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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,903____JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1951___MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS I'llK E PEN PEN rS
Marshall Testifies On Mac Arthur’s Views
ART BURKE IS
DROWNED WHEN
BOAHAPSIZES
A Sunday afternoon outing turn
ed into tragedy when a boat cap
sized at the entrance of Auk Bay
and drowned Art Burke, manager of
the Home Grocery here.
Burke, with Art Walther, truck
driver of the Home Grocery, was
traveling in a 14-foot boat powered
by a 16-horsepower outboard motor
from Tee Harbor to Auk Bay, made
a turn not far from Jack Popejoy
cabin on the beach and the boat
capsized. Both men .dressed in heavy
clothing were thrown into the water
but Walther floated on his back
reached Burke and held him up,
while waiting to be picked up.
Many persons along the beach
were attracted by the high pitcher
whine of the motor as the boat cap
sized. Reynolds Young and Larn
Parker who were at Frank Fields
cabin used John Dougherty's boa
and motor to pick up the pair, whe
had been in the water about eight
or ten minutes when they were
reacnea.
Upon arrival at the beach Dr
Grace Field administered first aid
Dr. C. C. Carter was notified ant
rushed out from Juneau with an
inhalator. Meantime a small group of
teen agers left their outing at Auk
Bay recreation area to assist in ai
unsuccessful revival attempt. Phy
sicians and rescuers today praised
the untiring efforts in administer
ing artificial respiration by six oi
seven boys and girls who displayec
excellent training in the technique
Jack Popejoy brought the cap
sized boat to shore.
Burke is survived by his wife,
Margaret, who is a bookkeeper at
the Hr me Grocery.
Jintr survivors are ms motner.
Mrs. Mary Burke of Juneau, a sis
ter, Mrs. E. E. Smith of Skagway
and an aunt, Mrs. Tillie Janiksela
of Juneau.
Burke was born at Sumdum, Jan
2, 1912, served in World iVar II, was
a member of the Pioneers and the
Elks. He was married to Margaret
Nelson, April 11, 1936. They have
no children.
Funeral services will be held hert
Wednesday. A detailed announce
ment will be made tomorrow.
NINE CARRIED ON
ELLIS AIRLINES
Nine passengers traveled on Elli
Airlines Monday flight with sever
arriving in Juneau and two carrier
on interport.
Arriving from Ketchikan: Art O
Baade, John M. Short.
From Wrangell: Mr. Everson, Mr
Myesato, Mr. Hammer, Mr. Larsen
From Petersburg: Art Uggen.
SOROPTIMISTS ARE WORKINf
ON FIBBER McGEE SAL1
Annual Fibber McGee Closet Salt
announced by Soroptim'.sts for Ma
12 is foremost activity of club mem
bers during this week.
Olive Trower is chairman of th<
sale which will be held in th‘
American Legion Dugout Saturda.
from 1 until 5 p.m.
As last year, the sale affords pe<
pie who send packages abroad a>
excellent opportunity to make pur
chases. There will be clothing fc
both men and women on sale —
and all will be in good condition.
The Washingior
Merry-Go-Rounc1
By DREW PEARSON
(CoDTrtcht. 1951. 09 Bell Syndicate. Inr
MAsHINGTON. — Of the Ion
list of American military hero
since 1776, the two whose lives art
most identical .are Gen. Dougla:
MacArthur and Civil War Gen
B. McClellan. Both had famou.
fathers, both ranked high in theii
classes at West Point, both wer<
official observers of Russian wart
both rowed with the President o
the United States and both hat
the president pay them the hono
of making long trips to confer witl
them near the field of battle.
General McClellan, a Democrat
differed with homely and none-too
popular Abraham Lincoln of Illin
ois, a Republican. General Mac
Arthur’s dispute is with an unpop
ular Democratic President from
Missouri.
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Long Toms "Serenade" Reds
Smoke and llame belch from muz/.les of (he big 155 mm. Yank cannons on the western Korean front
as Allied artillery pours a continuous round of fire inlo enemy positions. (/PI Wirephoto.
LIMITED
ATTACKS
IN KOREA
United Nations Forces Ex
tend Battle Line in
Caution; Mcves
By Associated Press
United Nations forces extended
)oth anchors of their Korean battle
ine today — northwest of Seoul and
lorth of the 38th Parallel around
tnje in the east. These were cau
ious, limited attacks.
South Korean troops jabbed care
fully northwest of their battered
■apital against North Korean troops
ho had been told by one of their
officers that there would be no big
•ffensive because “the war is about
iver.”
Allied intelligence officers offered
io interpretation of the statement,
mt presumably the North Korean
fficer meant the war had reached
1 stalemate, with no victory-goal
ffensive expected from either side.
Despite constant Allied air pun
shment, the Reds kept their tran s
>ort rolling south. Far Eastern Air
'orce men called it ah all out Red
ttempt to resupply the Communist
ivisions whose spring offensive had
fizzled.
In the air war the Communists
ried out night fighting jets. Three
if these presumably new types of
^art made unsuccessful passes at s
one UN B-26 before dawn Sunday.
On the ground the Reds offeree
nly spotty opposition to UN force*
logging back over the same ground
hat Communists had taken in their
ine-day offensive that began April
2 and cost them an estimated 75.00C
.isualties.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof fr'om Seattle due to ar- i
ive at 4 a.m. Tuesday.
Princess Louise from Vancouver i
sheduled to arrive Tuesday after
coon or evening.
Denali scheduled to sail fron
eattle Friday.
WFATIIEIt REPORT «
c Temperature for 24-Hour Period •
c ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
» In Juneau — Maximum, «
> 54; minimum, 38. e
> At Airport — Maximum, *
> 55; minimum. 37. *
| » FORECAST «
» Mostly fair tonight with *
> lowest temperature near 42 «
i degrees. Considerable cloud- «
• iness and cooler Tuesday •
) with highest temperature »
1 • near 58 degrees. a
« PRECIPITATION a
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today • |
• City of Juneau — .06 inches; •
• Since May 1 — .36 inches; •
Since July 1 — 68.30 inches, t
• At Airport — .04 inches; •
» Since May 1 — .16 inches; •
> Since July 1 — 39.43 inches. •
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End of Day's Work
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Two F9F Panther jet planes swing over the flight deck of their
mother ship, the carrier USS Princeton, off the Korean coast—home
ward bound after an air strike at Communist forces on the front.
UN planes maintain round-the-clock operations against enemy troops
and supplies in close support of ground troops. U. S. Navy Photo via
(/PI Wircphoto.
COLD STORAGE TIEUP
5ETILEDHERE TODAY
An agreement for all Southeast
Alaska ports between the Inter
national Warehousemen’s Union,
[LWU, and the cold storage employ
ers were reached here at 10 o’clock
,his morning when Ketchikan was
the last to sign the contract, Wallis
George, president of the Juneau
Cold Storage plant, announced to
day.
The previous wage for workers of
$1.82 u, per hour has been increased
the allowable 10 per cent, effective
is of April 1. A petition is being
’orwarded to the Wage Stabilization
Board for $2.25 an hour, plus five
cents an hour welfare, which if ap
proved, is to be retroactive to
\pril 1.
With the exception of Ketchikan,
ill ports were open and handling
fish at 8 o’clock this morning. There
were approximately 75,000 pounds of
fish to be handled at the Juneau
Cold Storage plant here. Ketchikan
is to be operating by tomorrow.
FROM PORTLAND
William Crooks and Robert John
-,on of Portland, Oregon, are in
Juneau for a few days conferring
with FHA director Clinton C. Sta
: pies regarding a housing project
n Anchorage. They are at the Bar
anof Hotel.
FROM SEWARD
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Smith and
wo children from Seward are stay
ing at the Hotel Juneau. Smith <s
with the Fish and Wildlife Service.
200 KILLED IN
EARTHQUAKE
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador,
May 7 —W— At least 200 persons
were reported killed In an earth
quake yesterday in the cities of Ju
cuapa and Chinameca. ,
Jucuapa is about 90 miles and
Chinameca about 92 miles east of
this capital. Jucuapa has a popula
tion of about 12,000 and Chinameca
of about 17.000.
The strong quakes, which began
at 5 p.m. yesterday, destroyed many
homes and public buildings. Many
persons were said to have been bur
ied in ruins. The exact number of
dead is not yet known, but author
ities estimated about 200 were bur
ied in the debris.
Nearby towns, Neuva Guadalupe.
Santiago de Maria, Usulutan and
Caserios, §ast of the Lempa river,
also suffered great damage.
The Red Cross dispatched doctors
and medicine to the scene and pub
lic works ministry workmen started
clearing blocked roads.
All the towns are situated in the
neighborhood of San Miguel vol
cano, but it did not erupt. The quake
was attributed to underground ac
tivity of the volcano, however.
Death Toll 1,000
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador,
May 7 —UTl— The government late
today said that yesterday’s earth
quake in Jucuapa took a toll of ap
proximately 1,000 lives. Jucuapa is
about 90 miles east of San Salvador.
JUNEAU ILWU
IS LOSER IN
DAMAGE CASE
Circuit Court of Appeals
Upholds $750,000 Claim
by Spruce Corporation
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 — IJt—
The Ninth U. S. Circuit Court of
Appeals today upheld a $750,000
damage judgment against the Inter
national Longshoremen’s and Ware
housemen’s Union and its Local 16
at Juneau, Alaska.
The judgment was handed down
by District Judge George W. Folta
at Juneau May 20, 1949. The Jun
eau Spruce Corporation had claim
ed damages under the Taft-Hartley
Act.
The damage grew out of jurisdic
tional dispute between the ILWU
and the International Woodworkers
of America, Local M-271, at Juneau.
The corporation said it had a col
lective bargaining contract with the
woodworkers for work at Its mill and
retail yards at Juneau.
The District Court found that the
ILWU used picketing and coercive
tactics between April 10, 1948, and
July 19, 1948, to force a work stop
page, which closed its mill.
The corporation also charged that
the ILWU longshoremen would not
unload its lumber at ports in the
Ur^ted States and Canada,
Norman Leonard, attorney for the
ILWU, said he would petition the
. cnrt for a rehearing of today's de
cision. If the request is refused he
said he would carry the case to the
U. S. Supreme Court.
The ILWU is now an independent
union. It was ousted from the CIO
some time ago on charges of Com
munist leanings.
ALASKA PLANS
BIG WELCOME
FOR WARREN
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 7 —UP!
—Alaska Is preparing to go all-out
in welcoming Republican Governor
Warren of California later thi.
month.
Warren is scheduled to address
commencement exercises May 21 al
the nearby University of Alaska.
Democratic Gov. Ernest Gruening,
Gen. William E. Kepner, commander
in chief of Alaska, and a host ol
Territorial, Federal and municipal
officials plan to meet the Warren
plane when it makes scheduled
stops at Juneau, Anchorage and
Fairbanks.
Governor Warren will be guest ol
honor at a gigantic civic dinner tc
be held Sunday, May 20, under
sponsorship of the City of Fairbanks
A fishing trip is being planned foi
him a Juneau and sighseeing tripf
are being raranged at each stopover.
The Board of Regents of the Uni
versity , University President Dr.
Terris Moore and Governor Gruen
ing will be the welcoming party
when the Warren plane arrives
here.
Residents from all over the Ter
ritory will gather here to listen to
his address.
Reeve Aleutian Airways today
announced that a chartered DC-3
transport plane would bring a load
of dignitaries from the Anchorage
area. Other planes will bring resi
dents from many scattered parts of
the Territory.
THREE TRAINMEN
KILLED IN WRECK
NEAR VANCOUVER
VANCOUVER, B. C„ May 7 —l^t—
Three railwaymen were killed yes
terday when the engine and 14 cars
of a Canadian Pacific railway
freight train left the rails about 100
miles northeast of here.
R. J. Purdie, 55, the engineer,
Vernon O. Mobley, 25, the fireman,
and Henry Vickers, 55 a trainman,
were killed.
At Ease!
Gen. Douglas MacArthur lines up his pipe for a puff during a brief I
interlude in Senate hearing in Washington, when doors were opened
for photographers.. The break came after a morning of testimony
from the general before the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed
Services committees on far eastern policies. (/PI Wirephoto.
U LS. TROOPS
IN ICELAND;
GO VIA AIR
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, May 7 —
(J)—A contingent of American troop
arrived^by air today at Keflavil
Airport, 30 miles from this capital
for the announced purpose of aid
ing Iceland’s defense under the
North Atlantic Alliance. The num
ber of troops was not announced.
In Washington, defense official?
told reporters the initial detach
ment consisted of about 200 mer
under the command of Brig. Gen
Edward John McGaw of Philadel
phia.
(In European capitals, the opin
ion was expressed that it was onl.\
a small contingent of American
troops, probably technicians for tin
most part, sent to survey possible
air bases in the northern Atlanta
outpost of western defenses).
The arrival of the troops appar
ently was no surprise to the peopl(
of this old island republic, since i'
was generally known that negotia
►ions had been under way for some
ime. Nevertheless, the announce
rent of the arrival was published
in extra editions of Reykjavik’,
lewspapers.
The government statement threv
little light on the mission of th(
Americans.
During World War II Iceland wa
major assembly point for convoy
o Russia.
Members of parliament’s Demo
cratic parties were consulted, the
government said, and it was agreec
that now was the time to ask for
defense forces. This island, with an
area of 39,758 square miles and a
population of only 140,000, has nc
Army, Navy, Coast Guard or Air
Force of its own.
Of the 52 members of parliament,
43 supported the government in it-?
request. The nine Communist mem
bers of parliament were not con
sulted.
Iceland is the second North At
lantic island for which the United
States has assumed defense resiion
sibilities. An agreement for the mu
tual defense of Grefcnland was nego
tiated with Denmark only a few
days ago.
In Washington, defense official?
said the overall command of Ice
land’s defense fall under Adm. Wil
liam Fechteler as commander in
chief of the Atlantic fleet and chief
of the north ocean region of the
Atlantic Alliance.
Gen. McGaw, the leader of the
initial force, served as artillery com
mander of the 63rd infantry di
vision in Europe during World War
II. Later he was with the 11th air
borne division in Japan.
i
BOMBER
CRASHES;
23 DEADj
Giant B-36 Comes Down
in Flames, Explodes
at Landing
ALBUQUERQUE. May 7
A giant B-36 bomber crashed in
flames as it tried to land at Kirt
land Air Force base ye lerday, kill
ing 23 airmen. The explo ion made
he base resemble a Junkyard.
It was the fifth and worst E-3K
•rash since the Air Force put the
139-ton, six engined bomber the
world’s largest into operation in
August, 1946. Tlie toll of 23 dead if
just three less than the combined
lealhs in the other four.
Col. Perry G. Griffith, Kirtlam
fommander, said the flaming wreck
age “looked like a burning oil field
Flames shot up almost 20 feet it
the air.”
"I didn’t want to look,” .-.aid L
William 8. Knipple. “I turned nr
back.” Knipple is one of the thn
nembers of the 188th Fightei
Squadron who watched the crash.
The two survivor- were in critical
condition at Sandia Special Wea
pons base hospital. Sandia adjoin:
iirtland.
Twemy-two men were killed out
right. The 23rd died at Sandia :
few minutes later. The bomber, al
most as long as a city block, ltac
•just finished a three-hour High
from Carswell Air Force base. For
Worth, Tex.
Winds in excess of 40 mi!< a'
hour stirred up a billowing and
storm and fanned the flames quick
y to a parked C-54 Air Force trap
port and a small, private cargc
plane.
Minutes before, tne bomber cau
ed window- to rattle and walls t(
vibrate by roaring not over 400 fee
above the city.
STOCK OUCiATiOKS
NEW YORK, May 7 — Clo-ill
quotation of Alaska Juneau mini
stock today is 2 i, American Cs
113 Hi, American Tel. and Tel. 156
Anaconda 43. Douglas Aircraft 100
General Electric 55 V General Mo;
ors 53 >4, Goodyear 781 _•, Kennecot
7714, Libby. McNeill and Libby 9 'a
Northern Pacific 37 Standard O
of California 49T„. Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 21. U. S. Steel 45’-. Poun
$2.80.'t, Canadian Exchange 94.06
Sales today were 1.580 000 share
Averages today were as follow
Industrials 261 23, rails 84.47. utili
ties 42.37,
SECRETARY
OF DEFENSE
TESTIFYING
Contends General's Pro
posals Would Risk All
Out War with Soviets
WASHINGTON, May 7 — f/W —
Secretary of Defense Marshall con
tended to senators today that Gen.
Douglas MacArthur’s Korean war
proposals would risk "nn all-out war
with the Soviet Union,"
But under question from Senator
Russell (D-Ga>, Marshall said this
country is now "discus: ing” with
other nations one of the deposed
Far Eastern commander's recom
mendations, a naval blockade of
Red China. He added: "We have
not brought the issue up ns a formal
proposition for them to refuse,"
Replying to MacArthur's attacks
on the administration’s Far Eastern
policies, Marshall also said: i
No seating of Kens
1. The Truman administration's
unwavering policy is to deny Na
tionalist-held Formosa to the Chi
nese Communists and to oppose
seating of the Reds in the United
Nations.
2. A Jan. 12 memorandum of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, which Mac
Arthur contended supported his
proposals for fighting the Korean
war by direct action against Com
munist China, was drafted for use
if American troops had to withdraw
from Korea.
3. 'The memorandum was dis
carded when it became apparent
that American troop; had turned
the tide of battle.
' Trcops Turn Hattie Tide
4. The memorandum contained
16 courses of recommended action,
only lour of which were quoted by
MacArthur in his testimony last
week to senators inquiring into his
dismissal as Far Eastern commander
and policy dispute involved in it.
'6. MacArthur was fired because
of "basic differences of judgment"
not only with the President, but the
Chiefs of Staff and Marshall him
self.
Conference By Truman
While Marshall was defending ad- .
ministration policies before the sen
ator ;, President Truman went over
MacArthur’s testimony with his
congressional leaders at the White
House.
Tonight at 7:30 (PDT) the Presi
dent is to deliver a major Foreign
Policy address at a Civil Defense
dinner.
House Speaker Rayburn told
White House reporters that the
MacArthur issue came up at Mr.
i’ruman's regular Monday morning
'(inference with his legislative lieu
enants.
All-Out World Conflict
Testifying at a closed session with
his "combed" testimony made pub
ic later, Marshall said MacArthur’s
jlan would risk an all-out world
•onfllct "even at the expense of los
ng our Allies and wrecking the
•oalition of free peoples throughout
he world.”
MacArthur has proposed intensi
fication of the economic squeeze
igainst Red China, blockade of its
coasts, air operations over Man
nuna and use of Chinese National
's troops from Formosa.
MacArthur’s Plans
Marshall said MacArthur “would
uve us, on our own initiative, car
•y the conflict beyond Korea against
he mainland of Communist China,
xith from the sea and from the air.
"He would have us accept the risk
if involvement not only in extension
if the war with Red China, but in
in all-out war with the Soviet Un
on.” the defense secretary said,
idduig:
•He 'MacArthur* would have us
lo this even though the effects of
uch action might expose western
:urope to attack by the millions of
soviet troops poised in middle and
eastern Efcope.”
MacArthur had argued that his
proposals ought to be acceptable to
ither members of the United Na
ions. But he said that if they were
lot, the United States should "go it
i lone.”
MacArthur contended, too, that
he moves he advocated would not
nvolve any greater risk of Russian
•ntry into war than had the first
American troops intervention m
iorea.
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