UN air and artillery,
both blasting away around the clock.
Airmen estimated they killed 1,800
! Reds Monday, their biggest toll in
three and a half months.
Big Air Battle
In far Northwest Korea 12 U. S.
’ Sabre jets shot down four Russian
I made MIG Jets and damaged an
| other four. It was the largest air
1 battle in 10 days. And it raised to
I 159 the number of MIG Jets knock
i ed out since early November.
Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet.
I commander of the U. S. Eighth
Army, had expressed confidence
; before the Red assault that his men
: could stop any Red counterblow. He
added: “If the enemy knew what I
know, he would go back to China
right now.”
Despite withdrawals, the UN
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| STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, April 23 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
■ stock today is 2 >i, American Can
' 110%, American Tel. and Tel. 154%.
Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft
103, General Electric 55%, General
Motors 53%, Ooodyear 77, Kenne
j cott 74%, Libby McNeill and Libby
9, Northern Pacific 38%, Standard
Oil of California 45%, Twentieth
Century Fox 20%. U. S. Steel 44%,
Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange
94..
Sales today were 1,160.000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 255.12, rails 82.65, utili
^ ties 42,38.