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YOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,844
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1951
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Truman Replies to Proposed Russ Peace Plan
Hero's Son Returns Salute
Seven-year-old David Desiderio returns the salute of Gen. Omar
IM&ie.v, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, as he holds the medal
of honor awarded his father, Capt. Reginald B. Desiderio of El Monte, j
Calit., who lost his life in a one-man charge that saved his task force
command in Korea. The captain’s widow, Mrs. Patricia Jean, and her
other son, three-year-old Timothy, watch the ceremony in the Pen
tagon at Washington, D.C. UP) WiVephoto.
DONOLIE WINNER
INTERNATIONAL
CRUISER EVENT
Announcements of Ray Hart's
36-foot Donolie as winner of the
1951 Cruiser Race, Bremerton to
Juneau, was made Sunday morning
because word was not received un
til midnight Saturday that extreme
ly bad weather had caused Dr.
Wayne Graham aboard his Niekenus
to drop out of the race at Alert
Bay at 5:05 p.m. Friday.
Alert Bay is the mid-way point
between Johnstone Straits and
Queen Charlotte Sound.
Norton Clapp's Carmelita was de
clared second place winner in the
international event. The Donolie
also won the Bremerton to Prince
Rupert to Juneau legs in the three
in-one race. Second place in the legs
went to Norton Clapp’s Carmelita.
Third place plaque for the Prince
Rupert to Juneau race will be given
to the Niekenus as a token for en
tering the race.
Presentation of awards for all of
the three-in-one races is to be made
at the December, 1951 meeting of
the International Power Boat As
sociation in Seattle. The exact
date of this meeting is to be an
nounced later.
Heavy Weather Encountered
A northwesterly wind ranging
from 25 to 35 miles per hour hit
the boats early in the morning of
Sunday, June 17, at Trincomalie
Channel just south of Naniamo, B.
C. FVom there into Prince Rupert,
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TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. oy Bell Syndicate. Inc..
M^ASHINGTON. — Tlie President
jokingly admitted the other day
that he had given daughter Mar
garet a fatherly briefing about Eur
opean gigolos before she left the
country. The admission was made
in a chat with Harold Russell. Na
tional Commander of Amvets, when
Russell was commenting on the
good-will aspects of Margaret’s trip.
“She’s a better Ambassador than
anyone we’ve got over there,” the
Amvets boss told Margaret’s proud
papa.
“I swell up like a pizened pup
whenever I hear that,” Truman
beamed. “It’s hard for me to real
ize that she’s grown up. I still
think of her as so high.”
The President held out his hand
about even with the top of his desk.
“In fact, I still call her ’baby’
sometimes, but I warned her before
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ATOM BOMB I
PLANES ARE
READY NOW
Could Strike Quickly if US
Attacked; MacArthur
Hearing Ending
WASHINGTON, June 25 — UR—
Maj. Gen. Emmett (Rosie) O’Don
nell told senators today the Air
Force is keeping atom-bomb-carry
ing planes ready to strike back
swiftly if this country is attacked.
“We have streamlined our pack
ages and equipment so that we can
get out there in an absolute mini
mum of time and go into action.’’
O’Donnell said.
O’Donnell, former head of the
strategic bombing command in the
Far East, was testifying as the 12th,
and scheduled final witness, at Sen
ate hearings on the dismissal of
Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The sen
ators aimed to finish with him and
complete the inquiry today.
42nd Day
It was the 42nd day of hearings by
the Senate Armed Services and
Foreign Relations committees.
Before O’Donnell • began testify
ing:
1. Senator Knowland (R-Calif)
put into the hearing record a letter
from Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King,
World War II chief of Naval oper
ations, in which King said that at
the time of the Yalta conference he
“was agreeable" to efforts to bring
Russia into the war.
2. The senators spent consider
able time debating whether to cajl
W. Averell Harriman, presidential
adviser Foreign Affairs, as a wit
ness. There was no final decision
but Senator McMahon said he would
in any case put a sworn statement
from Harriman, former ambassador
| to Russia, into the record.
Wants Rebuttal
McMahon wants Harriman to re
but testimony by Patrick J. Hurley,
Republican former ambassador to
China, that President Roosevelt
commissioned him to get a modifica
tion of the Yalta agreement which
gave Russia concessions in Man
churia.
That agreement —made by Roose
velt, Prime Minister Churchill of
Britain and Premier Stalin of Rus
sia — has figured extensively in the
hearings.
Secretary of State Acheson has
contended the Yalta concessions
were necessary to get Russia into
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MACARTHUR
HEARING IS
ENDED NOW
Last Witness Says "We
Made a Mistake" in Not
Bombing Red Bases
MACARTHUR HEARIN G baz
WASHINGTON, June 25 — IMt—
Senate hearings on the dismissal
of Gen. Douglas MacArthur were
closed today with testimony from
a former Far Eastern Air Force
general that "we made a mistake” by
not bombing Chinese bases in Man
churia last fall.
Maj. Gen. Emmett (Rosie) O'Don
nell, who commanded the big bomb
ers under MacArthur, said he ques
tipned, however, that it would be
wise now to make attacks on Man
churia. He said he Is not sure the
Air Forces could do it and “still
retain the Sunday punch for Rus
sia.”
O’Donnel was last witness (13th)
in the unprecedented hearings that
publicly aired disputes over U. S
Far Eastern policies as well as the
firing of MacArthur, one of the na
tion’s World War II heroes. He now
has an air command on the west
coast.
The hearings began May 3 and
piled up a total of more than 2,000,
000 words —enough to make a whole
shelf of novel-length volumes.
When O'Donnell was dismissed
from the witness chair at 12:47 p.m.
Chairman Russell of the inquiry
panel announced:
“This will conclude the oral testi
mony unless the committee decide*'
by majority vote • to reopen the
hearings.”
Russell said he hoped to have
the committee meet again Wednes
day or Thursday to discuss future
plans, such as additional written
material to be placed in the bulky
record.
He said the 26 committee mem
bers also must decide whether to
issue a report on their prolonged
investigation and, if so, what type
of report to draft.
UN PRES. TO
MEET WITH
RUSS HUM
WASHINGTON, June 25 — UPI—
Iranian Ambassador Nasroilah Ente
zam, president of the UN general
assembly, said today a Korean cease
fire would “not be too difficult to
arrange” provided Russia is sincere
in desiring an end to the fighting.
Entezam said he will try to meet
with Russia’s Jacob Malik in New
York prior to tomorrow’s general
assembly session on Malik's cease
fire suggestion.
He described as “very important"
a published report that the Peip
ing radio announced Red China ful
ly supports the cease fire sugges
tion. There was no immediate con
firmation of the report.
Entezam talked to reporters after
a 20-minute meeting with Assistant
Secretary of State George C. Mc
Ghee. He said it dealt with the
Iranian oil situation entirely and
was “routine.”
TELEPHONE STRIKE
HITS NORTHWEST
CITIES, WALKOUTS
PORTLAND, Oregon, June 25 — UR
Telephone company workers here
find at St. Helens walked off the
job today and CIO Communications
Workers said they expected walk
outs at other cities in the state.
A spokesman for Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph Co. said fewer than
100 employes left their Jobs in
Portland. A union spokesman said
some 800 walked out. There was no
interruption of dial service in Port -
land.
Union spokesmen said the walk
out was in protest over delays in
getting a new contract.
GOOD tUT CAREFUL SAMARITAN —
Richard Rutter, Hlbbing, Minn., logger, wears a glove as he feeds
spoonful of honey to boar cub he found w andering In north woods.
Cooperation on
Korean Front
Revealed
WITH U. S. SEOOlfo DIVISION,
KOREA, June 2 -4/Pi— United Na
tions cooperation at the lighting
front is revealed.
A Dutch soldier brou#t)f' a wound
ed South Korean inffid^yinan. at
tached to a French battalion, to au
American ambulance driven by a
GI of Welsh descent.
FOREST FIRE U
IS SWEEPING
B.C. SECTION
VANCOUVER, B. C„ June 25 —UP!
Strong northwest winds today swept
the Queen Charlotte Islands area
where a forest fire has destroyed
more than 6,000,000 board feet of
timber.
The winds threatened to cance'
out the efforts of more than 509
loggers to confine the Moresby Is
land fire, which has also destroyed
logging equipment in ripping a patl
15 miles long and nearly two mile:
wide.
Moresby Island is one of the
Queen Charlotte chain.
The blaze has charged through
thousands of acres of virgin Silk;'
spruce woodlands near Skid gate
Lake. Forestry officials at Prince
Rupert, B.C., said the situation was
"tense."
HOSPITAL NOTES
Admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital
Saturday were William Farris, C.
V. Brown; admitted Sunday was
Edward Laurie; discharged Satur
day were Mrs. Louis Anderson and
baby girl; J. Riederer, Peter Jack
son, George Crisman, James Mc
Gehee, Rose Leonard; discharged
Sunday were Mrs. H. L. Clark and
baby boy; Dorio Neira, Robert Hil
dre, Mrs. E. M. Kauzlarich and
baby boy.
Admitted to the Government Hos
pital Saturday were James Jackson,
Juneau, Agnes Shelton, Alakanuk;
discharged was Martin Geonett,
Juneau.
Two babies were born over the
weekend at the Government Hos
pital. Born Saturday morning at
12:40 to Mrs. Leo Jacobs of Haines,
a boy weighing 9 pounds 4 ounces.
He is to be Leo Jacobs, Jr. Born to
Mrs. George Williams of Juneau at
8:45 a.m. Saturday, a girl weighing
9 pounds 6 ounces. She is to be
named Adelle Lynette.
POLICE WARNING
ON OPEN MUFFLERS
“All noisy automobile mufflers
must be repaired within 10 days.
Police Chief Bernard E, Hulk said
today. “On July 5 police will begin
arresting offende s and the po
lice mean business,” he declared.
All muffler cut-outs, by-passes,
and any device, such as an expand
ed tailpipe, which affect the oper
ation of the muffler, are illegal.
Hulk said.
WRANGELL VISITOR
Lou Ella McKibben of Wrangell
is stopping as the Baranof Hotel.
KOREAN WAR
ROARS INTO
SECOND YEAR
Reds Appear More Ag
gressive; Jet Battles
Continue Eighth Day
By Associated Press
The world talked of peace, but
the Korean W'ar roared into its
second year today.
Chinese and North Korean Reds
were more aggressive all along the
100-mile battlefront.
Communists jets streaked out of
their Manchurian sanctuary on an
other typical hit-and-run attack.
Allied worships continued to pour
a hail of steel into East coast ports
in North Korea.
The cease-fire and armistice pro
posal by Russia’s Jacob Malik had
put no damper on the fighting.
Red ground forces showed more
fight than usual. But by late after
noon there was still no sign of their
expected anniversary offensive.
Enemy Buildup
Allied officers, noting an ominous
enemy buildup in the west, had pre
dicted a limited Communist counter
attack to celebrate the war’s first
birthday.
Thirty red-nosed MTG-15 jets
darted back and forth across the
Yalu river boundary of Manchuria
Monday, jockeying for position tc
attack Fifth U. S. Air Force F-86
Sabre jets.
One of the Russian-made plane^
was shot down in flames. The Reds
broke off the 10-minute battle and
scurried back to safety in Man
churia.
It was the eighth day in the last
r.Vie that jet battles have swirled
high over Nprth Korea. The Reds
have lost 13 planes destroyed and
29 damaged.
The Allied have lost 11 planes in
that period.
EARTHQUAKE
. PALISADES, N. Y„ June 25 —I*
An earthquake of “moderate in
tensity” was reported today by the
Columbia University seismological
station here.
The shock, recorded at 11:21:08
p.m. EST last night was about 3,400
miles northwest of New York City
and may have centered in or near
Alaska, the laboratory said.
Ship Movements
Aleutian from Seattle with Seattle
CC tour party aboard due midnight.
Princess Norah from Vancouver
due tomorrow afternoon or evening.
Prince George «cheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 p.m. tomorrow.
Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle Wednesday.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
Russia's Puzzling Peace
Feeler Causes Diversified
Comment; Caution by British
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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y„ June
25 —M—President Truman respond
ed to Russia’s puzzling peace feeler
today with an assurance the United
States is ready to join in a Korean
REDS FAVOR
PROPOSALS
BY SOVIETS
Nationalists, However,
Made Threats, Also Give
More Propaganda
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 — W—
The Chinese Reds today endorsed
the Soviet suggestion for a Korean
cease-fire but implied that they
still insisted on terms favorable to
themselves.
If America should refuse, she will
be totally defeated on the battle
field, the Communists threatened.
The statement that "the Chinc'C
people fully endorse’’ Saturday’,"
Soviet proposal was contained in a
long, belligerent editorial by the
People's Daily, broadcast in full by
the Peiping radio.
Red Accusations
Bristling with the familiar Red
accusations of American aggression,
the editorial said if America “is
willing to stop the war she should
therefore fall in at once with the
just and reasonable measures for the
peaceful settlement of the Korean
question repeatedly proposed by the
people's Republic of China (the
Reds), the Soviet Union, and the
other countries which desire peace.’’
The Communist broadcast was
heard in San Francisco by the As
sociated Press.
Sought Settlement
It asserted that the Chinese Com
munist regime as far back as last
August 20 had urged peace in Korea,
and listed numerous occasions on
which the Reds had sought a set
tlement. It neglected to say that
the terms demanded op all, those
occasions included s*ati»g Red
China in the Unhid Nations, title
o Formosa and withdrawal of UN
forces from Korea.
More Propaganda
Today’s broadcast then declared:
•'On June 23, Soviet delegate to
the United Nations, Jacob Malik,
in a broadcast speech, once again
out forward proposals for the peace
ful settlement of the Korean ques
tion.
"The Chinese people fully en
lorse his proposal.,
"This is another lest for America
to see whether she accepts the les
sons of the past and whether she if
willing to settle the Korean ques
tion peacefully.”
Malik’s latest proposal simply
called for negotiations to arrange
a cease-fire on the basis of the 38th
Parallel. That is the old boundary
of North and South Korea. The
Chinese and Korean Reds now have
been driven a score of miles north
of it at all except one small posi
tion.
V/EATHER FORECAST
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
57; minimum, 49.
At Airport — Maximum,
57; minimum, 49.
FORECAST
Continued fair tonight and
and Tuesday. Lowest temp
ature tonight near 44 deg.
Highest Tuesday around 62
degrees.
precipitation
(Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — .51 inches;
Since June 1 — 5.51 inches;
Since July 1 — 78.10 inches.
At Airport — .46 inches;
Since June 1 — 3.78 inches;
Since July 1 — 45.19 inches;
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settlement. But he said any settle
ment must end the aggression mid
bring security to the Koreans.
The President's comment topped
world-wide reaction to the sugges
tion of the Soviet Union's Jaco'b A.
Malik for discussions on a cease-fire
and withdrawal of all troops from
the 38th Parallel. The Peiping radio
broadcast Malik’s proposal: Pravda
and Izvestla printed it in Moscow—
all without comment.
Optimism Caution
Foreign Secretary Morrison said
Britain is studying ways to follow
up “this possible opening,” and cau
tioned against too much optimism.
Foreign Secretary Schuman of
France called the Malik move a posi
tive element which would permit the
opening of negotiations without con
ditions. Foreign Minister Pearson
of Canada said it would be a great
mistake not to follow up Malik’s
proposal.
Australia's Foreign Minister Rich
ard Casey, said the Australian view
is that restoration of the sovereign
ty of the (South) Korean Republic
is the “essential first step."
Financial markets were 'lower all
over the world, but the New York
Stock Exchange steadied as the day
wore on.
Malik made his proposal In a
broadcast Saturday night. President
Truman spoke today at a new Air
Force development center at Tulla
homa, Tenn. He said:
Build Up Strength
“We p'.ust build yp pur strength,
hut we must always keep the door
open to peaceful settlement of dif-*
ferences.
“W? ure ready to join in a peace
ful settlement in Korea now as we
always have been. We must be ready
to take any steps which truly ad
vance us toward world peace. But
we must avoid like the plague rash
actions! which would take unneces
sary risks of world war or weak ac
tions which would reward uggres
sion."
Peace or Propaganda
As the President spoke, .sentiment
was growing in the United Nation^
for a determined effort to smoke out
the Russians and see whether Malik
was talking peace or propaganda.
The president of the UN general
assembly, Nasrollah Entezam of
Iran, made reservations to come tc
the UN late today from Washing
ton. Perhaps for a personal confer
unee with Malik. He will preside to
morrow at a special meeting of the
general assembly to hear President
Galo Plaza Lasso of Ecuador.
Move a Trick
Opposition to the Russian peace
feeler came from South Korea and
from Nationalist China.
A spokesman for the government
of President Syngman Rhee, of the
Republic of Korea, said the Russian
move is a "trick.”
Rhee spoke in Pusan today—the
first anniversary of the invasion of
his country by North Korean forces.
He said Koreans would fight on un
til the last Communist is driven
north of the Yalu river.
South Korean spokesmen have
been worried by indications that the
UN might agree to a cease-fire stop- J
ping the fighting somewhere along |
the 38th Parallel and leaving to'
the future any political settlement
on unifying the country.
While the delegates and their
capitals are working on ways and
means to find out what the Russians
mean, Secretary General Trygve Lie
called for ' negotiations for a mili
tory cease-fire” at the "earliest pos
sible date.”
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, June 25 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
108, American Tel. and Tel. 153 '..
Anaconda 38%. Douglas Aircraft
45, General Electric 52%, General
Motors 47>4, Goodyear 79 i. Kenne
cott 73%, Libby, McNeill and Libby
8%, Northern Pacific 38 4, Standard
Oil1 of California 45%, Twentieth
Century Fox 17 i. U. S. Steel 38 s.
Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange
93.68%.
Sales today were 2.400,00') shares.
Averages today were as follow's:
Industrials 245.27, rails 75.15. utili
ties 42.47.
US IS READY
TO CONSIDER
'REAL' TERMS
Must However End Aggres
sion, Restore Peace to
Korean People
By ERNEST B. VACCARO
TULLAHOMA, Term.. June 25—UP*
President Truman said today the
United States is ready to join in a
"real settlement” of the Korean war
"which fully ends the aggression and
restores peace and security."
While Mr. Truman did not so lnbel
it, that was obviously his reply to the
proposal by Jacob A. Malik. Russian
delegate to the UN, for a cease-fire
and withdrawal of troops from the
area of the 38th Parallel#
Mr. Truman, on this first anni
versary of the Communist attack on
South Korea, said the Reds suffered
1,000,000 casualties and have been
thrown back “behind the line they
started from.”
GOP Critics Blistered
The President, in a major Foreign
Policy speech, blistered Republican
critics for "spreading fear and sland
er and lies” and trying to "destroy”
Dean Acheson, whom he called "one
of the greatest secretaries of state
in our history.”
In guarded language, which did
not mention Malik or his proposal
specifically, the President told a
crowd gathered to dedicate a new
$157,500,000 Air Force testing center:
"We are ready to.joln in a peace
settlement in Korea pow as we ha ve
always been. But it must be a real
settlement which fully ends the ag
gression and restores peace and se
curity to the area and to the gal
lant Korean people.
No Rash Action
"In Korea and In the rest of the
world we must be ready "to take any
steps which truly advance us to
ward world peace. But we must
avoid like the plague rash actions
which would take unnecessary risks
of world war or weak actions which
reward aggression."
The President flew here from
Washington to the Arnold Air Force
engineering development center, to
be devoted to the development of
je* propulsion and supersonic flight
power.
» His talk fairly bristled with de
nunciations of Republican support
ers of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s
Korean policy and critics of Ache
son, Secretary of Defense Marshall,
Gen. Omnr Bradley and the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
The MacArthur Policy
Mr. Truman ousted MacArthur
for publicly advocating a broadened
war against the Chinese Commun
ists. MacArthur said his program
wouldn't necessarily bring in Russia.
MacArthur said if the other United
Nations would not join in, this coun
try should "go it alone."
Without naming MacArthur, Mr.
Truman said of those who would
"take a chance” that the ^Soviet Un
ion won’t fight in the Far East:
"They want us to play Russian
roulette with the Foreign Policy of
the United States — and with all
the chambers of the pistols loaded.”
Go It Alone Policy
He continued:
“Unfortunately, it isn’t only the
Kremlin that ha? been trying to sep
arate us from our Allies.
“There are some people in this
country, too, who have been trying
to get us to ‘go it alone.’ There
are people here who have been sow
ing distrust of our Allies and mag
nifying our differences with them.
Some of the people advocating this
policy, he continued, "aren’t en
gaging in honest debate.”
“They are trying to set the peo
ple against the government by
spreading fear and slander and lies,”
the President continued. "They have
attacked the integrity .of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff."
TEN TRAVEL ON
ELLIS AIRLINES
Five passengers arrived on Ellis
Airlines Monday flight with five
traveling on interport.
Arriving from Ketchikan: Mr. and
Mrs. Dibrell, Jim Dibrell.
From Petersburg: E. Armstrong.
From Wrangell: Mr. Boman.