THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
t “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE T1MST
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,821
JUNEAU, ALASKA. MONDAY, MAY 28, 1951
iMEMiiKK Associated press
PRICE TEN CENTS
U.N. Troops Take Big Bag Reds As Prisoners
IS AGAINST
BOMBING OF
RED BASES
Gen. Vandenberg Says Air
Force Now Operating
on ''Shoestring”
WASHINGTON, May 28 — UP) —
• Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg said today
the United States is operating with
a "shoe string Air Force and car.
not afford now to adopt Gen. Doug
las MacArthur’s proposed s.rategy
of bombing Red ba*-es in Manchuria.
Testifying at the Senate inquiry
into MacArthur’s dismissal Vanden
berg also said he believes there arc
"reasonable chances” of getting a
negotiated peace In Korea without
such bombing.
Vandenberg, the Air Force Chiel
of Staff, said he believes if the ful
power of the U. S. Air Force were
thrown into the balance in Korea
“there would be a good chance of
forcing them (Chinese Reds) to ne
gotiate.”
Big Force Required
But he contended it would take
the full weight of the Air Force to
accomplish this, and the Air Force
cannot afford to do it lest it be
called upon to meet a Russian at
tack elsewhere.
MacArthur had contended no ma
terial increase in air strength al-‘
ready assigned to the Far East would
be needed to carry out his plan of
bombing Manchuria. J*
Asserting that the U. S. Air Force
remains the single largest deterrent
to any Russian attack that might
start World War III, Vandenber;
said he thinks the fighting in Kore i
can be halted without all-out use
of air there. He added:
Air Force Supreme
‘T believe that there are reason
able chances of success in achieving
a negotiated peace without endang
ering that one potential that we
have, which has kept the peace so
far, which is the United States Air
Force.”
Vandenberg said he concurred in
the orders to MacArthur not to j
bomb north of the Yalu river bound- i
ary between Korea and Manchuria, j
Then Vandenberg added:
"While I was and am today against
bombing across the Yalu, it does not
mean by any stretch of the imag
ination that I might not be for it
tomorrow, a month from now, or
six months from now.”
Vandenberg completed his first
day of testimony at 11:30 a.m. and
will return tomorrow.
i MacArthur’s Proposal
MacArthur urged the bombing of
Chinese Red supply bases and troop
concentrations in Manchurcia as an
effective way to carry the war to
the Communists and avoid a “bloody
stalemate” in Korea. It was his pub
lic advocacy of this. strategy, plus
a naval and economic blockade of
Red China and use of Chinese Na
tionalists troops, that led Presiden
Truman to dismiss him April 11
from his Far Eastern commands.
Vandenberg, testifying at the in
quiry into MacArthur’s dismissal
also told the senators:
1. The Russian-built MIG-15
fighter plane used by the Chinese
Communists has a jet engine “sup
erior to any we have.” He said he
surmised it was'developed with the
aid of German technicians.
2. The Russians now have the
"capability” for mass production of
first rate aircraft.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. oy Bell Byaolc-le. Inc.
WAsHINGTON.—Stuart Syming
ton, the Truman trouble-shooter,
has made a good start toward
cleaning the barnacles from the
politics-ridden Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation. He may not know
it, however, but the most scandal
ous case in his files involves one
of the major railroads of the Uni
ted States and a member of the
Roosevelt cabinet.
It also involves some of the worst
wire-pulling and deliberate decep
tion which this observer has ever
seen in Washington.
The railroad is the Baltimore
and Ohio, which borrowed $87,000,
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Rescued Yanks
Grimy Second Division soldiers stand in front of tank that rescued
them on Koreans east-central front after they had been cut off by
Chinese Reds for six days. In group (left to right) are: Pfc. V.
Cidoni, Brooklyn: Cpl. E. Meeks, Belton, -S. C.; and Cpl. G. Tuttle,
Tdeveland, Ohio. Hear (left- to right) : Pfc. James Fiore, Coats
ville, Pa.; Cpl. James Chrb|fosen, Sacramento, Cal.; I.icut. Wm. Bal
lant, St. Cluinmlle, Obj£*: Pvt. .Joe Plessis, JBiddleford, Me., and
Pfc. R. O’Dell, CjJss Cihr^Mieh. (JW Wirephoto. J
I BPWC
iennia!
jh Monday
Ju---—.. ..- .. ...
When 75 people gathered at the
opening banquet of tire Second Al
aska Federation Cohvention of Bus
iness and Professional Women's
Clubs Saturday night in the Bar
anof Gold room, BPW members
and guests' were impressed by the
fact that the convention was a
pretty important affair.
There had been registration dur
ing Saturday afternoon of visiting
delegates and board members, of
Juneau officers, delegates and al
ternates.
The Baranof hotel is headquai -
ters for the biennial convention
that will continue its meetings
through tonight and end with a
pcstconvention meeting Tuesday
morning.
The banquet introduced td the
club members and visitors Mrs.
Cecilia P. Galey, national legisla
tive chairman, and representative
of the national organization at the
convention, and Miss Ruth McGrew,
president of the Alaska federation
BPWC. Mrs. Frances B. Paul, sec
ond vice president of the Alaska
Federation, is convention chairman,
and was also toastmistress at the
banquet Saturday. Miss Hallene
Price, recently installed Juneau
president, presided at the banquet.
Past-president Lucille Stine, was
introduced as having been respon
sible for many convention plans,
ar.d for money-raising necessary
for convention purposes.
Mrs. Galey Speaker
Mrs. Galey, speaker of the eve
ning, had as her topic, the theme
of the national organization for
the 1951-52 season: Full Partner
ship for the Job Ahead. A lawyer,
her address was entitled “Women,
Partners Under the Law," and she
developed the club’s theme of “get
ting ahead on the job; new pat
terns in behavior to promote na
tional strength and to build a free
world.”
The Federation of Business and
Professional Women, with 160,000
members in its international organ
igation is the only organization on
a national basis devoted to women
in business, Mrs. Galey said.
Better World Partners
"We must teach ourselves to be
come better citizans of the world,
to help develop our own commun
ities, to be good political citizens;
to vote. We must study both sides
of questions, and we want to know
both side:;. ... It takes not men
to make a better world, or women
alone. . but men and women to
gether, partners for a better world,"
the national officer said.
Mrs. Galey told those at the ban
quet how the BPW was' formed —
a development of Secretary of War
Newton D. Baker's request, during
Woild War I. The war was over
before the organization was formed
but by 1919, organization was com
pleted and the BPW on its way.
Aim at that time was that every
girl seeking entrance to the busi
ness world should have a high
school education.
Strides by Women
To impress the strides made by
women in the professions, Mrs.
Galey told of the difficulties faced
ty Elizabeth Blackwell a hundred
years ago because she desired to
become a doctor. She applied for
entrance to 12 medical schools and
all refused to accept a female, and
finally her entrance into small
Geneva Medical College in 1847
was the scandal o'f the village. Her
cour&ge won her graduation high
in her class, but no applause from
the world. The Boston Medical and
Surgical Journal made this com
ment:
“It is to be regretted that she
has been induced to depart from
the appropriate sphere of her own
sex, and led to aspire to honors
and duties which by the order of
nature and the common consent
of the world, devolve alone upon
men.”
8000 Medicos
And now, Mrs. Galey added, there
are over 8,000 women medical doc
tors in the United States—of which
Alaska has a good share. .
As to her own profession, here
the problem was as great, Mrs. Ga
ley said. When Lavinia Goodall,
as recently as 1875 applied for ad
mission to the bar in Iowa, the
judge who refused her admission
said:
"There are many employments
in life not unfit for female char
acter. The profession of the law is
surely not one of these. The pecu
liar qualities of womanhood, its
gentle graces, its quick sensibility,
its tender susceptibility, its purity,
its delicacy, its emotional impul
ses, its subordination of hard rea
son to sympathetic feeling, are
surely not qualifications for foren-/
sic strife. Nature has tempereo'
woman as little for juridical con
flicts of the court room, as for the
physical conflicts of the battle
licld. Womanhood is molded for
gentler and bette# things."
Then, Mrs. Galey, who practices
law with her husband in Sweet
Home. Oregon, said "Now I W'ould
like to hear any judge in the state
oi Oregon say that to me."
The banquet tables were centered
with large bowls of daffodils and
piing floweis. Flowers for the
speakers' tabic were brought to
Juneau by ihe representatives of
the new HPWC at Mt. Edgecumbe,
individual bouquets were at each
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TO IMPEACH
GOV. WARREN
OF FLORIDA
Charge Made He Wilfully
Disregarded Evidences
of Lawlessness in Stale
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 28 —Ut,
The Florida House of Representa
tives was asked today to impeach
Tov. Fuller Warren on grounds that
he wilfully disregarded his duties
ind ignored “evidences of lawless
less” in this free-spending vacation
state.
Rep. George Okell of Miami, unti'
recently one of Warren’s stout po
litical supporters, introduced the
resolution calling for impeachment
of the governor on 10 counts of
alleged misdemeanors in office.
All of them involved complaints
that have been made publicly abou
• he governor — about his cagnptugn
xpendttures, the conduct of j.i
acing commission, his reinstale
nent of three ousted sheriffs, (tut
his attitude toward the Flojada
rambliing situation. 5
A two-thirds vote of the Hotisc
would immediately suspend the gov
ernor from office and Senate Pres
ident Wallace E. Sturgis, would bike
over his duties. The state Senbte
would then, within six months, con
duct a trial of the governor.
No Florida governor ever has been
removed by impeachment, although
the House twice, in 1368 and 1872,
voted impeachment article-* against
Republican Gov. Harrison Rce*.
PIONEER
EXPLORER
IS DEAD
I
Lincoln Ellsworth, Aerial
Surveyor of Arctic and
Antarctic, Passes On
NEW YORK, May 28 — UR— Polar
Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, 71, a
pioneer in aerial survey of the Arc
tic and Antactic, died Saturday
night.
Ellsworth, several times feared
lost during years of exploration,
died of a heart attack.
Ellsworth's wife, Mary Louise, was
with him at the end.
The explorer’s last major trip of
exploration was a flight into the
interior of Antarctic in 1939, when
he claimed 81,000 square miles of
territory for the United States.
In 1935, he had claimed another
300,000 square miles of the Antarc
tic continent for the U. S.
At the time of the last explora
tion, he was a lieutenant commander
in the U. S. Naval Reserve.
Down on Ice
Ellsworth and Capt. Koaria Amuna
sen, another famous Polar explorer,
set out by plane in 1925 with hope-;
of being the first to reach the North
Pole by air.
But headwinds kept the two, using
separate planes, from their goal
They were forced down on ice, and
Ellsworth’s plane was wrecked.
Down In Open Sea
The two managed to join forces
after a month and took off in their
remaining plane. But they were
forced down in open sea and event
ually rescued by a sealer.
Ellsworth’s father died believing
his son had been lost.
Fly Over North Pole .
A year later, in 1926, Ellsworth
and Amundsen succeeded in flying
over the North Pole in the dirigible.
Norge. They crossed the pole on May
12. Ellsworth’s 46th birthday.
But Admiral Richard E. Byrd and
Floyd Bennett beat them to the pole
in a plane by three days.
He financed many of his trip
with the fortune he inherited from
his father, a wealthy mine operator.
Saturday on PAA for Fairbanks
where Sheldon will spend several
days on business for the Employ
ment Security Commission, of
which he is executive director.
KIIFLDONS TO FAIRBANKS
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sheldon left
Search Teen-Agers After Battle
Police (risk group of teen-agers lined up against a dner in Queens Village ine New York City after a gang
fight between two Queens factions. One youth died of stab wounds and two others suffered knife and gun
shot wounds in the brawl in which more than 40 youths took part. Police said 27 a rests were made on
various charges of felonious assault, illegal posession of weapons and unlawful assembly. (/PI Wircplioto.
BIG SHOT
RACKETEER
SENTENCED
i •> -«
Joe Adonis and Four Asso
ciates Sent to Prison,
Also Given Fines
HACKENSACK, N. J., May 28 —
l/PI—Big shot racketeer Joe Adonis
was sentenced to two to three years
in state prison and fined $15,000 for
violating New Jersey gambling
laws.
It was the first jail sentence ever
imposed on the 49-year-old Adonis,
who was named by the Senate Crime
committee as one of the nation's
most notorious gamblers.
Superior Court Judge J. Wallace
Leydon, who imposed sentense, also
suspended an additional five-year
prison term.
Receiving similar sentences were
four New Jersey associates of the
dappgr, Brooklyn-born underworld
figure, Salvatore (Solly More) Mor
etti, 46 of Demarest,; James Piggy
Lynch, 46, of Palisades Park; Arthur
Longano, 46, of Englewood, and An
thony Guarini, 58 of Hasbrouck
Heights.
All five were accused of operating
a plush $1,000,000 North Jersey dice
gambling empire.
They each faced a possible sent
ence of 18 years in prison and $18,
000 fine.
Adonis, whose real name is Joseph
Doto, and his four lieutenants elect
ed to plead no defence to four gamb
ling conspiracy charges last Monday
rather than face the publicity of a
trial.
“Joe Adonis is the victim of the
most vicious, rotten persecution that
ever existed,” his attorney John Sel
ser told the court.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, May 28 — Closin';
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
109%, American Tel. and Tel. 154%.
Anaconda 40%, General Electric
52%. General Motors 48%. Goodyear
78, Kennecott 73 %, Libbv, McNeill
and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 39,
Standard Oil of California 44 %.
Twentieth Century Fox 187 . U. S.
Steel 40%, Pound $2.80%, Canadian
Exchange 93.81%,
Sales today were 1,240,000 share
Averages today .were as follows:
Industrials 247.03, rails 78.08. utilities
42.02.
TONY ASTROM BREAKS LEG
Tony Astrom, aboard the cannery
tender, Afrlck, fractured his leg at
Gambier Bay, Admiralty Island,
and was brought to Juneau by Al
aska Coastal Airlines yesterday af
ternoon, according to information
at Coast Guard headquarters here.
He is in St. Ann's Hospital.
Suspect Looks a! Grave
Henry Ford McCracken (center), held in connection with the slay
ing of 10-year-old Patricia Hull, apepasr to shy away as he is led
to the edge of the rough grave at Santa Ana, Calif., in which the
girl’s body was found. Holding McCracken, who was arrested on
suspiciou of kidnapping, are Deputy Shcrifs Boyd Sturgis (left) and ,
Dan Kios. <lf) YVirephoto.
• •
o WEATHER REPORT c
• Tempera'."-'.' for 24-Hour Period •
• endinti 6.20 o ciocK this muruinu •
• In Juneau — Maximum, «
• 62; minimum, 46. •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 61; minimum, 42. •
• FORECAST •
• Partly cloudy tonight with •
• increasing and thickening •
• cloudiness, light showers. •
• Low temperature tonight 45 •
• degrees, high Tuesday near «
• 59. •
• PRECIPITATION «
• (Pust 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau — Trace; •
• Since May 1 — 3.81 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 71.86 inches. •
• At Airport — Trace; •
• Since May 1 — 2.14 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 41.41 inches. •
’ STEAMER MOVEMENTS '
Denali from Seattle in port and
scheduled to sail westward at 8
tonight.
Prince George with Portland Jour
nal tour party aboard scheduled to
j arrive at 4:15 tomorrow afternoon.
Prin es , Louise from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive tomorrow after
noon or evening.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday
COLOR TELEVISION
MAY ENTER NEW
FIELD, SAYS COURT
_
WASHINGTON, May 28 - T) —
The Supreme Court has cleared the
way lor color television to invade
the black and white field.
The high tribunal upheld Federal
Communication’s approval of Col
umbia Broadcasting System’s high-!
ly controversial color TV plan.
■Justice Black delivered the 8-1
opinion, rejecting an appeal by the
Radio Corporation ol America.
RCA's competing TV color system
was turned down by the FCC when
it approved-the CBS plan.
Ju tice Frankfurter dissented
from the majority opinion which
represented the views of Chief Jus
tice Vinson and Justices Reed, Bur
ton, Douglas, Jackson. Calrk and
Minton in addition to Black.
The high tribunal originally had
announced plans to wind up its work
for the term, but the justices said
another opinion day next Monday
will be necessary. In other action
they:
X, Rejected a Negro's, attack on
Virginia's poll tax law but disposed
of two other civil rights case-, by
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REDS LOSE
NERVE, GO
ON RETREAT
Resistance, However, Re
ported Stiffening-New
Attack May Come
By Associated Press
Communist resistance stiffened to
day as UN troops pushed deeper
into Red Korea after taking the
war’s greatest bag of prisoners.
But Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet
said the Chinese Communists hod
lost their,nerVe and retreated when
they couldn't crack the U. S. 2nd
Division.
Enemy Loses Nerve
"He (the enemy) lost his nerve.
He Just quit and hauled out,’*added
the UN ground commander.
U. S. 8lh Army headquarters an
nounced 3,000 Reds surrendered
Sunday. Another 2,000 were taken
last week.
Most of the 5,000 were captured
;n a great box-like trap, 25 miles
across and ten miles deep. The lid
of the trap is the Hwachon Re;' r
voir with UN forces anchored at
each side In Inje and Hwachon.
Both are in North Korea.
UN forces drove new prongs Mon
day across the 38th Parallel, al
ready punctured at half a dozen
points. South Koreans smashed into
Sakchang, 4'i miles north of the
Parallel and 10 miles west of Hwa
chon, Americans moved up on their
western Hank.
Stiffening Resistance
Reds put up stiffening resistance
against advancing forces Monday
and fewer surrendered
A strong Allied tadc force shoved
10 miles beyond captured Inje into
North Korea. It was turned back by
withering fire from a Red road block
near the village of Hangye, nine
miles north of the Parellel.
But the retreat, "fast as it Is," said
Gen. Van Fleet, does not necessarily
mean any end to the war.
"How far he (the enemy) will re
treat I do not know,” the UN com
mander sold. "He still has plenty of
reserves and great latent capabil
ities. He can smash us again if he
wants to.”
Peace Rumors
Meantime, peace rumors continued
as the Allies scored successes in
the fighting, but the U. S. State
Department said it knew of no new
Joint truce proposal or review of a
14-natlon truce statement prepared
•in March.
Diplomatic officials in Washing
ton said the 14-nation statement
could serve as an approach to nego
tiations if the Reds are interested
But with the military position of
the Reds weaker now than in March,
the terms for peace — if the Red
want to talk about it — may be
stiffer.
3 SABRE JETS
TAKE ON EIGHT
RUSSIAN MIGS
U. S. 5TH AIR FORCE HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, May 28 —
Three American F-86 Sabre jets
caught eight Russian-made MIG-15
jets 10 miles south of the Yalu
river today and damaged one in a
brief air battle.
The Sabre jets returned to base
unscathed.
Lt. William H. Gallup of South
Norfolk, Va., Said: .
■ They didn’t really want to fight
we were just between them and the
Yalu.” ,
Lt. Col. Glenn T. Eagle,ton ot
Alhambra, Calif., damaged the MIG
before the Reds broke off the tat
tle. The fight lasted less than five
minutes.
By 6 p.m. Monday the 5th Air
Force had flown 520 sorties.
CATCHES BIC. SALMON
Mrs. Jo Fender landed a 24-pound
salmon Sunday while fishing at
Dodie Cove. She used a Bert Sea
ton salmon lure.
L. S. Snaring of Seattle is stop
ping at the Oastlneau Hotel.