THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,836
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JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNK 15. 1951
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WOULD ADMIT
(HINA TO UN
Johnson Testifies Military
Worried, China's Vote
on Security Council
WASHINGTON, June 15 —JPl—
Louis Johnson testified today that
as secretary of defense he feared
the United ^States was moving to
ward recognition of Red China.
Johnson told the Senate’s MacAr
thur inquiry that he “never knew of
any decision by the State Depart
ment, despite the British talk and
the British recognition, for us to
recognize,1’ then he added:
"But because of the things that
were said in those days, I feared
that we would not oppose their be
coming a member of the United Na
tions, and then we would have to
recognize them.
“We of the military particularly
worried about it because it meant
another vote on the United Nation
Security Council antagonistic to the
fundamental interests of the United
States and for Communism.”
Differed with Acheson
Johnson was dismissed from the
defense post last September. His
exit from President Truman’s cab
inet is widely reported to have re
sulted in part from his differences
with Secretary of State Acheson.
Johnson also told the senators:
1. Gen. MacArthur took responsi
bility and carried out the Inchon
landing in Korea despite misgivings
by the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
He said the JCS gave MacArthur a
chance to call it off a week before
it was launched.
The “White raper
2. He questioned the “accuracy”
of an early draft of the State De
partment’s 1949 “white paper” on
China. This document was a bulky
account of developments in China
and contained a good deal of mater
ial highly critical of Chiang Kai
Shek’s Nationalist government.John
son said some of the material in the
Defense Department’s files conflict
ed with things in the proposed draft.
And before publication of the final
draft. Johnson said he raised “the
question of the political advisabil
ity of the document.”
Calls Dor ament False
3. He regards as a “false docu
ment” the StaV Department memo
randum of Deu. 23, 1949 which fore
cast the fall of: Nationalist-held For
mosa to the Capmuntsts and in
structed employes to discount the
strategic vafue of the island.
4. He £V*ed the Joint Chiefs of
Staff to rer/iew the question of send
ing a m/titary inquiry mission tc
Formosa in 1949 after a decision
first in f/ivor of it, and later against
it. Johnson said he thought the de
cision against sending the mission
"was following political considera
tions and pot the military security
of the United States.”
Can Whip Russia
Johnson also told senators he if
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TheWashingiou
Merry-Go-Round
‘ By, DREW PEARSON
(Coprrlf&i. 1051, By Bell Syndicate, Inc.
T^ASHINGTON. — Some high
ranking Generals seem to have the
idea that the taxpayers’ money is
lying around for the sole purpose
of being wasted.
The other day Brig. Gen. Emil C.
Kiel, Commander of the American
air forces in the Caribbean, flew
to Quito, Ecuador, on a courfesj
visit. He took with him four uni
forms with corresponding accessor,
ies, plus an extensive selection of
sports clothes.
In the Ecuadorian capital, how
ever, General Kiel was invited tc
a formal dinner given by Defenst
Minister Diaz pranados, who, like
cabinet officers lji the United State.1
is a civilian. Therefore Genera)
Kiel decided it would be impropei
for him to attend this dinner in
military dress. Instead he decider
to wear a black civilian dinnei
jacket.
So lie sent his official plane, a
converted B-17 bomber with full
crew, all the way back to Panama
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First Accident
Buzz Kavoian (above), 7-weeks-old, suffered his first accident, a
fractured left femur, when his 8-year-old cousin, Sandra DeLiddo,
tripped on a rug in their Fresno, Ca.lif., home while holding him.
Doctors say it is very unusual for an infant to suffer a fracture.
Buzz will be confined to his crib under traction for one month.
UP) Wirephoto.
Woman Would Not Give Up
Telephone for Fire Call;
Four Children Cose Lives
INFLATION
COULD MEAN
RED VICTORY
President Calls on Nation
to Fight Against Run
Away Prices
WASHINGTON, June 15 — Uf)—
Fighting for stronger economic con
trols, President Truman declared
last night that runaway inflation
could give Russia global victory
"without firing a shot.”
Administrative leaders in Con
gress hoped his plea would fire a
wave of public opinion to help them
put across the President’s program
which was still in trouble on both
sides of the capitol.
Congressional sentiment appeared
strong for continuance, with some
modifications, of the present De
fense Production Act instead of the
new and tougher law asked by the
President.
In carrying his appeal to the peo
ple by television and radio, Mr. Tru
man said:
Fight For All To Join
‘This is a fight for everyone tc
join — a fight for the very life of
this nation.we’ve got to have
a good, strong inflation-control law
on the books if we are going to get
through this emergency success
fully."
Although the present law expires
June 30, the House Banking com
mittee recessed until Monday its
closed-door consideration of the
President's proposal for a new two
year law. Chairman Spence waf
anything but optimistic about the
chances of turning out a tougher
controls measure.
Wants Tough Bill
He told a reporter today that while
he hoped for committee’s action
next week, he wouldn’t be surprised
if enough Democrats and Republi
cans teamed up to put across a
straight continuance of the present
law.
Mr. Truman said in his message
to the nation that some congres
sional leaders told him “they were
ynder a lot of pressure from the spe
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EVERETT, Wash., June 15, —(A*>— !
Four children burned to death in i
a residential fire yesterday because, j
firemen said, a woman on a party |
telephone line told neighbors who |
tried to sound an alarm: I*
“Fire? Who are you trying to I
kid?” I
Fire chief Frank Schroeder said
last nigty telephone company of
ficials confirmed that the party
line was in use at the time neigh
bors of Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Bryant
tried to call the fire department.
Beth Bryant, 2, her brother Boyd,
3, Paulann Sweeney, 5, and her sis
ter Renee, 2’i, were trapped on the
second floor of the Bryant home
and died before firemen could
reach them.
Schroeder quoted the neighbors
as saying when they tried to phone
the alarm, that the woman—whom
firemen did not identify—refused
to give up the line and told them:
"I’m paying for my phone, too."
Schroeder said the telephone
company reported the woman was
talking to a phone company em
ploye about her phone _ bill. The
employe said she heard someone
ask for the phone and then hang
up when she couldn’t get it.
NSLI Checks Are
Mailed Out to Vets
By Associated Press
More than one million checks
have been mailed for the Second
Division under National Service Life
Insurance. The Veterans Adminis
tration said a total of 8 million,
200,000 checks will be sent to com
plete payment by early next year.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperature for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o’clock this morning • ,
• In Juneau — Maximum, •
• 49; minimum, 45. •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 49; minimum, 44. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• Partly cloudy tonight and '•
• Saturday. Lowest tempera- •
• ture tonight about 44. High- •
• est Saturday near 54. •
• precipitation •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau — .29'inches; •
• Since June 1 — 4.28 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 76.47 inches. •
• At Airport — .23 inches; •
• Since June 1 — 2.71 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 44.12 inches. •
• ••••••••a*
WAGES OF
MARINERS
ADVANCED
Longshoremen Get Boost;
Walkouts are Postponed
For 24 Hours
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 15 —i/tt—
Reliable sources indicated today,
without confirmation, that Pacific
Coast longshoremen and shipowners
have agreed on a 20-cent an hour
pay raise. Five cents would be in
straight pay, and 15 cents would go
to a pension fund.
This would give the ILW union
members a pay rate of 1.97 an hour.
Meanwhile the CIO Marine Engi
neers were said to have agreed to
a contract extension.
Shipowners and CIO radio oper
ators called another conference,
hopeful of averting a coast-wide
strike already postponed for 24
hours.
The CIO American Radio Asso
ciation had called a strike for 12:01
a.m., today, demanding a $70 a
month wage boost and improved
working conditions.
The walkout was postponed at
almost the last minute.
The two factions agreed to fur
ther talks today with Federal Con
ciliator Omar Hoskins. The new
strike deadline is 12:01 a.m., to
morrow.
The 300 radiomen are the smalles
group among five maritime union;
bartering for replacement of con
tracts that expire at midnight to
night.
U.S. DEFENSE
PLANS AWAIT
FRENCH VOTE
WASHINGTON, June 15 —Iff)—
Gen. Omar Bradley said today im
portant decisions in completing the
Western European defense plans
have been held up until after the
French elections next Sunday.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff appeared at a Pentagon
news briefing to answer questions
about his recent trip to Europe for
talks with U. S., British and French
military leaders.
He also disclosed that the size
of the Western German force in the
mutual defense organization is still
a troublesome question both here
and in Europe.
He was asked about published re
ports that an Allied committee had
recommended a 10-division force for
Germany.
"That whole thing is still under
discussion,” Bradley said. "We are
going to talk about it at a meeting
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today.”
Bradley also said no final agree
ment has been reached yet on nam
ing American Admiral William
Fechteler to command the North
Atlantic pact sea forces.
SWANSON RETURNS
FROM CG TRAINING
Douglas Swanson, lieutenant in
the Coast Guard Reserve, returned
to his office in the FWS today from
two weeks in Ketchikan. He was on
training duty at CG headquarters
in the First City. /
Another Juneau mall who attend
ed was John Brant/ier, with the
local immigration off/ce, who is also
in the Coast Guard Reserve.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
;NEW YORK, Ji/ne 15 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
112, American Tel. and Tel. 154%.
Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft
47%, General Electric 55%, Gen
eral Motors 48%, Goodyear 79, Ken
necott 75%, Libby, McNeill and Lib
by 9, Northern Pacific 42%, Stand
ard Oil of California 48%, Twentieth
Century Fox 18%. U. S. Steel 41 ’
Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange
93.31%.
Sales today were 1,370,000 shares
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 254.03, rails 79.86, utili
ties 42 65.
Atomic Explosion
The general view of the 1951 atom bomb test at Eniwetok, shows an early phase of the nuclear explo
sion was released (June 13) in Washington, D.C., by the Atomic Energy Commission. The conclusion
of the mid-Paciflc tests was announced May 25. (Atomic Energy Commission Photo via UP) Wirephoto.)
ARMY ORDERS
COL. NOYES TO
.. FAR EAST DUTY
Announcement is made by the
Alaska Road Commission of the im
pending departure of Col. John R.
Noyes, commissioner of roads for
Alaska, from his present position
as head of the Alaska Road Com
mission to s a new assignment with
the Ajrmy In an important position
in the Far East. The exact nature
of Col. Noyes' new Army assign
ment was not disclosed. He will
leave Juneau on June 23 for Wash
ington, D. C.
During the past three years Col.
Noyes has headed the Alaska Road
Commission and directed the exe
cution of a program of road work
- in Alaska aggregating 875.000,000.!
This work includes the reconstruc- ■
tion and paving of the main high- |
ways with a bituminous surface; the |
construction of the new highway;
from Seward to Anchorage, now:
nearing completion; the completion ^
of the Sterling Highway on the Ke- ;
nai Peninsula; the reconstruction
of the Tok Cutoff Road connecting |
Anchorage with the Alaska High
way; the continuation of construe- j
tion upon the new road from the
Alaska Highway to Eagle, including,
its connection to Dawson; and the,
commencement of.a new road con-]
necting the Richardson Highway atj
Paxsons with Mt. McKinley National j.
Park. Much of the paving work and,
the construction of the Seward
Anchorage Road were executed!
pursuant to cooperative agreements
with the Bureau of public Roads.
Big Road Program
The big road program required a ,
considerable expansion of the force j
of the Alaska Road Commission and ;
many changes in its organization. |
Col. Noyes’ Army service in Alaska ;
dates back to 1926 when he arrived !
in Juneau as a young lieutenant to I
join the force of the Alaska Road j
Commission, then an agency of the
War Department. He served with the ,
commission from 1926 to 1928 and
.again on a second tour of Army duty
in 1931 and 1932. Later, in 1933 and
1934, he was in charge of river and
harbor improvement in the Territory
while that work was under the sup
ervision of the Seattle Engineer Dis- ,
trict.
Returns in 1946
Returning to Alaska in 1946, Col.
Noyes made a thorough examina
tion of the Alaska Railroad for the
War Department in June of that
year, and his reports on Alaska
led the way to support by the De
partment of Defense of the. Seward
Anchorage Road and indirectly of
the entire road improvement pro
gram. In 1948, he was requested by
the secretary of the interior to as
sume the new position ol commis
sioner of roads for Alaska to take
charge of the road improvement
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Mrs. Clark Gable, the former
Lady Sylvia Ashley, who Is seek
ing a divorce from her screen-star
husband, arrives in Honolulu,
aboard the George Vanderbilt
yacht Pioneer The Gables honey
mooned in Hawaii in December,
1949. UP) Wirephoto.
APPLY FOR LICENSE
Charles O. Barker, logger of So.
Prairie, Wash., and Eleanor June
Barker, of Wrangell, have applied
for a license to wed.
Ship Movements
Alaska from Seattle scheduled to
arrive sometime Saturday morning.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle late today.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
Prince George scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
Chilcotin scheduled to sail from
Vancouver 8 p.m. Monday.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
i sail from Vancouver June 20.
! Aleutian scheduled to sail from
I Seattle June 22.
Denali from westward scheduled
! to arrive at 9 tonight.
I
HOSPITAL IN
FLAMS; 19
INMATES DIE
MONTREAL, June 15 —W—Nine
teen persons died today In a fire
that swept hospital Ste, Cunegonde
on Atwater avenue.
The building housed 450 persons,
some of them blind or crippled
Most of them were led to safety after
the blaze broke out suddenly.
Two of the bodies were identified
as those of women. Mother Superior
Cervais and Sister Chauven of the
Grey Nuns who operated the hos
pital, were among those missing.
At one point 40 persons were re
ported trapped in the blazing build
ing.
Some 200 children, apparently all
the children who had been housed
in the building, were led to safety
by nuns.
Most of the old men lived on the
lower floors of the building and it
was believed most or all of them
escaped.
Within two hours firemen brought
the blaze under control but clouds
of smoke still rolled from tile build
ing in midtown Montreal, and flames
still could be seen on several floors.
Sections of the roof collapsed into
l the fifth floor, where blind persons
| have been housed.
WANTS MEETING OF
BIG 4 MINISTERS
ON WORLD UNREST
LONDON, June 15 — l.fl — The
United States, Britain and France
suggested to Russia today Big Four
foreign ministers should meet tc
discuss easing world tensions on the
basis of agreement already reached
by their deputies in Paris.
Identical American, British and
1 French notes handed to Soviet Dep
uty Foreign Minister Andrei A
Gromyko in Paris called for a Big
Four parley "without further ef
forts by the deputies to complete
agreement ont he agenda.”
The deputies have been trying
vainly to hammer out an agreed
agenda for the parley since March 5.
LEAVING FOR SEWARD
Alva Blackerby, forester, is ex
pecting to leave Sunday or the first
of the week for Seward on an in
spection trip of forest work on the
Kenai Peninsula. He will return the
latter part of the week and then,
the following week, go to Washing
ton, D. C., on organization and ad
ministrative matters for his depart
ment.
UN FORCES
RUN INTO
RED FIRE
Fighter-Bombers Locate
Large Commie Group,
Let Loose With Blasts
By Associated Press
Large numbers of fresh Red troops
were reported digging in today on
the rain-swept ridges of Eastern
Korea.
Reds battled UN tank columns on
the Central front, but vanished com
pletely in the west.
Allied tank columns rumbled up
two roads toward Kumsong, new
Chinese base in the center. One pa
trol moved through a mountain pas;
to the Chupa area, nine miles south
of Kumsong. It met only sporadic
fire. Another tank patrol clanked out
of Kumhwa, 11 miles west of Chupa,
blasting at determined Chinese
along a ridge route.
i ommir croup nomoea
UN fighter-bombers slipped thru
rain clouds to aid the drive toward
Kumsong. Pilots reported they
caught a "large group" of Reds on
the open banks of the Kumsong
river just before dusk. They said
they got ''excellent coverage” with
their bomb strikes.
To.the southeast, North Koreans
showered the Allied line with mor
tar fire. AP Correspondent Oeorge
A. McArthur reported.
“The Reds are digging in,” a UN
official said, “trying to establish •
iWl>en»« Una.”
Intense Red Fire
In the Yanggu-Inje area Red ar
tillery sometimes set the hills ring
ing with continuous explosions, Mc
Arthur reported.
UN foot troops straightened theit
lines and probed Red positions all
along the east. North of Inje the
Allies pushed about a mile through
intense fire.
Chinese Air Force Busy
Meanwhile, the dormant Chinese
Red Air Force showed signs of life.
Two planes struck far behind UN
lines yesterday in their deepest pene
tration in months. One plane
bombed and strafed an Allied* air
field at Suwon, 25 miles south of
Seoul. Another raided Yongdongpo,
a suburb of the old South Korean
capital.
3,000 Red Planes
Air Force Secretary Thomas Fin
letter told Allied newsmen in Tokyo
today that UN combat planes now
in Japan and Korea would be able
to handle the Chinese Air Force
should thi Reds elect to make a
fight of It. The U. S. Army officers
have estimated the Reds have 3,000
planes in Manchuria. Finletter said
it would be a different story, how
ever, if the Russians enter the
Korean war with their powerful air
force. That, said the Air Force sec
retary, would create a very serious
situation.
In Honolulu
1100.000 PEOPLE
FOR ANCHORAGE IS
PREDICTED BY FHA
ANCHORAQE, Alaska, June 15—
(in —The Alaska director of the Fed
eral Housing' Administration pre
dicts Anchorage will have more than
100.000 population within five to
seven years.
C. C. Staples, the FHA official,
made this forecast at a chamber of
commerce meeting.
He said development of water
sources and distribution systems is
the only element hampering the
tripling of the present population.
KARLUK DISTRICT
CLOSES TO FISHINQ
Karltlk district, on Kodiak Island
will close this weekend to all com
mercial salmon fishing, according to
C. Howard Baltzo of FWS.
Baltzo said the closure was made
necessary because the commercial
fatch is far In excess of escapement,
is far in excess of escapement.
COMPLETES TRAIL WORK
A forest service trail crew, headed
by Jack Mills, returned to Juneau
this week after completing main
tenance work in the Taku river area.