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VOL LXXVIII., NO. 11,806 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1951 * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_ PRICE TEN CENTS
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Fighters, Bombers' Strike Red Railroad Yard
MARSHALL
UNDER FIRE
FOURTH DAY
Secretary Denies Ridgway
MacArthur Statements
on War 'Parallel'
WASHINGTON, May 10 — Ml -
Secretary Marshall brushed aside
today a suggestion that Lt. Cien.
Matthew B. Ridgway had made
statements of the kind that led to
firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
He said they were not “parallel.”
For the fourth day. Marshall was
in the witness chair before the Sen
ate Armed Services and Foreign Re
lations committees inquiring into
MacArthur’s dismissal and the dif
ferences behind it.
At the outset of today’s session,
Senator H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ)
quoted a two-months old statement
by Ridgway which said "it would
be a tremendous victory for the UN
if the war ended with our forces in
contr )1 up to the 38th Parallel.”
Sm.th asked if that wasn’t the
kind statement MacArthur has
been criticized f:c making.
No Parallel
Marshall replied: ‘‘I don’t think
that there Is a sufficient parallel
there, Senator.
“There Ridgway was saying some
thing to the encouragement of his
forces.”
Similarly, Smith raised questions
yesterday about statements made by
Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, air
commander in the Far East. Strate
meyer had been quoted as stressing
the handicaps imposed by the fact
he was unable to strike at enemy
planes whi’e thev "'ere on tr t
biouud'at Iviancnurlan bases.
Mac Popular, Japan
In response to other questions
from Smith, Marshall said the ad
ministration “very carefully consid
ered” the effect on the Japanese
people before removing MacArthur
as occupation chief.
He said it was generally recog
nized that MacArthur’s prestige
with the Japanese people “w&s not
to be duplicated, certainly in a
short time, by any othir individual.”
DlytoVd Authority
He »fent on to say, however, that
if MacArthur had been allowed to
remain as occupation chief, while
losing his post as UN commander in
the Korean war, the result would
have been “divided authority which
might open up many confusions.”
Smith had suggested MacArthur
was unnecessarily humiliated by be
ing removed from his Japanese
command.
Smith also asked whether the ad
ministration considered, in deciding
to dismiss MacArthur, the possible
effect on the pending peace treaty
with Japan.
“Gag” Is Charged
And he wanted to know whether
John Foster Dulles was consulted in
advance of the firing. Dulles is a
Republican adviser to Secretary of
State Acheson and has been hand
ling preliminary negotiations re
garding the Japanese treaty.
Marshall said Dulles was not con
sulted.
Only 11 of the 26 members of the
combined Senate Armed Services
and Foreign Relations committees
were in the room when Chairman
Russell (D-Ga) rapped for order
and the doors were closed.
In advance of today’s session,
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1931. 07 Bell Brndlegtg. Inc..
TFaSHINGTON. — Harry's Let
ters — Handsome Senator Burnet
Rhett Maybank, South Carolina
was attending a White House Con
ference the other day on price con
trols, inflation and defense mobil
ization. Some of the price-control
measures were not too popular with
his constituents and Senator May
bank remarked:
“Mr. President, I am getting an
awful lot of letters expressing views
on this. Would you like to look
them over?”
Mr. Truman replied that he, too,
had received hundreds of letters
and countered by asking Maybank
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Tight Squeeze for Ball Chaser
T i ' 11 ini—— 11 i
Joseph Hoey. 8, finds the fit too snug (left) after he chased a ball
which rc.lled between walls of two Bronx, New York City buildings.
At right he is freed by emergency workers after being pinned in the
nine-inch space for 35 minutes. DPI Wirephoto.
BETHEL IS
FLOODED BY
JAM OF ICE
j FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 10 —
I '&1—Flood Raters, backed up by an
i ice jam jn the Kuskokwlm river,
| swirled through the town of Bethel
i near the river mouth last night.
| Bftfibing under the light of the mid
night sun was planned.
Residents of the community of 500
persons prepared to flee to higher
ground while a foot of water ran
through main streets.
Residents sent an emergency mes
sage to the Air Force yesterday, ask
ing that planes drop bombs on the
ice jam.
A B-17 bomber and a flight of
F-82 jet fighter planes left from
nearby Ladd Air Force base here
last night loaded with bombs. They
were to be joined by three bomb-1
laden fighter planes from the base
at Galena, midway between Fair
banks and Nome, and a C-47 trans
port which will carry supplies.
Air Force officials here said the
planes would blast at the ice jam
with bombs under the light of the
midnight sun and continue until the
river is opened.
ICE JAM BLASTED
FAIRBANKS, May 10 —(/PI —A
bombing attack broke a Kuskokwim
river ice jam under the light of
the •Midnight Sun” early today and
relieved a flood threat at the far
eastern village of Bethel.
An Air Force B-17 and a group
of jet fighters showered bombs on
the ice jam of the big river, which
flows into the Bering Sea.
A radio message to Ladd Air Force
base today said the bombs ' pulver
ized” the huge mass of ice and set
the river moving normally again.
The airplanes were ordered to Ga
lena on the Yukon river, where a
smaller ice jam was threatening to
cause flooding of the village.
Ice is breaking loose throughout
the river systems of Alaska, caus
ing many jams and floods from
backed up river waters.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle 4 p.m. Friday.
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive from Skagway at 8 a.m. to
morrow sailing south one hour later
at 9.
Baranof from westward scheduled
southbound Sunday morning.
FROM LOS ANGELES
N. B. Lillegard of the Allied
Building Credits Corp. of Los An
geles, is a guest at the Baranof
Hotel.
INDIA GETS
WHEAT; RUSS
SELLING IT
NEW DELHI, India, May 10 —1*1
Famine-threatened India announced
today that Soviet Russia had agreed
to sell her for cash 50,000 tons of
wheat — and that Russian ships
are already on the way here with
some of it.
A government announcement said
the agreement to buy the 50,000 tons
was the "first result” of negotia
tions with the Soviet Embassy here,
begun last week, on a Russian offer
to supply 500,000 tons.
Earlier Prime Minister Nehru in
a surprise announcement to an ap
plauding parliament said Russian
ships already were on the way to
India with wheat cargoes.
Nehru also told parliament that
the bills before the U. S. Congress
to send wheat to India "in our view
have no political or discriminatory
conditions attached to them.”
His statement appeared directed
toward conciliating American Con
gress. Indian differences with Amer
ican policies, especially in Korea,
have contributed to a delay in final
congressional action on a grant or
loan of 2,000.000 tons of wheat,
which India asked for in December,
GAMES TODAY
Here are results of major league
baseball games played this after
noon and received up to press time:
NATIONAL
Pittsburgh 2, Philadelphia 0.
Cincinnati 4, Boston i.
Brooklyn 6, Chicago 1.
New York 3, St. Louis 2.
AMERICAN
All games postponed, rain, wet
grounds.
• •
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperature tor 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau — Maximum, •
• 58; minimum. 43. •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 55; minimum, 41. •
• FORECAST •
• Partly cloudy tonight and •
• Friday. Lowest temperature •
• tonight near 39 degrees. •
• Highest Friday near 60. •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. todar •
• City of Juneau — .04 inches; •
• Since May 1 — .39 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 68.40 inches. •
• At Airport — Trace; •
• • Since May 1 — .23 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 39.50 inches. •
ACHESON
STAYS IN*
CABINET
Marshall's Testimony O.K.
-O'Dwyer Remains,
Declares Truman
WASHINGTON, May 10 — iffl —
President Truman jsdRr today there
is no foundation indict to reports
that Secretary of State Acheson may
leave office within a few months.
The President also described Sec
retary Marshall’s testimony on the
MacArthur ouster as the exact truth,
word for word.
Mr. Truman also told a news con
ference:
Reports he will recall William
O’Dwyer as ambassador to Mexico
likewise are rumors, with no found
ation in fact.
He is backing completely Price
Administrator Michael DiSalle's
I meat price control order.
DiSalle’s order has brought a flood
of protests from packers and others.
Same Old Fight
Commenting on the protests, Mr
i (Continued on Page Two)
| Truman Urges
[Korean Vets
I War Benefits
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i -
I WASHINGTON, May 10 — W -—
President Truman said today veter
ans of the Korean fighting should
be given every benefit made avail
able by the government to veterans
of other wars.
He said it was up to Congress
i to change the law under which hos
; pitalization was denied by the Vet
I erans Administration to a Korean
; veteran for a non-servicc-connected
disability.
D. R. Arellano, Jr., 21, of Tucson,
| Ariz., was denied admittance there
yesterday to a VA hospital. He was
j then taken to Pima County hospital
and operated on for a throat can
j cer. Arellano is a former Marine
: bazooka squad member, discharged
j after Korean service,
j VA officials said they could do
■ nothing about the case because the
! Korean conflict has not been of
ficially recognized as a war.
i Mr. Truman was asked his .re
action to the VA's refusal.
Up To Congress
He said he had no comment other
i than to say that he thought the
i VA had answered the whole ques
j tion. He said that the VA obeyed
j the law, and it was up to Congress
I to change the law.
And he said he thought that the
! Korean veterans were entitled to all
I the benefits that go to other vet
! erans.
The House Veterans Affairs com
mittee meantime asked the VA
regional office at Tucson for an
explanation.
The VA said a determination could
! be made quickly whether Arellano's
j throat cancer was service-connected.
If so he could be put on the com
pensation rolls and be entitled to
hospitalization.
QUICK ACTION TAKEN
WASHINGTON, May 10 — —
Congress voted swiftly today to give
veterans of the Korean fighting the
same medical benefits now available
to World War I and II veterans.
First the Senate, then the House
{ passed the legislation by unanimous
I voice vote and sent It to President
I Truman on the same day he asked
| for it.
Korean veterans are not now elig
I ible for treatment in veterans’ hos
pitals unless their ailments are
service-connected. Under the new
legislation, they will have the same
rights as veterans of other wars,
who may enter veteran hospitals for
non-service ailments if there is
room for them.
The prompt action followed the
refusal by a VA hospital in Tucson.
Ariz., yesterday to admit a Marine
veteran of Korea.
Mr. Truman first told a news con
ference this morning that it was up
to Congress to act. Then he sent a
formal request for such legislation.
Named Pulitzer Winners
Don Whitehead (left), Max Dcsfor (center) and Reiman Morin (right), all of The Associated Press,
have been awarded Pulitzer prizes in the field of international reporting and news photography. White
head was honored for his story, written with the U. S. Marines outside Seoul, describing the Han River
action. Morin was cited for his story, “Death of An Airbase,” and for another story, hatred to stay
long after the last shot is fired in the Korean war.” Desfor was named in news photography for his
picture of refugees fleeing across a wrecked bridge in Korea. <P> Wirephoto. _
King Takes a Bride
King Farouk of Egypt sits with his bride, the beauteous Narriman
Sadek, 17-year-old commoner, in the Koyal Palace at Caird following
the signing of the formal marriage contract, an all male ceremony,
I earlier in the day. (/PI Wirephoto via radio from Cairo.
COMMIE
WAVE IS
BROKEN
TOKYO, (Friday) —(/P»— Lt. Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway said Thursday
the UN battle in Korea may have
started the defeat of Communism’s
efforts at world domination.
The UN commander’s comment
was contained in an answer to Lt.
Gen. James A. Van Fleet, Allied
field commander, congratulating
Ridgway on his nomination to full
general.
Ridgway said it is “quite passible”
that because of the UN fight, "his
tory will record that the crest of the
Communist wave has been broken
against your arms and . . . that the
flood of this menace, reaching its
high giark on your front, thereafter
began its recession.”
* ]
STOCK OUGt’ATIONS
NEW YORK, May 10 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can 112,
American Tel and Tel. 155%, Ana
conda 44, Douglas Aircraft 101, Gen
eral Electric 55%, General Motors
52%, Goodyear 77%, Kennecott 76%,
j Libby McNeill and Libby 9%, North
ern Pacific 39%, Standard Oil of
! California 49%, Twentieth Century
i Fox 20%, U. S. Steel 44%, Pound
! $2.80%, Canadian Exchange 94.43%.
Sales today were 1,650,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
I Industrials 260.07, rails 84.39, utili
ties 42.51.
Ice Moves
At Dawson
DAWSON, Y. T. May 10, — The
spring ice breakup on the Yukon
was heralded last night -at 11:06
o’clock by the shrill blast of sirens.
Two laundry workers, Kai Kerteen
and Jennie Monk, had guessed the
ice would move at 11:03 o'clock.
39 FLY IN; OUT ON
PAA WEDNESDAY
Thirty-nine passengers flew Pan
American World Airways Wednes
day with 11 arrivals from Seattle,
nine through to Cordova, 18 to Se
attle and one to Ketchikan.
Prom Seattle: Walter Nelson, P.
Sorenson, Gordon Whitcomb, Dolly
Silva, J. Alexander, D. Novick, W.
A. Richardson, Kent Fuller, John
Murray, Glenn and Donna McMil
lan.
To Seattle: Ronald John, Billy
Jean Morris, Winifred Cressey,
Mrs. J. P. Crock, C. T. Davis, Pern
McGart, E. Plynn, Helen Little, A.
Hanson, Margaret Flaherty, Her
bert Trapp, Dr. John Reed, Willie
Edlund, G .Heaton, K. C. Wood,
William Parmer, Mrs. John Man
ders, Charles Gaily Jr.
To Ketchikan: L. J. Adler.
Mrs. Gene Graham of Seattle
came in on PAA yesterday and is
on her way to Pelican for the sum
mer. She stopped overnight at the
Hotel Juneau.
Mrs. J. P. Maloca of Ketchikan
is at the Baranof Hotel.
OLSEN SUING
AFU. CHARGES
OUST ILLEGAL
SEATTLE. Ivlay 10 —l*T— Ralph
E. Olsen, former assistant secretary
treasurer of the Alaska Fishermen’s
Union (RifD. filed a Superior Court
suit today charging that he had
been removed from office and de
prived of union membership illeg
ally.
Olsen asked for an injunction re
instating him In the union and his
office until the case can be heard.
A court hearing was set for next
Tuesday.
Named defendants were the union,
Secretary-Treasurer George Johan
sen, and Hans Hansen, who suc
seeded OLsen as assistant secre
tary-treasurer.
Olsen was suspended from union
membership for five years and re
. moved from office last March after
a union trial in which he was ac
cused of promoting “dual unionism."
The action followed a bitter fight
over attempts to merge the union
with the International Longshore
men and Warehousemen’s Union
(Ind). Olsen opposed the merger.
Olsen’s court complaint alleged
that trial committee members were
not chosen properly, that two mem
bers were prejudiced and that the
trial committee’s report was voted
on by only 196 Seattle members out
of a total union membership of 6,500.
PRICE BOOST
OF TWO CENTS,
ORE. SALMON
ASTORIA, May 10 —1*1 Competi
tion among packers for salmon
catches brought a 2-cent price boost
to fishermen from at least one can
nery.
Upriver catches this week ranged
from 200 to 600 pounds per boat,
while lower river boats were deliver
ing 100 to 400 pounds each, packers
said.
Good catches of sea-run salmon
were reported by trollers working
north of the Columbia river to the
Willipa Bay area. One vessel landed
a three-day catch of 1800 pounds.
Other boats averaged about 1000
pounds.
Packers agreed to pay fishermen
271 i cents a pound for salmon, but
one cannery Increased the price two
cents to get a fish supply.
T. J. MC CAULS RETURN FROM
WINTER VISIT IN SOUTHLAND
After a winter in Arizona and
California, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Mc
Caul returned to Juneau on the
Princess Norah Tuesday.
They are at home at their resi
( dence on the Glacier Highway ov
erlooking Auke Bay.
UN FORCES
WIPING OUT
RED THREAT
Allied Probing Tank Pa
trols Encounter Com
mie Mine Fields
By Associated Press
Allied armored patrols today stab
bed into Munsan, 21 miles north
west of Seoul, after wiping out a
Red threat to flank the old South
Korean capital.’
Tanks and South Korean infan
trymen hunted through Munsan
without opposition, then withdrew.
Elsewhere along the 100 mile
front the greatest obstacles encount
ered by probing tank patrols were
mine fields covered by small arms
fire.
Chinese “Wilting”
Chinese armies are "wilting on
the vine” because of lack of sup
plies, said Lt. Oen. Edward M. Al
mond, commander of the U.S. 10th
Corps.
The Reds have withdrawn to keep
out of range of UN artillery. Never
theless, Almond cautioned, they pre
sumably are preparing for another
attack.
“We are prepared for them,” he
said. “We are killing large quanti
ties of the enemy and will kill them
in the future."
Ready for Enemy
Lt. Qen. James A. Van Fleet, UN
ground commander, emphasized the
point. Van Fleet said his men are
in excellent spirit, at the highest
peak of determination, and
"We are ready for the enemy now
and at any time in the future."
An 8th Army spokesman said 6,000
North Korean Reds who had threat
ened to outflank Seoul were either
killed or routed.
The Fifth Air Force reported it
still was studying the results of
Wednesday's raid on Sinuiju Air
Field by 312 UN planes but it was
clear they inflicted "considerable
damage.”
Big Air Strike
Eight Marine planes were hit in
the raid, the greatest air strike of
the war. But not a single raiding
pilot Was scratched, the Air Force
said.
American F-86 Sabre Jets flew pa
trol over Sinuiju Thursday, within
sight of Russian-type Jets parked
on an air field across the border
in Manchuria. The Red planes re
mained safely on the ground.
For the fifth successive day Al
lied tanks pushed into Chunchon on
the Central Iront.
Roads Bomb-Pocked
Communist trucks and trains were
still rolling fresh supplies and equip
ment down bomb-pocked roads to
their withdrawing ground troops.
Some 275 U. S. Fifth Air Force
fighters and bombers roared out to
strike at rail yards in North Korean
industrial centers.
The Communists’ big voice, the
| Pyongyang radio, claimed the Reds
j killed or captured 20,792 UN troops
: during their drive which began
I April 22 and continued eight days.
| U. S. Defense Department has an
! nounced 2,311 American casualties
' for the two weeks ending May 4.
j This did not Include South Korean
I or other UN losses.
The Allied command has esti
mated Communist losses during the
nine-day offensive exceed 75,000
men killed or wounded.
FI RECAUSE J
B-26 BOMBER
RETURN BASE
|
| SAN FRANCISCO, May 10 —(A*—
An Air Force B-26 bomber which
| reported today that lt caught fire
j while flying to Hawaii radioed later
that "everything’s okay” and that it
: is returning to its home base at
McCellan Field, Sacramento,
i Five men were said to be aboard.
The Coast Guard said the fire
broke out when the plane was some
i 400 miles off the California coast.
Five rescue planes, including a
giant Navy Mars Flying Boat,
; searched for the bomber.