THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXVII., NO. 11,795_•___JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1951_ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
A llies Keep Falling Back On Blazing Front
MacARTHUR
URGES NEW
WAR POLICY
Wants Slaughter Stopped
in Korea - Thousands
Greet Gen., Chicago
CHICAGO, April 27 —I/P— Gen
MacArthur headed for Milwaukee
and another huge civic celebration
today after a Chicago demonstra
tion climaxed by his speech defend
ing his policy in Korea.
MacArthur, dismissed from his
Far Eastern command two weeks
ago by President Truman, in a
fighting speech last night called for
a "positive and realistic” Korean
policy "to stop through strength
this slaughter of America's sons.”
Milwaukee planned a huge recep
tion for the five-star general. Some
700,000 persons from all parts of
Wisconsin were ready to greet Mac
Arthur. who still calls Milwaukee
his home town.
MacArthur, on his three-hour
auto trip to Milwaukee, planned
brief stops at Fort Sheridan and the
Great Lakes Naval Training center.
His speech last night in Soldiers
Field highlighted the biggest and
noisiest celebration in Chicago’s
history.
It climaxed his rousing welcome
to Chicago, whose millions had
cheered and acclaimed him yester
day afternoon during a 23-mile ride
from the Midway Airport to the
Loop.
Defending his policy in Korea,
MacArthur told the Soldiers Field
throng:
“Our losses there (Korea) in
ration to the men committed have
already reached staggering propor
tions,” MacArthur declared. “These
losses are progressively mounting by
thousands each month . . . . ”
The crowd in the huge lake front
stadium was estimated at some 50,
000.
Willoughby
Retirement
—
TOKYO, April 27 — UPI — Gen.
Charles A. Willoughby, a MacAr
thur man from the Bataan and Cor
regidor days, has asked for Army
retirement so he can rejoin General
MacArthur.
He is the second of two-star gen
eral rank to follow MacArthur in
the five-star controversy with the
White House.
“I expect to join him and offer
what modest services I can render," j
Willoughby said today.
Willoughby served as Intelligence
Chief and assistant Chief of Staff
under MacArthur in Japan and
continued after the supreme com
mand passed to Lt. Gen. Matthew i
B. Ridgway.
The Washington!
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
f Copyright, 1951. Of Bell Syndicate. Inc..
T^ASHINGTON.—Shrewd speak
er Sam Rayburn, one of the Pres
ident’s best assets on Capitol Hill,
was talking to friends about the
sad state of Mr. Truman’s pres
tige as a result of the MacArthur
controversy and asked for ideas
on how to improve the President’s
public relations. Rayburn felt that
the President was right in ousting
a military commander who refused
to obey orders, but deplored some
aspects of the way the matter was
handled.
One friend suggested that what
the President needed was some
smart public-relations experts to
advise him.
“If he got some advice from
|larl Newsom in New York, who
handles public relations for Stand
ard Oil and Henry Ford,” sugges
ted the friend, “and from Tim Me
Inerny, who knows all the public
relations angles in Washington,
they could probably change the
present trend.”
“Yes,” replied Rayburn, “but
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
MAH IMPRISONED
William N. Oatis (above) Asso- ,
elated Press Chief of Bureau at I
Prague, missing since April 23,
has been found imprisoned by j
Communist Czechoslovakia and it j
is hinted he is to be tried for
“activities against the state."
This trumped up charge is made
because he sent out AP messages
stating the truth about conditions. |
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
GOV. SAYS AP MAN
GUILTY OF INSULTS
! FRANKFURT, Germany, April
127 —Uf)— Czechoslovakia’s Commun- j
11st government today accused Asso- i
ciated Press Correspondent William
N. Oatis, arrested by secret police,!
of spreading ‘material insulting to !
the Czechoslovak Republic and its
order.”
The AP’s Prague chief of bureau,
held since Monday, also is accused
of “securing and verifying certain ;
secret reports," the government told
the U. S. Embassy.
Tyler Thompson, American Em- j
bassy counsellor, presented in writ- j
ing to the Czech government a for- j
mal request that he be permitted to j
see Oatis. He received no definite
answer to this request when he i
made it orally yesterday.
NEW DENT CONTROL
DIRECTOR ARRIVES
FOR ALASKA OFFICE
- i
A. Bandettini has arrived in Ju- :
neau, having been appointed the j
Area Rent Director for the Alaska j
Defense-Rental Area. Mr. Baridet
tini has been with the rent pro
gram for approximately eight years,
having been the Director of several
of the larger Defense Rental Areas,
including the Alameda County De- ;
fense Area, comprising the cities1
ox Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, I
San Leandro and Hayward. He has i
also been a member of the Reg- I
ional Field Staff of Region Eight j
which includes the nine western 1
states and Alaska. ,
The Area Office will remain in
Juneau with Branch Offices in
Anchorage, Fairbanks and Ketch
ikan. One of his first duties will !
be the activation of the Ketchikan i
Branch Office. Since the entire
Territory of Alaska is subject of
rent control, the outlying towns
will be serviced from the four
principal offices.
Churchill Cancels
Proposed Trip
To United Slates j
LONDON, April 27,—UP)—Winston j
Churchill cancelled a planned trip j
to the United States today because I
of the British government crisis. ;
I*
m. vv. i. Hammond ot Vancouver, j
B. C. is stopping at the Baranof '
Hotel.
—
J. K. JOHNSON HERE
J. K. Johnson of the New Eng- .
land Fish Co. from Ketchikan is ;
at the Baranof Hotel. I:
FROM SEATTLE
John Anderson and Ray Miller
of Seattle are registered at the :
Baranof Hotel.
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Federal Civilian Defense
Funds Needed for Alaska Is
Demand Made*, Com. Hearing
WASHINGTON. April 27 —UPt
A Senate Armed Service subcom
mittee was told today that 67 per
MUSIC FESTIVAL
NOW UNDERWAY,
KETCHIKAN MEET
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 27—
(Special to Empire) — With the
arrival of 87 airborne members of
Juneau High school choral group
and bandsmen, direetors and chap
erone, the Southeast Alaska Music
Festival got underway yesterday
afternoon. Many of the Juneau boys
and girls became plane sick on the
ride but recovered quickly after set
ting foot on ground.
The music festival is the big
event and there are hundreds of
young musicians here to join Ketch
ikan’s choral and band. Besides the
87 from Juneau, Petersburg has a
large choral group participating
and Mt. Edgecumbe also has a large
group of singers and full band turn
out.
yesterday afternoon was devoted
to solo and individual numbers,
both vocal and instrumental, in the
Elks and Eagles halls.
This afternoon the festival bands
rehearsed and at 7:30 tonight
bands and choruses will give three
selections each fo rthe adjudica
tors.
An informal dance will be held
in the civic center after the concert.
Saturday morning at 9:30 the big
festival band rehearses at the Col
iseum Theatre and the chorus at
St. John’s church. Final concert will
be at 8 o'clock in the Coliseum
Theatre.
A dance for the students will be
held at 10:30 Saturday night in
Masonic hall.
Lunches have been served by the
Rebekahs an<j^ the Eastern Star.
Majority of the visitors are being
housed at various family homes
here and all report exceptional hos
pitality which makes for a good
and profitable time.
U. S. MUST NOT
BE STOPPED ON
MacARTHUR PLAN
WASHINGTON, April 27 — UP)—
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) told the
Senate today this country “mustn’t
be stopped” from adopting the Mac
Arthur Far East program “by any
possibility the Russians may come
into the war.”
Taft demanded the resignation or
dismissal of Secretary of State
Acheson as a step in that direction.
He said the State Department has
stood firm in Europe on repeated
occasions, but has followed a policy
toward the Chinese Reds “that we
have got to treat them tenderly.”
“The Atlantic pact itself could
reasonably have been said to have
invited from Russia some sort of
action toward war,” Taft declared,
and added there were other in
stances, too.
“This country, he said, “has got
to choose between Secretary Ache
son and General MacArthur on
which policy to follow.” He said he
has “no hesitation” in declaring
that it is MacArthur’s program un
der which “we can reasonably hope
to win.”
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, April 7 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
114, American Tel. and Tel. 154’i.
Anaconda 43 General Electric
55%, General Motors 53'!i, Good
year 76%, Kennecott 76'4, Libby.
McNeill and Libby 9%, Northern
Pacific 38’-, Standard Oil of Cali
fornia 49, Twentieth Century Fox
21%, U. S. Steel 45, Pound $2.80%.
Canadian Exchange 93.81'4.
Sales today were 2,120,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 259.01, rails 83.61, utili
ties 42.23.
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cent of Alaska’s population lives in
critical target areas and the Terri
tory should be exempted from pro
viding its own civil defense.
The testimony was given in sup
port of legislation that would exempt
Alaska from contributing to civil
defense in the same degree that the
states must.
Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska,
Delegate Bartlett of the Territory
and civil defense officials all joined
in urging prompt action by the
committee.
‘‘We can’t afford to wait,” Bart
lett said. "The need may arise at
any time.”
Disclosures
, Disclosures at the hearing in
cluded:
Plans call for spending $1,000,
000,000 on military construction in
the Territory during the coming
year.
Contemplated building of large
underground shelters designed to
accommodate 22,000 persons in an
emergency and do double duty as
hospitals.
Millard Caldwell, civil defense ad
ministrator, joined in urging prompt
action on the pending bill. He said
it “would permit . . financial con
tributions to the Territory ,for or
ganizational equipment and shelters
and protective facilities without re
quiring any contribution from the
Territory or apportionment of funds
on the basis of population.”
Situation serious
Caldwell, In a letter to the com
mittee, said the Alaskan Civil De
fense situation presents “serious
difficulties."
Samuel H. Sabin, CDA’s general
counsel, made the estimate that 67
per cent of Alaskans live in critical
target areas. He added:
“Relatively light incendiary at
tacks could render the population
of most communities homeless,
j Should such an attack occur dur
ing the below-zero weather of the
winter months, the entire popula
tion of a community would suffer
seriously from exposure."
He agreed with Gruening that
Alaska, because of its location as
'an outpost of the United States,
might possibly be the first to suf
fer under an enemy attack.
Strategic Importance
“Its strategic importance,” Sabin
said, "requires that measures be
taken ... to reduce the hazards of
enemy attack.
“For these reasons, this (CDA)
administration is sympathetic to
proposals to provide more adequate
ly for the Civil Defense protection
of the civilian population of the
Territory.’
He said that Alaska’s legislature
had appropriated $400,000 for Civil
Defense. This Sabin said, amounted
to about $5.50 for each of the Ter
ritory’s 127,000 residents and is “sub
stantially larger” on a per capita
basis than appropriations by any
other state or Territory.
Additional Funds
"However,” Sabin added, “addi- I
tional funds must be made available I
if an adequate system of shelters
is to be provided for the people of
Alaska.”
He told of plans to build the large
underground shelters which he said
would have permanent peacetime
value for storage use or as base
ments for future public buildings.
He estimated thhat the cost of the
shelters would approximate $5,000,
000.
Defense Needed
Hugh Gallagher, also of the CDA,
said that adequate civil defense is
needed in Alaska to protect the
civilian workers engaged in build
ing extensice Alaskan military es
tablishments contemplated during
the coming year. Gallagher said the
cost of such construction, is esti
mated at $1,000,000,000.
Gallagher said he did not believe
a prospective enemy would drop
atomic bombs on Alaska. Such a
powerful destructive force would not
be needed, he said, because of the
light construction of most Alaskan
buildings.
He said Nome could be reached
! by Russian bombers in 12 minutes
I and that Fairbanks and Anchor
age are only “a few hours” from
the home bases of Soviet planes.
Gov. Gruening told the committee
that Alaska does not have the fi
nancial ability to pay for the civil
defense it needs.
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Another Withdrawal
T:.
United Nations’ armored personel carriers, packed with soldiers, roll down a road northeast of Seoul
as they withdrew to better positions after Chinese Iteds iaunehed their spring offensive. Jim Martenhoff,
Associated Press photographer with the withdrawing troops, made this picture two days after start of
the attack, iff) YVirephoto via radio from Tokyo. i
Bride of An Hour
Mrs. Andrew Masito (center), the former Dolores Spaziano, 19, is the
picture of dejection as she weeps for her bridegroom, whisked away
to the Army just one hour after their wedding in Paterson, N. J.
That’s Josephine Ganglae, maid of honor and Dave Masito, best man,
drying the bride’s tears. i/P) VYirephoto.
Margaret in Rehearsal
Margaret Truman and James Stewart rehearse in Hollywood for their
radio appearance on Screen Director’s playhouse. It will be her
first appearance in a straight dramatic role, with no singing. She
will play Stewart's wife and mother of two children, iffl Wirephoto.
STEAMIER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive Saturday after
noon or evening.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle this afternoon and Is due
to arrive some time Monday.
Baranof from westward scheduled
southbomid 5 p.m. Sunday.
ANCHORAGE VISITOR
Charles Badger of Anchorage is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM SEATTLE
Pat Cavey "bf Seattle is registered
at the Baranof Hrftel.
SHAG WAY VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Smith of
Skagway are at the Hotel Juneau.
Fighter Hits
B-36 Bomber;
Six Are Killed
FORT WORTH, April 27 —(AV—
A B-36, the world’s largest bomber,
was hit by a F-51 fighter plane in
Oklahoma today and both crashed,
Carswell Air Force Base announced.
The Base Public Relations office
said the B-36 was making a radar
bombing run on Oklahoma City.
The spokesman said the F-51 from
Will Rogers Field at Oklahoma City,
was making "pursuit tactical passes’’
at the huge B-36.
A Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion spokesman at Fort Worth
said at least six airmen were be
lieved dead.
The crashes occurred three miles
from Perkins, Okla., and approxi
mately 55 miles northeast of Okla
homa City.
Asked if the two planes collided,
the Carswell spokesman said:
“No, it would be more correct to
say the F-51 struck the B-36.”
11 KILLED, 5 HURT IN
B-29 BOMBER CRASH
ROSWELL, N. M„ April 27 —iA*)—
Eleven crewmen were killed and
five others injured in a B-2 crash
in the Azores, Walker Air Force
Base announced today.
A spokesman at the Roswell Base
said the four-engined Superfortress
bomber cracked up and burned yes
terday at Lages Airfield in the
Azores while making an emergency
landing.
Plane and crew were stationed
at Walker as part of the 50th Bomb
group.
Authorities here said the crash
happened at 5:45 p. m. (MST).
The big bomber was on a regular
training mission and was en route
back to Roswell, they reported. It
was scheduled to make its first stop
in this country on the return flight
at Westover Field, Mass.
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27 FLY M VIA PAA
AND 10 FLY SOUTH
Thirty-seven passengers flew in
and out of Juneau Thursday with
27 arrivals and ten departures.
From Seattle: John Anderson, C.
Allison, John Hodkin, L. Boaze,
Margorie Coles, Kenneth Church,
Lewis Hashbrouch, J. Hanson, H.
W. Hammond, Kay Miller, Les,
Harold and Andrew Pepnula, Sev
Swanson, I. Vog, Ole Westby, G.
Johnson, C. Nelson.
From Annette: C. E. and Irene
Mullins, Pat Carey.
From Fairbanks: Tom Moore, P.
Vann, A. F. Ghiellone, V. C. Nel
son.
From Whitehorse: A. J. Thomp
son Floyd Jacobs.
To Seattle: M. Ferguson, T. W.
Mathiescn, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Wat
kins, John Turcott, W. Swendsen,
A. Mcpilvarie, Harold Jones.
TOE HOLDS
EVEN LOST
BY ALLIES
Reds Suffer Tremendous
Tosses But Keep Advanc
ing on 100-Mile Front
By Associated Press
Allied forces withdrew southward
on both ends of the blazing 100
mile Korean front today.
The fall of Seoul appeared immi
nent. Great masses of Chinese Com
munists swarmed down the rain
swept approaches to the battered
old South Korean capital.
Fighting 'ail effective delaying ac
tion, UN troops began falling back
through Uljpngbu, communications
hub 11 mltee^ to the north of Seoul.
On the Central front, the Allies
abandoned Yanggu. They broke off
contact with the enemy for the first
time in this sector and fell back be
low the 38th Parallel.
Only One Toe Hold Held
Latest reports said the Allies still
maintained a toe hold in Red Korea
in the extreme east, but nowhere
else on the active fighting fronts.
Where will the present Red Chi
nese spring offensive be halted?
U. S. Eighth Army Commander Lt.
Gen. James A. Van Fleet expressed
hope this could be accomplished on
the Han river that borders Seoul
on the south.
"Wc are withdrawing In order,”
Van Fleet said during a frontline
tour. "We are keeping units intact.
We are taking a tremendous toll of
} the enemy while enduring minimum
loeses.” , .
Attack Beaten Back
UN troops beat back attacks in
the center aimed at roads leading
to Seoul. In the extreme west, Al
lied forces fought a stubborn delay
ing action 14 miles northwest of
Seoul. On the northern approaches
the Chinese were last reported 10»
miles from Seoul.
Civilians poured south from the
city, twice before taken by the ene
my. A South Korean spokesman
said 200,000 persons had already
fled. Another 200,000 are expected
to follow and 100,000 will remain
behind. The city has little military
significance to either side.
Reds Gain
Although the Reds have made
gains of up to 30 miles in some
sectors they are paying a terrific
price in casualties. The UN com
mand estimated the enemy has lost
35,000 men IRlled in four and a
half days of the present offensive.
"They're spending people like wc
spend ammunition,” one officer said.
But the Chinese commanders seem
quite willing to spend great masses
of men from China’s millions.
Bloody Incidents
Allied losses were said to be light.
But there were bloody incidents.
The sudden rush of Chinese man
power, pushing forward regardless
of losses, trapped several UN units.
Groups of Turks, Belgians, British
and American soldiers were cut off
for a time.
An Australian outfit fought Reds
on three sides, but was able to pull
back safely. Britain’s Royal Glou
cestershire First Battalion came out
with a bloody nose. It was over
whelmed by sheer numbers of Chi
nese. AP Correspondent Tom Brad
shaw reported that paft of one com
pany were the only known survivors.
The exact losses were withheld by
censors.
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I • WEATHER REPORT •
1 • Temperature lor 34-Hour Period •
1 • ending 6 20 o'clock this morning •
i • In Juneau — Maximum. •
| • 43; minimum, 38. •
j • At Airport — Maximum, •
i • 43; minimum, 38. *.
i *
• FORECAST •
• Cloudy with intermittent •
• rain tonight. Variable cloudi- •
• ness Saturday. Low tonight •
• near 38 and high Sunday •
• near 50.
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 34 hours endlm 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau — .54 Inches; •
• Since April I — 8.44 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 66.37 inches. •
j • At Airport — .08 inches; •
! • Since April 1 — 2.72 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 38.47 inches. •
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