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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,777__ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1951_ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_PRICE TEN CENTS
Chinese in Surprise Withdrawal in Korea
COLLAZO
ISSENT
TO CHAIR
• To Pay with Life for Killing
Guard in Attempt on
Truman's life
WASHINGTON, April 6 — Ml—
Oscar Collazo today was sentenced
to die in the electric chair Oct. 26
for the slaying of a White House
guard in an attempt last November
on the life of President Truman.
Federal Judge T. Alan Golds
borough asked whether Collazo had
anything to say. Collazo said he did
not want to plead for his life, but
to plead for liberty for Puerto Rico.
At his trial, Collazo had con
tended he and a companion, Grise
lio Torresola, were only demonstrat
ing for Puerto Rican independence
when they attempted to storm Blair
House last Nov. 1. Torresola and a
White House guard, Leslie Coffelt,
were killed in a furious exchange
of pistol shots.
Makes Odd Plea
“I am not pleading for my life,”
Collazo told the judge. "I’m plead
ing for my cause. Anything that I
have done I did for the liberty of
my country. I insist, even unto the
end, that we have a right to be
free.”
Collazo’s 42-year-old wife, Rosa,
heard her husband doomed without
any show of emotion.
Afterward she told reporters that
her husband’s death will not weak
en the cause of Puerto Rican inde
pendence “but will make it strong
er.”
Sentence Mandatory
“I will stay side by side to him,”
Mrs. Collazo added.
The death sentence was manda
tory from a jury’s verdict March 7
that Collazo was guilty of two counts
of first degree murder.
Both murder charges were based
on Coffelt's death. One alleged de
liberate and premeditated murder.
The other charged murder while
attempting to obtain entry into
Blair House — the temporary White
House residence — with intent to
' assassinate the President.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, April 6 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3. American Can
112%, American Tel. and Tel. 1531-2,
Anaconda 40%, Douglas Aircraft
100, General Electric 55%, General
Motors 52%, Goodyear 72%, Kenne
cott 74%, Libby, McNeill and Libby
9%, Northern Pacific 35%, Stand
ard Oil of California 45%, Twen
tieth Century Fox 21, U. S. Steel
43%, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Ex
change 94.07%.
Sales today were 1,450,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 250.83, rails 83.02, utili
ties 42.49.
AT THE GASTINEAU
Elmer Garner of Angoon is- stop
ping at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Washinglon
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
tCopyrUht, 1951, Of Beu Syndicate, Inc..
W~0«. — The questions
I have heard most frequently since
returning from Europe are: “What
do they think of us abroad? Why
don’t they like us better?”
The questions are important. Be
cause, while we have poured bil
lions into Europe, first to win a
war, then to feed Europe after the
war, later to reconstruct it, now
to rearm it, the fact remains that
we are not popular.
To some degree our popularity
can be measured by the distance
of each country from the Iron Cur
tain. In Turkey, Yugoslavia, Ber
lin—all cheek-and-jowl with the
Iron Curtain—we are popular. But
as you travel west away from Rus
sia, fear lessens, and so does our
popularity.
In western Europe, however, if
you get away from the newspaper
comment, away from the cartoons
and the sophisticated drawing-room
(Continued on Page Four)
Elks Grand Exalted Ruler Here
Joseph B. Kyle, highest official in Elkdom, arrives this afternoon,
not only for a visit to the Juneau Elks Lodge but to dedicate the
Iron Lung purchased by the Elks and for use by the public. The
Grand Exalted Ruler will dedicate the Iron Lung tomorrow afternoon
at 4:30 o’clock at the Elks auditorium and the public is invited to
this event.
Beautiful Wife Seduced;
Mate Kills Attacker; tie's
Found Guilty; Takes Life
TROOPS
LANDED,
KODIAK
Landing Tadics Carried
Out in War Maneuver
Realism Is Reported
KODIAK, Alaska. April 6 —Wl—
The first ground troop landing of
the current Alaska war maneuvers
was staged on this Naval Base is
land early yesterday.
A company of troops simulated a
submarine landing on the north
side of the rugged island in the
fourth day of "Operation Firestep.”
Prior to the actual landing, "ene
my” planes made bombing • and
strafing runs over the island’s in
stallations.
Maneuver umpires have not yet
evaluated the effectiveness of the
landing operation or the defenses.
Forces Are Landed
The Kodiak landing is one of the
major phases of the scheduled 23
day exercise. Other similar ground
force actions are expected in the
Anchorage and Fairbanks areas.
A paratrooper landing from A
Northern Canada staging area is
scheduled to be the highlight of the
mock warfare.
Air Maneuvers
Realism was added to the man
euvers at Anchorage night before
last when nn unidentified plane was
picked up on the radar screen and
umpires could not identify it im
mediately as from the "aggressor"
air force. Fort Richardson was
quickly blacked out and fighter air
(Coetinued on Page Two)
STEAMIER MOVEMENTS
Freighter Square Knot in port and
scheduled to sail sometime tomor
row for Pelican, Hawk Inlet and
Todd.
Princess Norah from Vancouver
due to arrive Saturday afternoon
or evening.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle late today.
Denali from westward scheduled
southbound Sunday morning.
HOUSTON, Tex., April 6 —(iTt—
Dr. Robert S. Rutledge, Jr., who
killed his wife’s seducer, chose death
to a prison cell.
His 70-year sentence confirmed by
the Iowa Supreme Court and. his
freedom on $40,000 bail near an end,
the handsome 30-year-old children’s
doctor wrote a last love letter to
his beautiful wife. Then he executed
a carefully planned suicide.
The weapon was carbon monoxide
and the time indefinite. But the set
ting was the couple’s favorite spot
in the countryside.
“Love is fleeting,” he wrote the
blonde, statuesque Sydney. “Forget
all ot)tu Bus . . . time will cure a
lot of grief.”
Rutledge's body was found in fns
automobile late yesterday. There
was proof it had been there all day,
probably all Wednesday night.
His suicide was the last act in a
case that included murder—of By
ron Hattman—and one of the most
torrid and sensational trials in the
history of American law.
The lives and loves of Rutledge,
his wife, and Hattman were unfold
ed in a Cedar Rapids, la., courtroom
in 1949.
There Sydney testified she was
forced to submit to Hattman after
a boat ride and drinking party in
July, 1948.
The defense argued Rutledge was
defending the sanctity of his home;
the state that Rutledge lay in wait
in a hotel room, knocked Hattman
out wth a blow on the head and
stabbed him “with surgical precision
and skill.”
“I love you,” he ended the letter
to his 25-year-old wife, who had
to be given sedatives for serious
shock.
BREWSTER CALLS
FOR NEW PROBE,
CIVIL AB AFFAIRS
WASHINGTON, April 6, —W>»—
Senator Brewster (R-Me) has called
on Democrats to start a new inves
tigation of what he calls "White
House influence” in affairs of the
Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB).
Brewster said the spending of
“millions and millions” in subsidies
to air lines is “ripe for inquiry.’
An investigation of CAB affairs,
now in preliminary stages by the
Senate Small Business committee,
Brewster asserted, “Isn’t bifead
enough.” The CAB regulates op
erations of commercial airlines.
BREAKUP AT
NENANA IS
UNCERTAIN
According to advices received to
day by The Empire from Don R.
Clark of Nenana, the seventh black
and white tripod has been set In
place on the river with 46 inches of
ice under it at least from tests
taken four days ago.
Sunday, Pred Mueller and Bill
Monroe will string the wire to
the tower on the bank and get
the wire to the clock house.
Opinions on the breakup have
shifted somewhat this week, Clark
said. Due to the warm weather Ne
nana has been experiencing, Opin
ions seem to be split half and half
ior a late April breakup or for
the first ten days in May.
ATOMSPY
IS GIVEN
15 YEARS
1
NEW YORK, April 6 —lift— Atom
spy David Oreenglass, accuser of
his doomed sister and brother-in
law, was sentenced to 15 years In
prison today for his part in the
Russian spy ring.
The 29-year-old former Army
sergeant’s testimony formed the
bulwark of the case against Ethel
mwl Julius Rosenberg, sentenced
yesterday to death in the electric
chair.
U. S. Attorney Irving H. Saypol
recommended the 15-year sentence
,for Greenglass in “tolerance for
penitence, contriteness, remorse and
belated truth.”
Greenglass testified he stole atom
bomb secrets at the government ex
perimental station at Los Alamos,
N. M., and turned them over to the
Rosenbergs for transmission to Rus
sia.
The former soldier was sentenced
by Federal Judge Irving R. Kauf
man, the same judge who sentenced
the Rosenbergs and who also or
dered Morton Sobell, a fourth de
fendant, to serve 30 years.
Greenglass was the only one of
the four to plead guilty.
The judge made no recommenda
tion for an eventual parole for
Greenglass.
The pudgy Greenglass, standing
with hands clasped behind his back,
showed no emotion.
Judge Kaufman said he consid
ered the 15-year sentence "a just
sentence.”
“You helped us strike a death
blow to the trafficking of our mili
tary secrets by foreign agents,” the
judge said.
He termed Greenglass’ activities
in the spy ring as "loathsome” and
“contemptible,” but said recogni
tion must be given to the aid he
later gave the government.
I
MacArlhur Favors
Using Nationalist
Troops, Korea War
WASHINGTON, April 6, —(A**—
Republican leader Joseph W. Mar
tin has told the House Gen. Mac
Arthur favors use of Chinese Na
tionalist troops in the Korean
fighting.
Debating a bill to extend the
draft law and create the machinery
for universal military training, the
Massachusetts lawmaker said he
had requested MacArthur’s views on
the use of the Nationalist troops
now in Formosa.
MacArthur, he said, wrote him
a letter on March 20, endorsing
Martin’s demand that the troops
of Chiang Kai-shek be used againft
the Chinese Reds.
MART GOFF HERE
Mary L. Goff, wellknown in Ju
neau, returned Thursday from two
years in Nome where she has been
with the Alaska Native Service.
She is stopping at the Hotel Ju
neau.
In 1950 infant mortality fell be
low 30 per 1,000 births in the U. S.
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are reported massed (B) north of parallel 38. On eastern front, where South Korean troops arc 13 miles
north of the border (C), Allied forces patrolled against light resistance. (A) Wirephoto Map.
NEW ISSUES
COMING UP IN
KOREAN WAR
Bomb Manchuria Says Con
gressman - MacArthur
Makes New Proposal
By Associated Press
Two U. S. Congressmen in Tokyo
urged. that General MacArthur’s
command should be permitted to
bomb Chinese bases In Manchuria.
In a Joint statement after a visit
to Korea, Reps. Dorn (D-SC) and
Armstrong (R-Mo) said: "We fail
to see how the war can be won if
our forces cannot carry the action
to enemy territory.”
In Washington, administration of
ficials and the Pentagon command
winced at the latest communica
tion of General MacArthur to Rep.
Joe Martin of Massachusetts read
to the House yesterday. In it Mac
Arthur favored using Chiang Kai
Shek’s Chinese Nationalist forces
in the Korean conflict and said
Asia "is where the Communist con
spirators have elected to make their
play for global conquest.”
The .communication seemed to
run contrary to the administration’s
top diplomatic and military plans.
Meanwhile it was reported in
Washington that Britain and the
United States have split sharply
over a proposed statement of Kor
ean war aims and peace hopes. The
statement was to have been Issued
by President Truman about the
time the Allies crossed the 38th
Parallel in North Korea.
The clash between London and
Washington is said to be over how
far to go in Inducing Peiping to
open peace talks now.
I
The Korean tiger often measures
12 feet from nose to tail tip and
has a shaggier, heavier coat than
the Bengal tiger.
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•
• WEATHER REPORT
• Temperature (or 34-Hour Period
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
• In Juneau — Maximum,
• 44; minimum, 38.
• At Airport — Maximum,
• 42; minimum, 35.
•
• FORECAST
• Mostly cloudy with rain
• showers occasionally mixed
• with snow tonight and Sat
• urday. Lowest temperature
• tonight near 35. Highest Sat
• urday near 41.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Put M hours ending 7:30 a.m. today
• City of Juneau — .42 inches;
• Since April 1 — 3.03 inches;
• Since July 1 — 80.96 Inches.
• At Airport — .10 inches;
• Since April 1 — 1.05 inches;
• Since July 1 — 36.81 Inches.
• •••••••••
Anchorage Taxi Combine
Is Revealed; Anti-Trust
Case Is Now Being Heard
JUNEAU GETS
MORE MONEY
FOR ROADS
WASHINGTON, April 6 —UTh
The House Appropriations Com
mittee today recommended appro
priation of another $11,000,000 for
Alaska projects In the year ending
next July 1.
Largest Item Is $4,000,000 to re
place buildings of the Alaska Rail
road at Anchorage which burned
iearly this year.
This Is $500,000 less than what
the Interior Department asked. The
committee said the difference could
be saved by constructing fewer than
the six separate buildings as had
been planned.
It recommended ‘standard fire
proofing precautions should be
strictly observed in the new con
struction.”
Fire loss also accounted for a $3,
300,000 item to replace the Indian
hospital at Bethel.
Another $3,500,000 was recom
mended for Tongass Forest high
ways. Public Roads Bureau spokes
men had said these roads are es
sential to establishment of pulp
plants at Ketchikan, Juneau and
Sitka.
TRUMAN ASKS FOR
ADDED SIX BILLION
FOR ARMEDfORCES
WASHINGTON, April 6, —<*>—
President TVuman has asked Con
gress for an additional $6,422,000,000
for the armed forces.
This is atop $41,800,000,000 of
buying power already provided for
them since last July.
The new $6,422,000,000 request is
designed to cover fiscal deficiencies
which have developed in the ex
pansion of the armed forces toward
a goal of 3,462,000 men by next
June 30.
COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT
The Juneau City Council will
hold a regular meeting in the City
Council Chambers tonight at 8 to
consider problems in connection
with evacuating the AB and City
Hall property and moving the city
departments.
FROM WRANGELL
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Sievertsen
of Wrangell are at the Baranof
Hotel.
F ..
ANCHORAGE. Alaska. April *
Wl—Anchorage taxicab firms tried
to put him out of business, a former
operator of the Inter-Post Cab Co.,
testified on the fourth day of anti
trust trials here.
Appearing as a Government wit
ness, Carl Sturdevant, who once
operated a cab company at Elmen
dorf Air Force Base and Fort Rich
ardson, said he was squeezed out
of business when certain city cab
operators banded to obtain a con
tract to operate on the military
posts.
He said they were able to make
a better offer to Army authorities
than he could.
Drivers Threatened
Sturdevant told the court that
when his firm started to haul serv
icemen to and from the post at a
new lower rate than town cabs, his
drivers were threatened by local
operators.
When he first operated, Sturde
vant said he confined his hauls to
the base, but got permission of the
i military to haul to the city limits
j After this, intimidation began, he
| said.
Conversation Related
I He told of a conversation with
i Frank Jones, one of the men undei
Indictment.
"I asked him If he stopped one ol
my drivers, and if so, why. Jonet
told me ‘Yes, I told him he was nol
allowed to operate outside Fori
Richardson’.”
Sturdevant sad he told Jones h<
: did have such authority.
I “You may possess authority or
I paper,” the witness quoted Jonei
I in reply, “but h^ (Jones) said 1
■ wouldn’t have many cabs left if 1
didn’t stop it.”
Verbal Battles
Verbal battles between Sturde
vant and Defense Attorney Willian
Renfrew enlivened the court session
The witness said he was forcet
out of business in January, 1949
when a group of city cab operator:
banded to offer the military a bet
ter deal than he could as an indl
vidual company.
“They offered to keep 12 cabs oi
the base at all hours, charge a base
rate of 50 cents and use meters,
couldn't keep more than four then
so my bid wasn’t accepted," he said
In April, 1949, he resigned th<
presidency of Inter-Past Cab, anc
shortly thereafter the busines
folded.
"In my mind I know that thi
Anchorage Cab Owners Associatior
got that bid, and that the Richard
son Cab Company was formed fron
its members." he concluded.
The Government charges this as
soclation was formed for the pur
pose of fzing prices and eliminatini
competition.
The defense contends it and i
similar group in the city were form
ed at the request of the city councl
to draw up uniform rates.
I
REDS BEAT
IT IN ONE
WAR ZONE
UN Units Thrust Forward
Across 38th Meeting
Patrol Contact
By Associated Press
A surprise Chinese withdrawal
on the Central front last night left
a “no-man's land" In front of UN
forces today north of Parallel 38.
AP Correspondent John Randolph
said Chinese who had been fighting
stubbornly for two days suddenly
broke contact Thursday night and
retreated.
Americans thrusting forward Fri
day reported only patrol contact.
All along a 40-mile stretch of
the front, UN units forged slow
gains.
Inside Red Line
At one point on the West-Central
front the Allies were eight miles
inside the Communist northland
while to the east, 8outh Korean
troops penetrated 15 miles north
of the Parallel.
Troops of Oeneral MacArthur’s
command — American, British.
Greek, South Korean and Thai
(Siamese), chased Chinese from ;;
hill to hill In their Central front
advance.
Allied Push
The Allied push is an attempt to
harass and delay a reported Red
Chinese buildup for a gigantic
spring offensive.
Most of the enemy have been
cleaned out of South Korean terri- 1
tory. The holdouts in the Central
sector — blocking the Haggye-Inje
road east of Chunchon — were
slowly yielding territory. The Reds
controlled ridges on both sides of
the road.
Offensive Off Bchedl^e
There were signs that the Allied
offensive and heavy bombing at
tacks have already thrown the Chi
nese spring campaign off schedule.
Allied pilots reported the number
of Chinese vehicles moving to the
front last night were reduced. Only
1,000 vehicles were' spotted com
pared with the week's average of
1,700 a night.
REPORT J&P
TROOPS WITH
KOREA REDS
t
NEW YORK, April 6 —(M— The
New York Daily News, in a special ,
dispatch from Washington, said to
day Red Japanese troops, amalga- ■
mated with the Communist Chinese
Manchurian Army, are massing on
the Korean border in Manchuria.
House Speaker Sam Rayburn in
terrupted House debate on the draft
bill yesterday and stated that troops
other than Chinese were massing
in Manchuria. Rayburn did not
identfy the troops. j
The News said it learned from
intelligence sources that he meant
Japanese troops captured by the j
Russians in 1945 and indoctrinated \
by the Soviets. <
(For several years Japanese news
| papers have reported a Japanese
’ military force of former war pris
oners has been operating with the
Chinese Reds).
About 10,000 of these Jap troops*
former members of the Kwantung
. Army, are grouped in a separate
division, the News said. \
Tuna Fleet Strike
Settled With AFL
Engineers Signing
i ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 6, —UH
■ —A strike which tied up most of the
. 100 boat tuna fishing fleet here
I for 11 weeks has ended as engineers,
members of the AFL Machinists
lJ Union, began signing contracts with
. boat owners. The first clippers are j
1 expected to leave port by night- '
fall.