THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,810
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Reds Plod Through Mud for New Offensive
U.S.ISNOT
READY FOR
SHOWDOWN
Gen. Bradley Gives Views
on Red China, Russia,
World War III Threat
WASHINGTON, May 15 — UP) —
Gen. Omar N. Bradley testified to
day the United States is not ready
for a “showdown" with Russia and
should not risk world conflict by
adopting Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s
Korean war proposals.
Making plain he considers Russia
to be this country’s real foe, Brad
ley said MacArthur's proposals for
direct blows at Red China “would
Involve us in the wrong war, at the
wrong place, at the wrong time and
with the wrong enemy.”
Bradley, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, told senators he
knows some critics are “impatient"
with the administration’s plan to
fight a limited war in Korea and are
calling for a “showdown” with the
Soviet Union. Bradley then added:
Military Viewpoint
"From a purely military viewpoint,
this is not desirable. We are not in
the best military position to seek
a showdown, even if it were' the
nation’s desire to forfeit the chances
for peace by precipitating a total
war.”
Bradley also said the joint chiefs—
top military planners of the Army,
Navy and Air Force — believe Mac
Arthur’s proposals would increase
“the risk of ,;:loba! war."
f*v ddulai-etSi. iuj, that th<*y are in
a better position than MacArthur
to assess the risk of general war and
to judge of the country’s military
resources.
Bradley forecast that, some critics
w'ould say, “Why are the Joint
Chiefs of Staff advertising the fact
that we are not militarily in a po
sition to have a showdown” with
Russia.
Capabilities Known
“Our capabilities are not unknown
to the Communists," he went on.
“They are apt students of military
power, and fully realize that al
though we are not prepared to de
liver any ultimatum, we could hurt
them badly if they attacked us or
our friends.
“They also know that with our
potential, and the strength of our
Allies, in the long run they could
not win a war with a United States
that is alert, and continuously pre
pared.”
Global Strategy
Bradley said the administration's
“global strategy is paying off and I
see no reason to let impatience alter
it in the Far East.” Hhen he de
clared:
“Certainly the course of action we
are pursuing has avoided a total
war which could only bring death
and destruction to millions of Amer
icans, both in the United States and
on the battlefield.”
Bradley said MacArthur’s program
—calling for blockading Red China,
bomb Manchurian bases and using
Chinese Nationalist troops — has
" (Continued on Page Two)
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1BSI. Of B«U Syadlegtc, Inc..
TFaSHINGTON. — General Hoyt
Vandenberg, the Nation s No. 1
airman, has sounded a private
warning during talks inside the
Pentagon building that the worst
threat to American cities is not
from Europe but Siberia.
This is a flat contradiction of
General MacArthur's contention
that Russia cannot wage war
against the United States from Si
beria.
"We have heard quite often that
the defense of western Europe is
the defense of the United States,”
Vandenberg warned. "Now that is
true in some phases, but it surely
isn't true of air power, oecause
from bases in Siberia, the Russians
can cover with present Soviet
bombers a much greater area
than can be covered today from
western Europe.”
Undersecretary of Air John Mc
Cone, speaking to the same private
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"Look Out!"
That's what Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall is shouting at
AP Photographer Bill Smith who was taking one last picture as the
general’s WAC driver started away with the automobile door open.
Smith ducked in time. Marshall is leaving the Senate office build
| ing after testifying all day on the probe into the firing of Gen.
i Douglas MacArthur. UP) Wirephoto.
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State Department Giving
I Gui Gid Dope of Alaska
i To Russia, Cain Learns
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AMERICAN
UNITY IS
DEMANDED
Mobilizer Wilson Takes
Rap at Congress-Talks
to Industrialists
WASHINGTON, May l§ _ UPI _
Pleading for American unity. Mo
bilization Director Charles E. Wilson
today decried the “foolishness like
what’s been going on up on Capitol
Hill, where some of our leading gen
erals are on the pan.”
Wilson told the 1951 Industry
Armed Forces conference that
American squabbling over military
and foreign policy ‘ must certainly
be wonderful music to the ears of
the Russians.”
Helping Communists
He spoke of the possibility that
publication of documents revealed
in congressional hearings might help
the Communist enemy in decoding
secret messages.
The mobilization chief said he has
reached the conclusion that the na
tion’s mobilization “Isn’t going to be
as long a job as I had thought—if
we have some unity in this country.”
Attainment of unity, he said
might mean “cutting out some ol
the foolishness like what’s going on
up on Capitol Hill.”
Addressing 1,000 industrialists, re
presenting six national associations
of military contractors, Wilson said:
Music to Russians
“What you people are doing isn’t
music to Russian ears."
Wilson predicted that the indi
cated speed of rearmament probably
will mean increasing business dis
location in the last half of this
year and early next. But the prob
lems should taper off about a year
from now, he said.
The mobilizer punched his finger
at the industry group to emphasize
this enjoinder: “Don’t hoard."
Wilson said it could be “almost
fatal" to the munitions effort if in
dustry piles up big idle stocks of
scarce materials.
Fred Jensen of Tacoma Is regis
tered at the Gastineau Hotel.
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WASHINGTON, May 15 — (A>) —
Senator Cain (R-Wash) says the
State Department has confirmed
that it is providing Russia with in
formation on Alaska — but it isn’t
what you'd describe as up-to-date
dope.
It’s all information and records
on the Territory prior to 1867.
Cain told a Seattle Post-Intel
ligencer correspondent about it. The
senator had asked the State De
partment about a report that Soviet
Russia was requesting and getting
the information.
A State Department official re
plied that the United States is obli
gated under the convention of 1867,
under winch Alaska was purchased.
The official said the records are
micro-film copies of records of the
Russian-American Company for the
period 1802-1867.
He said the materials included
the following papers:
Letters received by the governors
general (of Alaska) 1802-67; letters
sent by them; logs of Russian-Amer
ican Co. ships 1853-67; journals of
exploring expeditions, 1842-64.
Cain told the reporter the last
item interested him particularly be
cause "no doubt the Russians ex
plored Alaska rather thoroughly
during the more than half century
they occupied and exploited it.”
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Wednesday.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Denali scheduled to arrive from
westward Sunday 'southbound.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning i
In Juneau — Maximum,
50; minimum. 44.
At Airport — Maximum,
50; minimum, 43.
FORECAST
Variable cloudiness with
some very light showers to
night and Wednesday. Low
est temperature tonight
' about 44 degrees. Highest
Wednesday near 54.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — .12 inches;
Since May 1 — 1.20 inches;
Since July 1 — 69.25 inches.
At Airport — .21 inches;
Since May 1 — .74 inches;
Since July 1 — 40.01 inches.
BROWN IS
INDICTED,
TAX CASE
Arrainged in Federal Court
at Anchorage on Em
bezzlement Charge
ANCHORAGE. Alaska, May 15—
— Archie L. Brown, former depu
ty tax collector for the Territorial
Tax Office at Anchorage, was ar
raigned yesterday in Third District
Court on a charge of embezzlement.
Brown was accused of misappro
priating *4,350 in Territorial funds
between March 12 and August 28 of
1948. The charges were contained
in an indictment returned by a
'rand jury Feb. 27.
The indictment was kept secret
until Brown was arrested and re
turned here for prosecution. A war
rant was served on him in Atlanta,
Ga. He was returned here over the
weekend from Seattle in custody of
Deputy Erwin Metcalif of Seward.
Brown is scheduled to appear in
District Court May 21 to enter a
plea. His bond, originally *5,000,
was reduced'to $2,500.
Brown was deputy tax collector
here about three years before re
signing in May of 1949 under fire.
Attorney General J. Gerald Williams
claimed at the time Brown admitted
borrowing Territorial funds and that
the borrowing resulted in a $559
shortage of accounts.
A grand jury vindicated Brown
in October of 1949 after conducting^
an investigation of alleged irregu
larities in the tax office.
Williams later criticized the grand
jury stand. Testifying before the
Alaska Senate last March 23. he
said the Brown case was an illus
tration of grand jury difficulties
with what “I considered an iron
clad case.”
Williams said the tax commis
sioner had found what appeared to
be an additional shortage of $4,350
on Brown’s book. The Territory ex
pects to collect the money from the
company that bonded Brown, the
attorney general said.
U. S. DOES NOT
UNDERSTAND
SAYS GENERAL
NEW YORK, May 15, — UR—
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway says
Americans do not seem to under
stand the issue in Korea.
In a letter to St. Bartholomew’s
Protestant Episcopal Church here,
of which he is a member, the Far
Eastern Commander wrote:
“Would God the American peo
ple might see a full length movie
of current events here in their
true setting. It would, I think,
make crystal clear the issue for
which their sons fight and are con
tent to fight. Yet America seems
not to know.
Hundreds of thousands of* poor
people, the old, infirm, infants, the
sick, fleeing night and day across
country, over the ice of frozen
streams, in temperature at zero, no
shelter at night but that obtained
from huddling together and from
such of their belongings as are on
their backs or ox or small two
wheeled carts, driven to all this by
one seemingly overpowering fear,
the fear of government by Com
munists.
“Is not the issue truly whether
some day our women, our babies,
our sick and our aged are to be
driven forth by Asiatic masters, or
now while yet there's time, this
America and our allies may ex
tinguish all petty issues and unite
with all they have to destroy the
greatest peril we have ever known.”
FROM PORTLAND
A. J. McKinney of Portland is
at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM KETCHIKAN
Harold Sherwin of Ketchikan' is
at the Gastineau Hotel.
FROM BIG DELTA
Lt. Col. and Mrs. D. Woolly ol
Big Delta are stopping at the Bai>
anof Hotel. t M
Allies Probe North of Seoul
United Nations tank patrol rolls down the main street of rubble-strewn Uljonbu after a search for
enemy forces hortb of Seoul on Korea's western front. A similar Unk patrol was the object of a Red
genade attack In Uljonbu. (#1 Wirephoto. __
CRACKDOWN
ON PROFITS
NOW ASKED
r- I
Johnston Says There Are
Six Major Threats to
Sound Dollar
By FRANK O’BRIEN
WASHINGTON, May 15 — (A*! —
Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston
asked today for powers to enforce a
national crackdown on spiraling
profits — ranging from the barn
yard to the union bargaining room
and industrial price sheets.
He told the Senate Banking com
mittee in prepared testimony there
are six major threats to a sound
dollar. He laid down a six point pro
gram for flattening the inflation
spiral. “Unless we have a stabilized
economy, unless we hold inflation
in check,” he declared, "we cannot
mount the defense effort we need.”
Johnston called for removal of one
price ceiling — the $10,000 limit on
fines which can be assessed against
violators of the Defense Production
Act. Economic mobilization author
ity stems from this act. Johnston
called the $10,000 maximum fine “an
invitation to try to get away with
bigger pickings ''
JOhnston was called before the
committee In behalf of the admin
istration’s request for extension and
broadening of the Production Act.
It expires June 30.
Farm, industrial and landlord
earnings must all be levelled off
together, Johnston said, if “we are
to have a completely rounded, inte
grated, sensible economical stabiliz
ation program.”
The threats to the sound dollar
which Johnston outlined include:
1. The expected injection of one
billion dollars weekly into the coun
try’s economic bloodstream when
defense spending goes into high
gear later this year.
2. “Milk-it-dry” profits, price
and wage demands.
3. Rising food prices.
He proposed that Congress pro
vide six remedies, including:
“Pay-as-we-go” taxation to pump
spending money out of circulation.
2. Pay-as-we-go credit policies’
to avoid credit which “merely al
lows more people and more busi
nesses to bid for a tightening sup
ply of goods ...”
3. Increased savings — “income
not spent does not put pressure on
prices ...”
FROM SITKA
Clyde C. Franks of Sitka is reg
istered at the Baranof Hotel.
KETCHIKAN VISITOR
Jack W. Brounty of Ketchikan is
a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM ELMENDORF
R. S. Thompson of Elmendorf
Field is at the Baranof Hotel.
LOGAN BACK
Hugh A. Logan of Glendale, Cal
| ifornla who has been bear hunting
for several days, is back at the
I Baranof Hotel.
I J. S. Barnett of Seattle is stop
| ping at the Baranof Hotel.
Faces Fifth Operation
Little cancer victim Sandra Sue Hundley, 4, cuddles her doll and
smiles with her remaining eye before going to a hospital for a fifth
operation. Doctors say it is a “last chance” effort to save her life.
The cancer was discovered early last year as a growth on her right
temple. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hundley of San Diego, Calif., parents of
the blue eyed, doll-like child, have asked the public to pray for her.
OP) Wirephoto.
WANTS QUERY
ALLEGED NAVY
C0MMIE CELL
WASHINGTON, May 15 — l/fl -
Senator Bridges (R-NH) said today
he has asked the House UnAmerican
Activities committee to investigate
charges that a Communist cell has
been set up in the Portsmouth, N. H„
Navy yard.
A spokesman for Bridges said the
charges have been investigated by
various Federal agencies since 1947,
but so far as he knows none of
them has ever made a public report
of its findings.
He said the inquiries were made
by the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion. the Senate Armed Services
committee and the Navy Depart
ment.
Bridges’ request to the House
committee was made in response to
demands by the New Hampshire and
Maine American Legion depart
ments for a new inquiry.
STOCK 0UGTATI0N5
NEW YORK, May 15 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
106‘4, American Tel. and Tel. 154%,
Anaconda 42, Douglas Aircraft 97%,
General Electric 54%, General Mot
ors 50. Goodyear 76 %, Kennecott
72%, Standard Oil of California
46%. Twentieth Century Fox 20%,
U. S. Steel 43%, Pound $2.80%,
Canadian Exchange 94.
Sales today were 2,020,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 252.08, rails 80.72, utili
ties 42.35.
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NAVY LOWERS
CASUALTIES
IN COLLISION
NORFOLK, Va., May 15 —UPI—
The Navy today postponed attempts
to enter four compartments of the
fire-ravaged seaplane tender Val
cour. It revised downward the num
ber of known dead in yesterday's col
lision between the vessel and a col
lier.
Atlantic Fleet headquarters an
nounced the following official fig
ures: 1 known dead, 5 missing and
presumed dead, and 19 hospitalized.
The headquarters announcement
said the latest check showed 149
enlisted men accounted for in addi
tion to those on the casualty list
Also accounted for were the 14 of
ficers aboard the Valcour including
two hospitalized. It explained that
last night’s announcement of 11
known dead was based on “an esti
mate" that nine bodies were in the
engine room.
It had been planned to send sal
vage experts into the four spaces
early today, but it was decided, a
spokesman said, to postpone such
action until after the ship had off
loaded her gasoline and ammuni
tion.
The ship first will discharge the
remaining gasoline of the more than
70,000 gallons aboard when the Val
cour and the S.S. Thomas Tracj
collided some five miles east of Cape
Henry.
A gaping hole in the bow and
evidence of severe fire damage could
be seen aboard the Tracy when she
docked late yesterday under her own
power at Newport News. But there
were no serious injuries to crewmen
BIG BUILDUP
OF CHINESE
IS REPORTED
Large Units of Communists
Are Forming in Rain
Drenched Sections
By Associated Press
Rain-drenched Chinese troops
plodded south through Central
Korean mud today in their buildup
for a new offensive.
Spearheads of a growing Red force
facing the center of the 100-mile
UN line were reported 12 miles south
of the 38th Parallel.
UN patrols spotted Communists
In units of 500 or 600 slogging
through the hills east of Kapyong.
The U. S. 8th Army did not indi
cate how close they were to UN
lines.
But no fighting was reported from
this area. Clashes elsewhere on the
rainswept battle line were between
groups of 100 or 200.
The 8th Army said the Reds east
of Kapyong were south of the Puk
han river. This would put them 35
to 40 miles northeast of Seoul and
roughly 15 miles northwest of Hong
chon, UN base on the Central front.
24-Iiour Warning
An Allied officer said well pro
tected UN positions and restless pa
trols probably would insure about
24 hours warning before the Chinese
hit in strength.
A Central front briefing officer
said the weather probably would
speed up the expected Red offensive
about two days. The strike generally
is expected next week.
‘This is their meat,” one officer
commented. “The Chinese can do a
lot of moving under these clouds
without being seen from the air.
They are undoubtedly taking advan
tage of It."
Bomb Supply Center
B-29s were out Tuesday despite
| heavy weather. They bombed the
Sariwon supply center, above the
Western front, by radar.
On the Western front 10 Allitd
soldiers — eight Americans and two
Turks — returned to their own lines
after being released by Chinese.
They were taken prisoner April 25
in the Reds’ first spring offensive.
AP Correspondent John Randolph
said all told of comparatively good
treatment by their captors. They
said they were told never again to
fight the Chinese, and released.
Fighting Washed Out
Rain washed out most fighting
Tuesday.
An 8th Army briefing officer said
1,600 Communists were killed or
wounded Monday.
The ‘‘great debate" in Korea
among UN officers centers around
the question whether the Reds have
mustered enough men and equip
ment to drive the Allied forces into
the sea. Some officers believe they
have. Others say the Chinese never
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CHINESE IN
ACTION NOW,
FRONT LINES
By Associated Press
Chinese Communist troops were
reported tonight to be crossing two
rivers on the rainy Central Korean
front around Chunchon in front of
strong U. S. positions.
An American officer, however,
said flatly that the expected Chi
nese offensive had not begun, a
pooled field dispatch reported.
The dispatch said unknown num
bers of Chinese Reds crossed the
Pukhan river, southwest of Chun
chon and reached high ground Just
south of the river.
Other Communists have crossed
the Choyang, northeast of Chun
chun, and moved to the southeast of
that ruined city, where clashes with
American troops were reported.
The American officer said he did
not expect a Chinese offensive to
start tonight, but predicted prelim
inary probing attacks at various
points in the Chunchon area. CJiun
chun is 45 miles northeast of Seoul.