THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,799
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1951
MKMIiER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Red Chinese Korean Offensive Has Fizzled
MacARTHUR
HEARINGS
IN PRIVATE
Senate Committees Are to
Work Behind Closed
Doors-Hot Row
WASHINGTON, May 2 — (A*) —
The 25 senators on the Armec
Services and Foreign Relations com
mittees have decided they won't let
any other Congress members sit in
tomorrow on their closed door ques
tioning of Gen. Douglas MacAr.hui
about his differences with Pre ;ident
Truman.
The decision, disclose! today, ap
peared certain to add more heat to
the whole controversy boiling on
Capitol Hill over the firing of M.ic
Arthur from his Far Eastern com
mands.
Even before it became known.
House Republican Leader Marti': J
(Mass), protesting against closed
door hearings by the Senate com
mittees, demanded that similar
House groups conduct a public air
ing of the mattei.
Objections Raised
Martin made public a letter to
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the
House Armed Services committee
and Chairman Kee )D-WVa> of the
House Foreign Affairs committee in
which he said:
“These are no orinary times, and
this is no ordinary inquiry.”
Some Republicans are arguing
that too much secrecy in the for
eign policy field has led to mis
takes.
Senator Knowland (R-Calif) con
tended that if the public and Con
gress had known the contents of the
Wedemeyer report on Korea they
might have prevented many Com
munists advances in Asia.
“Top Secrei" Exposed
This report, prepared by Lt. Gen.
Albert C. Wedemeyer in 1947, warn
ed that “Soviet-inspired” North
Koreans might invade South Korea.
Kept previously under a “top secret’
label, the report was given out yes
terday by Chairman Russell (D-Ga)
of the Senate Armed Services com
mittee as a preliminary to the Mac
Arthur hearings.
Backers of MacArthur’s views on
Far Eastern policy promptly claim
ed it proved administration policy
in Korea and China was wrong.
The Armed Services committee
with 13 members, and the Foreign
Relations committee, with 12, are
to question MacArthur tomorrow as
the first witness in a general in
quiry into Far Eastern policy. Nor
mally, the Foreign Relations com
mittee ■ also has 13 members but
there is a vacancy due to the death
of Senator Arthur Vandenberg.
NO PREPARED STATEMENT.
NEW YORK. May 2 —141— Gen
(Continued on Page Two)
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
•Copyright. 1*91. or Bell Syndicate, Inc.
"Washington—There has been
a significant and sincere difference
of opinion regarding full and open
hearings for the MacArthur testi
mony beginning tomorrow.
Sen. Dick Russell of Georgia has
been anxious not to have anything
come out of the hearings that
would in any way give aid and
comfort to the enemy. Everyone
else agrees with him on this.
Not in agreement, however, are
aU the military men in the Pent
agon. Some of them feel that such
a hearing would start an extreme
ly bad precedent in making public
1 military mistakes of the past. This
feeling is not shared by all. Gen.
Omar Bradley, for instance, has be
lieved in putting the cards on the
table no matter whose errors it
shows up, including his own.
However, it has been a tradition
al policy among the military foi
100 years or so never to make pub
i lie the battle errors of war. For
instance, the files on the mistakes
, of World War I never have been
open to Congress or the public,
nor of the Spanish-American war,
nor even the Civil War. This is
because it is definite military pol
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"Welcome Home"
Gov. Gordon Browning (holding hat by side) welcomes Jean Fair
cloth MacArthur and her family back to her native Tennessee, short
ly after they landed at Stewart Air Force Base near Smyna, Tenn.
UPI Wirephoto.
CRUISER JUNEAU
BACK FROM YEAR
OF WARIN KOREA
Ctll., ivia> a —»A*)—
With her homeward bound pennant
flying, the anti-aircraft cruiser
Juneau nosed up to the pier here
yesterday, one year af'.er leaving
the United States for war.
Hundreds of cheering, waving
spectators lined the wharf to wel
come the Juneau home.
The cruiser was -off Japan when
the Korean war broke out On June
28, after becoming the first U. S.
naval unit to join the South Korean
Navy, she fired the first naval shots
df the war.
She destroyed five of six attack
ing Communist torpedo and gun
boats. Later she joined bombard
ment groups in action above the
33th Parallel.
The Long Beach Municipal band
gave the ship a resounding welcome
As her crew stood at attention on
the port side. Nearly half of the
ship’s company is due for leave.
Her skipper, Capt. William T
Kenny of Nashville, Tenn., was re
lieved by CApt. Alexander S. Me
Dill of Mill Valley. Calif., in a brief
ceremony on deck.
gameTtoday
Here are scores of games played
this afternoon as received by the
Empire at press time:
NATIONAL
New York 8, Chicago 1.
Pittsburgh 4, Brooklyn 3.
Boston 5. St. Louis 0.
Cincinnati 6, Philadelphia 4.
AMERICAN
CLEVELAND. May 2 — !.?> —With
their sensational new rookie, Harry
Simpson enjoying a perfect day at
bat, the Cleveland Indians beat the
Red Sox, 4 to 3, today to sweep a
two-game series.
An amazed crowd of 11,388 saw
Simpson lace three consecutive
singles off Mel Parnell and close his
performance with a double off EhL
Kinder. It was the second major
league ball game Simpson had ever
played.
Cleveland’s old manager. Lou Bou
dreau, belted a three-run home run
•n the eight for Boston off Lou
Brissie, the Indians’ new pitcher.
CHICAGO, May 2 — Wl— Joe Col
lins’ triple in the ninth drove in the
winning run today as the ir.jury
plagued New York Yankees came
from behind to nip the Chicago
White Sox, 6-4.
VTFAHtD MOVEMENTS
Freighter Sailors Splice from Seat
tle scheduled to arrive Saturday.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday 8 p.m.
Denali scheduled to arrive Sunday
at 3 a.m., southbound .
DOUGLAS PEAK
NAMED FOR LATE
GOVERNOR TROY
Jur.eau and the channel area
! now has a mountain peak to com
memorate the memory of John W.
Troy, former Governor of Alaska
and newspaperman.
Word was received by E. L. Kei
thahn, secretary of the Advisory
Committee on names, from Mere
dith F. Burriil, executive secretary
of the Board of Geographic Names,
in Washington, D. C., that Mount
Troy had been approved as the
name for the high peak in the
ridge on Douglas Island that
oounds the ski trail on the west.
Dr. I. J. Montgomery, president
of the Shank, Ship and Shutter
Club, and Keithahn, said that plans
are being made to have an official
christening of the peak about the
middle 01 June, A group from the
hiking club will ascend the peak
and erect a cairn and as the chris
tening ceremony is carried out,
Mrs. Alf N. Monsen, daughter of
the late Governor Troy, will fly
over the peak and drop a wreath
oi llowers.
John Troy was born on a farm
at Dungeness, Washington Terri
iory, and was the son of Smith and
Laura Weir Troy and descendant
of old American families which
settled in Maryland and Pennsyl
vania in the early seventeenth
century.
As a young ooy Troy went to
j Port Townsend to live with an
uncle, Allan. Weir, who v. is pub
lisher of The Argus. Here, at o very
early age, he received his first
taste of newspaper work as "prin
ter's devil.” in his uncle’s shop. He
attended Port Townsend sohools and
the Academy of Puget Sound and
then returned to his uncle’s paper
as reporter. In 1889, when Wash
ington was admitted as a state in
the Union, Troy became first dep
uty auditor, of Clallam county
then served as deputy county clerk.
In 1892 he was designated county
auditor of Clallam county and re
mained in that post until 1897.
Curing all these years he was in
terested in newspaper work, owning
and publishing the Weekly Demo
ciatic Leader of Port Angeles.
In 1897 his adventurous spirit
le,ad him to Alaska as a newspaper
correspondent covering the gold
rush. He arrived in Skagway and,
in addition to his newspaper du
ties, became manager of a pack
train service operated out of Skag
way and over White Pass by
"Brooks the Packer.” Tl^p work
and responsibility were hard and
he was attacked by a form of par
alysis which had become an epi
demic Un the frontier town.
He returned to Port Angeles for
treatment, recovered and then re
turned to Skagway where he be
came editor and publisher of The
Skagway Daily Alaskan. There his
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PAY CUT IN
TERRITORIES
PROTESTED
—
WASHINGTON, May 2 — lift —
! Charges that the Interior Depart
j ment's new appropriations bil
I makes glaring discrimination;
against Territorial employes were
! voiced today by delegates Bartlett
oi Alaska and Farrington of Hawaii
The Seattle Post Intelligencer's
special correspondent reported the
department's new budget will el
minate the 25 per cent "cost oi
living” wage differential to depart
ment employes who are hired in
| ihe Territory.
.Under the new plan workers re
I uuited outside the territory would
' leceive the differential for the same
j jobs, the report stated.
Both Bartlett and Farrington
j said they would fight the cuts
when the bill is debated later this
week.
"This is colonialism at its worst,”
Bartlett declared.
“It means that residents of Al
aska would be penalized for living
there whenever they sought or ac
cepted a government job.”
Delegate Farrington added:
“It’s a stupid, dirty trick.”
Hawaiian workers would suffer
a 20 per cent “cost of living” dif
ferential cut.
Commented Robert W. Atwood,
Anchorage publisher and chairman
oi the Alaska statehood committee:
"The government will be in
creasing the cost of staffing its
operations up there instead of sav
ing money. It will lose time in
liiling vacancies and it will have
much more difficulty in making
replacements.”
NO PAY CUT
WASHINGTON, May 2 — IjPl —
The House voted unanimously today
to retain the premium pay scale
for Interior Department employes
in Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico.
Payment of the differential to
persons transferred from the con
tinental United States was not in
volved.
A motion by Delegate Bartlett iD
Alaska) to strike out the provision
was accepted without debate by Rep.
Jackson (D-Wash) speaking for the
Appropriations committee.
Bartlett and Delegate Farrington
(R-Hawaii) were prepared to argue
that the provision would discrimi
nate against residents of the Ter
ritories.
GOVERNMENT WILL
HOLD DAM AGAINST
ANY NEWINFLATION
WASHINGTON, May 2 — UP) —
Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnson
assured businessmen today the gov
ernment will hold the dam against
“a new inflation flood" anticipated
by Christmas when arms produc
tion reaches full tide.
‘‘So far we’ve had only a flash
flood of inflation,” he said, “compar
ed to what we could have by early
winter without the sternest kind of
steps to counteract it.”
In a speech to theU. S. Chamber
of Commerce at its 39th annual
meeting, Johnson promised to write
wage-price ceilings off the book#
“the minute I feel controls are ne
longer necessary.” He predicted that
this day is about two years off.
The ESA administrator urged hi.1
audience of industrialists not to let
down until the job is done. “We
can't talk turkey to Communism
with a feather duster,” he said.
STOCK 0U0TATI0N5
NEW YORK. May 2 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mint
stock today is 2%, American Cat
U414, American Tel. and Tel. 155%
Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraf'
104, General Electric 55%, Genera
Motors 53%, Goodyear 78%, Kenne
cott 76%, Libby, McNeill and Libby
9%, Northern Pacific 37%, Standard
Oil of California 49%, Twentieth
Century Fox 21%. U. S. Steel 43%
Pound $2.80*4, Canadian Exchange
94.25.
Sales today were 1,900,000. shares
Averages today were as follows:
i Industrials 261.27, rails 83.84. utili
ties 42.50.
_!___._——-— +
Flaming Korean Front
Hank 25th Division artillerymen blast at Reds within 300 yards of the Korean front south of the linjin
River in support of infantry comrades trying to stem Red tide. Allied artillery was concentrating near
Seoul to blunt Red drive. II. S. Army Photo via I IP) Wirephoto.
RATIONING
MAY RESULT,
MEAT ORDER
__
! ,1#»GHINGTON. May 2 — DPI —
! The Senate Agriculture committee
said today the government’s new
price control order on beef will
cause “a severe meat famine leading
to early rationing.”
The committee adopted a resolu
tion calling for repeal of the order
"without delay.”
The resolution deals with a regu
lation issued by the OPS last Sat
urday. Effective May 9, it imposes
price ceiling on beef sold at whole
sale, the committee said.
The resolution says the order al
ready “has resulted in livestock
producers rushing their cattle to
market before they are finished to
their best marketable weights.”
“Such premature marketing will
result in a loss of meat for con
sumers,” the resolution declares, and
“the (cattle) feeders who produce
much of the meat supply will suf
fer severe losses.”
The committee also said a govern
ment announcement of "further roll
backs in beef will have the effect of
continued early marketing of meat
animals.”
Mother of
'51 Named
i
NEW YORK. May 2 —'/PI— A 77
vfcar-old doctor — known as the
"Grand Lady of the Blue Ridge”—
has been selected as the "American
Mother of 1951.”
Dr. Mary T.' Martin Sloop, of
Crossnore, N. C., was named for the
honor yesterday by the American
Mothers committee of the Golden
Rule Foundation, an organization
devoted to the welfare of mothers
and children.
She practices medicine with her
country doctor husband. Dr. Eustace
H. Sloop. Their two children also
are doctors in the same county.
She founded Crossnore School for
Underprivileged Children and ha'
been credited with bringing good
roads, modern farming methods
religious tolerance, a hospital and
dental clinic, and vocational in
struction at Avery County, N. C.
8 CARRIED ON
ELLIS AIRLINES
Ellis Airlines carried a total ol
eight passengers on Wednesday’!
flight with two on interport.
Arriving from Petersburg: Johi
Allen.
From Ketchikan: Dale Lewis, Ra;
Anderson, Allan McCombs. Williau
McCombs, William Barton, E<
WhitmVsh.
Lloyd Robison of Anchorage i
registered at the Barauof Hotel.
Local Harbor
Improvement
Is Proposed
PORTLA.no, May 2 —iff)— The
jorps of Engineers has recommend
ed further improvement of Alaska’s
Juneau and Douglas harbors for
navigation as a result of field in
vestigations and public hearings in
the two cities in June, 1946.
Brig. Gen. O. E. Walsh, North
Pacific division engineer, said the
recommendation has been submitted
for review to the Board of Engi
neers for Rivers and Harbors, Wash
ington, D. C.
The proposal calls for modifica
tion of the existing project for Jun
eau and Douglas to include dredg
ing a small-boat basin more than
20 acres in size at Douglas 14 feet
deep at low water.
Engineers estimated construction
cost at $368,680 plus $3,000 annual
maintenance. This Is an addition of
maintenance costs of the existing
project.
Local interests would have to bur
nish lands, easements and rights
of-way, construct moorage facilities,
utilities and a public landing, alter
sewer, water supply, drainage and
other facilities and maintain the
causeway to Juneau Island and the
rockfill approach to the Douglas
wharf.
Interested persons may present
their views to the Board of Engi
neers for Rivers and Harbors, Room
305. 119 D street., N. E., Washington
25. D. C., either by mail or in per
son. General Walsh said, before
May 25.
Detailed information on the plar
is available at the office of the
Alaska engineer, Anchorage, ,or at
the Seattle district engineer's office.
FROM PORTLAND
B. P. Harmon of Portland Is at
the Baranof Hotel.
NOME VISITOR
E. B. Fisher of Nome is stopping
at the Baranof Hotel.
WEATHER REPORT
TAnpcrature lor 24-Hour Period
ending 6 20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
49; minimum, 32.
At Airport — Maximum,
46; minimum, 28.
FORECAST
Fair with some high cloudi
ness tonight and Thursday.
Lowest temperature tonight
about 35. Highest Thursday
near 56.
i PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a m. today
i City of Juneau — Trace;
» Since May 1 — Trace;
> Since July 1 — 68.05 inches.
» At Airport — Trace;
» Since May 1 — .02 inches;
» Since July 1 — 39.29 inches.
RAW SALMON
CEILING PRICE
END OF WEEK
WARHTNCVTOK M«v 1 '/Pi —
A ceiling price Cm raw salmon by
the end of the tyeek is the aim of
the office of Price Stabilization,
Alger Pike said today.
“We've been working frantically
for two months," said the O.P.S.
consultant on fish, “trying to ar
rive at fair prices for fresh and
canned salmon, but it's a difficult
and complicated matter."
Controls for the canned salmon
industry should be developed before
the season is well started in Alas
ka, Pike added. A meeting of the
canned salmon industry advisory
committee is scheduled for Seat
tle May 15.
Prom this group and from the
fresh-and-frozen fish advisory
committee a sub-group will be
picked to meet May 17 and work
out the controls.
The present rule of canned sal
mon covers only the 20 per cent
processed in continental United
States, Pike said.
BATTLES BETWEEN
ISRAELI, SYRIANS
RAGE ON FRONTIER
TEL AVIV, Israel, May 2 —U!1)—
Heavy fighting raged today between
I-rael - Syrian troops near the dis
puted frontier area north of the
Sea of Galilee, Israel officials an
nounced tonight.
The officials said ‘ Armed Syrian
irregulars and units of the regular
Syrian Army” crossed the frontier
into Israel in the neutral zone near
the much disputed Huleh swamp
section on the Upper Jordan river
Just west of the Syrian border. Is
raeli forces engaged them.
With the fighting continuing after
nightfall, Israel brought up rein
forcements to support the small
Army patrol which held off the Sy
rians in a delaying action, the of
ficials said.
The new outbreak was the first
in more than a week. United Nations
observers trying to enter the area
were forced back because of heavy
fire. Informal meetings of Israel
and Syrian members of the UN
sponsored mixed armistice commis
sion had been held up to yesterday,
but a meeting set for Friday appear
ed unlikely now.
GIRL SCOUT NEWS
Girl Scout Troop 5, at its meet
ing Tuesday in the Methodist
Church, completed plans for the
style show and dinner for their
parents. Mrs. I J. Montgomery
brought us a treat of strawberry
ice cream and cake with strawber
ries on top. All girls are reques
ted to attend the Court of Awards
at the high school, May 10 at 8:30
p.m.
COMMIES
SEVERELY
PUNISHED
Van Fleet Visits Front and
Makes Statement New
Assault Expected
By Associated Press
The UN ground commander in
Koiea, Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet,
said today the vaunted Red Chinese
spring offensive has fizzled for the
time being.
After a visit to 10th Corps Ad
vance headquarters, Van Fleet de
clared that the first phase of the
Red drive "has ended in a great
victory for the United Nations." He
added;
"We have punished the Commun
ist forces severely. The enemy has
failed in the first phase of his of
fensive. He has paid a heavy price."
75,000 Red Casualties
After their nine-day push the
Reds have now run out of steam.
They appear to be probing and pre
paring for another onslaught, when
their supplies and fresh troops catch
up. Red casualties so far in their
spring offensive are well above 75.
000. Manpower is one thing they
have in plenty.
Van Fleet made it clear he didn’t
consider that the Chinese had ended
their offensive; he said a new Com
munist assault Is In the making.
Dam Is Blasted
Communist plans to dry up the
Pukhan and Han rivers before send
ing their war machines rolling again (
were thwarted by skyraiders from
the carrier Princeton. U. S. pilots,
using skip-bombs, blasted holes in
the giant Hwachon dam. Torrents of
water spilled into rivers of the in
vasion area.
The Reds yesterday closed the
sluice gates of the dam hoping to
dry up the rivers and make them
easy to fjord. Now the Communists
will have to build bridges to cross
the rivers. Their engineers and sup
ply lines are slow. All the time they
will be subject to relentless attacks
from Allied warplanes.
Reds Testing Lines
AP Correspondent Nate Polowetz
ky said the Reds were testing the
UN lines along the Chunchon-Hong
chon axis, in the spiny center of the
peninsula.
The Communists also made an r.t
tempt to break through east of J
giant Hwachon dam near Injc on
the 38th Parallel. Pounded by artil
lery and aerial attacks, the Reds
gave up temporarily in this sector.
Seoul Pressure Lessens
Yesterday the Reds lessened their
pressure on Seoul, the ancient Kor
ean capital being defended by a
ring of Allied steel. Today the ene
my was still out of contact with
Allied forces and there were signs
the Communists have shifted their
weight from- West to Central fronts.
Unprecedented numbers of Red
trucks were still rushing south but
the heaviest increase of men and
supplies appeared to be in the cen
ter.
4TH JULY CHAIRMAN
TO BE ELECTED AT
MEETIN6 TOMORROW
A meeting of the Fourth of July
| committee will be held tomorrow
| evening at 8 o'clock in the Gold
| room of the Baranof hotel. Mayor
Waino Hendrickson announced to
\ hay.
Two representatives of each civic
and community organization are
asked to attend. A nominating com
; mittee consisting of Larry Parker,
Robert Cowling. Bill Barron. Loren
! Card and Lucille Johnson, will pre
sent a slate of names of two or three
civic-minded persons for the chair
manship of the Fourth of July com
j mittee. Representatives are request
i ed to have authority to vote upon
any questions which may arise at
1 the meeting.
i Old records show that as many
as 30 organizations have partici
pated in previous Fourth of July
celebrations, Hendrickson said, as
he urged that every group have
representation at the Thursday
meeting.
-. ■■
Abraham Lincoln from White
Mountain is stopping at the Bar
I anof Hotel.
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