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JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1951
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Mac Arthur Gives More Facts On Korean War
RED PRICE
GOING TO
BE BLOODY
Supreme Commander
Ridgway Has Confidence
in UN Korean Forces
By Associated Press
Supreme Commander Lt. Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway said today the
Communist Chinese “will continue
to pay the bloody price they’ve been
paying” in the Korean war.
Returning from a front line visit
to his troops, Ridgway said his men
“have complete confidence, com
plete self-assurance in their ability
to handle anything that’s thrown at
, them.”
He scoffed at “the empty Com
munist promises to throw us out
of Korea and destroy the UN Army.
“So far, the only things they’ve
succeeded in destroying are a few
tens of thousands more of their own
men, and so far as I can see they’re
going to continue to do that — con
tinue to pay the bloody price they’ve
been paying,” the new supreme
commander declared.
He spoke as United Nations planes
and tank patrols raided Communist
buildup areas.
Red Regrouping
The fighting fronts were relative
ly quiet but behind the safety of
distant hills the Chinese were re
grouping and rearming their forces
for another blow in the hope of
driving UN forces from Korea.
Allied planes reported enemy
trucks were rolling southward by the
thousands. They are feeding the
buildup "ree ■ with new equipment
and ipp!'-s . -pitc Allied rouiui
the-clock bombing missions.
During the day the Communists
lost 1.740 men in killed and wounded.
New reinforcements began to ar
rive for UN forces. The vanguard of
the Canadian 25th Infantry regi
ment landed at Pusan. Brigadier
John M. Rockingham said his men
were ‘willing and anxious to do the
job” and eager to get into frontline
fighting.
MULLENS GO SOUTH
J. P. Mullen, President of the
B. M. Behrends Bank, and Mrs.
Mullen left Wednesday via PAA for
the states where he will attend to
business matters. Thev expect to
return within three weeks.
GAMES TODAY
NEW YORK, May 4 — iff! —Sal
Naglie yielded a triple to lead-off
man Pete Castiglione in the first
inning today and then stopped the
Pittsburgh Pirates cold without a
hit the rest of the way to lead the
New York Giants to a 5-1 victory.
Cincinnati 5, Brooklyn 4.
Two night games.
Three night American games.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
rCopTritht. 1951. oy Bell Syndicate, Inc..
TFaSHINGTON. — Nine months
before the Korean war General
MacArthur predicted that the Chi
nese Communists could be "easily
defeated in any major conflict” and
remarked that Chiang Kai-Shek
"knew nothing about the art of
warfare."
These amazing statements, exact
ly the opposite of what MacArthur
now professes to believe, are con
tained in a secret report to Presi
dent Truman, submitted by Con
gressman Charles Deane of North
Carolina in September 1949. Deane
was head of a Congressional dele
gation which called on MacArthur
in Tokyo to get his views.
Deane reported MacArthur as
believing that the "Chinese Reds
were greatly overrated and could be
easily defeated in any major con
flict.” Also that the "Soviets were i
powerless to conduct a full-scale 1
war on the China mainland.”
But the most remarkable state
ment was MacArthur’s reference
to invasion of the Chinese main
land.
Deane quoted MacArthur direct
iContlnued on Page Four) !
Five Million
For Memoirs
By MacArfhur
NEW YORK. May 4 —iff)— Gen
eral Douglas MacArthur, whose sal
ary and allowances come to $18,761
a year, has been offered $5,000,000
for his memoirs.
The offer was disclosed last night
by Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney,
MacArthur’s personal aide.
Whitney .however, declined to say
who made the offer. Neither did he
say how the deposed Far Eastern
commander reacted to the offer.
BEST SELLER
LIST CRA D
BY Mac HUR
NEW YORK, May 4 — ;.A>)— Gen
Douglas MacArthur has cracked the
best-seller list with the by-products
of his "old soldiers’ speech fo Con
gress April 19.
All told, recordings of the dra
matic address are expected to reach
a total sale of 2,COO,000.
Equally “phenomenal'’ sales are
reported for the hastily produced
records of the "Old Soldiers Never!
Die” ballad, which the general re-J
vived into an over-night hit in his j
speech.
The address is out in book form,
too. Rand McNally printed 250.000
copies at 50 cents each. The pub
lishers report, "All the distributors
have gobbled them up; they're sell
ing very fast.”
REE STRENGTH
AT 200 DIYS.
SAY BRITISH
LONDON, May 4 —Ml— British
government intelligence has revised
its estimate of Soviet Army strength
to 200 divisions, a qualified source
said today.
Only last March American and
British estimates of Russian
strength placed Soviet Army man
power at 175 divisions and 2,800,000
men.
The new figure dodSs not neces
saryily mean the Soviets are mobil
izing. the source said. It could mean
that better or more detailed intelli
gence reports brought about the re
vision, or it could mean the Rus
sians are building their forces in
the same way the western Allies j
are swelling theirs.
An average Russian division is be-'
lieved to be made up of 10,000 com-1
bat troops plus the usual reserves,
technicians, cooks, drivers and so
forth.
TO FAIRBANKS
Mrs. L. B. Avrit of the Em
ployment Security Commis
sion office, left Juneau Tuesday
for Fairbanks on business for her
department. She will go to Anch
orage Sunday on a similar mission,
and then return to Juneau.
STEAMIER MOVEMENTS
Freighter Sailors Splice from Seat
tle scheduled to arrive Saturday.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle late today.
Princess Louise scheduled to sai'
from Vancouver Saturday 8 p.m.
Denali scheduled to arrive Sunday
at 3 a.m.. southbound .
STOcTQUOT/mOMS
NEW YORK, May 4 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2V>, American Can
113*1, American Tel. and Tel. 156*5,
Anaconda 43'j, Douglas Aircraft
104*i, General Electric 56. General
Motors 53r<, Goodyear 78 a, Kenne
cott 77' -, Libby, McNeill and Libby
9a5, Northern Pacific 37‘i, Standard
Oil of California 49 Twentieth
Century Fox 21'-, U. S. Steel 45 I
Pound $2.80*s. Canadian Exchange!
94.62 *i.
Sales today were 2,050,000 shares. |
Averages today were as follows:]
Industrials 262.77, rails 85.06, utili-'
ties 42.53.
■■ 'ii Mi i ,ip iwn Miiiitfuiuse*.. .hhmb
E L B O W ROOM ONLY — Trout fishermen line banks of Catherine Creek. Seneea Lake
near Watkins Glen, at start of New York season in this favorite I inger Lake region fishing spot.
ESCORT IN GERMANY — “Anlna," who ha* been
training animals since she was sixteen, walks on a Munich street
With her pet cheetahs, “AU” and “Rigo” on leashes.
26 Radar Stations
In U. S.f Territories
To Be Constructed
-* —
Seek Oscar
Winner for
Questioning!
HOLLYWOOD, May 4 — I/P) — j
Academy award-winning producer- \
director Robert Rossen is being
sought along with nine other movie
figures for questioning by the House
Un-American Activities committee,
U. S. Marshal James J. Boyle says.
Rossen, who directed "All the
King’s Men.” was identified in testi
mony before the committee April 12
by Writer Richard J. Collins as a
one-time Communist.
Reached at Acapulco, Mexico, last
night, Rossen declined comment on;
ti e summons, except to say “It’s, nil j
news to me and I'll wait until 11
get some notification.” __ j
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o’clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
49; minimum, 39.
At Airport — Maximum,
50; minimum, 38.
FORECAST
Mostly fair tonight and
Saturday. Lowest tempera
ture tonight about 35. High
est Saturday near 56.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — .19 inches;
Since May 1 — .19 inches;
Since July 1 — 68.24 inches.
At Airport — .10 inches;
Since May 1 — .12 inches;
Since July 1 — 39.39 inches.
WASHINGTON, May 4, — M —
The government plans to place
modern airport surveillance radar
installations at 26 points in the
United States, Alaska and Hawaii
during the year starting July 1.
These devices, which scan the
skies and detect planes within a
30-mile radius, will be civilian in
stallations, but will be closely tied
in with the national defense set
up.
Plans for the radar Installations
were disclosed in House Appro
priations subcommittee testimony
made public today.
The list of proposed radar sites
was presented to the committee by
C. F. Horne, director of the office
of Federal Airways. The machines
would be installed and operated by
the Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion.
Tied in With Defense
Horne did not in his testimony
discuss use of jthe surveillance
radars, but a CAA spokesman told
a newsman "they will be closely
tied in with the defense set-up.”
"Identification," he added, “is a
major function of the CAA. We
are linked directly by phone, tele
types and otherwise with defense
facilities.”
The radars are not, he said, pri
marily for defense purposes, but
they will constitute a backstop for
military installations.
Their value for identification
purposes in wartime is obvious, the
CAA spokesman said.
lie added that the radars are to
be placed “in general” at airports
handling a heavy vqjume of traffic.
He noted, however, that many of
the sites are adjacent to strategic
defense areas.
Installations outside the U. S.
would be located at Annette Island
and Fairbanks, Alaska, and Hono
lulu.
HAL FAIRHURST HERE
Hal Fairhurst, Marshall-Wells
salesman from Anchorage Is stop
ping nt the Gastlneau Hotel for a
lew days.
U. S. SOLDIER
SHOT BY REDS;
REGRETS SENT
VIENNA, Austria, May 4 —UPi—■
An American military policeman
was shot to death by two Russian
soldiers early today and U. S. au
thorities immediately demanded
that the Soviet officials join in an
investigation.
An autopsy showed the American,
Cpl. Paul Gresens, 28. of Rochester,
N. Y., was struck in the stomach by
nine bullets from a Russian machine
pistol. Op). Jack Morgan of Keokuk,
In., who was with Gresens on pa
tr:>l, said the Russians stood between
10 and 20 feet away from Grfesens
when they cut loose with about 20
shots after being challenged in Cen
tral Vienna outside a night club.
The Russians fled to the Soviet
sector after the shooting.
Lt. Col. A. Korshev, the Soviet
provost marshal in Vienna, was re
ported to have expressed verbal re
grets in a two-hour talk this after
noon W'ith Lt. Col. Henry G. Thomas,
his U. S. opposite number.
American military police are in
control of the sector where the
shooting occurred during the month
of May. The control rotates among
the occupying powers each month.
Daily Worker
Man Is Guilty
Of Confempf
WASHINGTON, May 4 — (iW —
Philip Bart, general manager of the
Daily Worker, Communist party
newspaper in New York, has been
convicted of contempt of Congress.
U. S. District Judge Burnita S.
Matthews, who heard the Bart case
without a jury, late yesterday found
the long-time Communist organizer
guilty on eight counts of contempt.
The government had dropped 24
other counts in the indictment.
Contempt of Congress is punish
able by a fine of up to $1,000 and
by up to a year in jail.
JUNE DRAFT (ALL
20,000; SMALLEST
SINCE SEPTEMBER
WASHINGTON. May 4 — l/H —
The Army today issued a draft call
for 20,000 men in June.
This is the smallest number in
any monthly call since the draft
was resumed last September. Since
that time, a total of 550.000 men
have been drafted or placed on call
for Army duty.
The Al-my got 80,000 men in each
of the first three months of this
year. Thereafter, the April draft
was halved to 40,000 and the May
quota was reduced from 00.000 to
40 000.
The Army said the cutbacks were
made because of the greater num
ber of men volunteering for service
and the lower-than-expected casual
ties in Korea.
PRESIDENT
INSISTS HE
WAS RIGHT
| Truman Says MacArthur's
Testimony Bringing
Out New Points
WASHINGTON, May 4 — —
Harry Truman — tight-lipped,
watchfully waiting — says he's Sure
the Senate hearings will prove he
was right and Gen. MacArthur was
wrong.
And he came pretty close yester
day to saying MacArthur told Sen
ate investigators something that
wasn’t true. .
The President’s weekly news con
fer Aice ran a poor second, in the
headline count, to MacArthur's
hard-punching testimony, given at
the same time at the other end of
town.
MacArthur said, among many
other things, that the Central In
telligence Agency thought there was
“very little chance" last November
of the Chinese Communists enter
I ing the Korean war. (It was in No
i vember that they did enter the war).
Asked about this, Mr. Truman
said (A) the CIA didn’t make any
such report to him, and (2) Mac
Arthur didn’t even allow the CIA to
operate in his command until re
cently.
The CIA Is the nation’s top-level
intelligence agency. Mr. Truman said
its director, Gen. Walter Bedell
! Smith, made a special flight to
i Tokyo and persuaded MacArthur to
! make use of it.
The President said MacArthur
convinced him at their Wake Island
conference in October that the Chi
nese Reds were not going to strike.
1 When they did strike, he said, he
was more sorry than surprised. But
MacArthur, he said, was very much
surprised.
Getting away from the MacArthur
controversy briefly, Mr. Truman
said William O’Dwyer, ambassador
j to Mexico, still has his full confi
| dence.
HAINES ROAD OPEN
TO LIGHT TRAFFIC;
TO TRUCKS BY 15TH
Word was received this morning
by Frank A. Metcalf, Territorial
Highway Engineer, from Col. J
Young, Canadian road official, that
the Haines Cut-Off is now open for
j light traffic. This includes passenger
cars and pickup trucks. Heavy trucks
will be admitted over the road by
the 15th of the month.
Col. Young drove down over th(
highway to Haines and pronounced
the road in good condition with
dust in some places.
A1 Lubcke, Territorial Highway
: patrolman also drove up the Cut
I Off yesterday to Mile 87 and re
ports everything in good shape.
$10,000Verdict
Awarded Seaman
SEATTLE, May 4, — (*>— Henry
Lems, 62, Renton, has been awarded
a $10,000 judgment against the Al
aska Steamship Company by a jury
in Superior Court.
James D. McCutcheon, Jr., Lem's
attorney, introduced evidence that
; Lems was trapped between a truck
; and a bulkhead while the truck
I was being moved on the deck of
I the Steamship Baranof May 15,
i 1950, as the vessel was south of
I Ketchikan,.
Lems, a deck maintenance man
| on the Baranof at the time, suf
I fered permanent injuries to hi£
I ii.jht elbow and wrist.
NEW PATROLMAN ,
A new patrolman has been added
i to the staff of the Territorial High
i way Patrol in the Fairbanks area.
' Frank A. Metcalf, Territorial High
way Engineer, said today. He is
Sherman L. Edwards, of Fairbanks,
•1 who replaces Fabian Carey, resigned.
--
BOB ELLIS HERE
Bob Ellis of Ellis Airlines at Ket
' chikan, is here with his family.
They are staying at the Baranof
Hotel.
1
General Explains Why He
Split UN Forces in Drive on
Manchurian Border; Gives
Statement About Bombings
- <1
WASHINGTON, May 4 — M —
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said to
day the Joint Chiefs of Staff ap
proved when he split his United Na
tions forces last fall in a drive foi
the Korean-Manchurian border.
MacArthur made that statement
while under questioning from Sen
ator McMahon (D-Connl, a vigor
ous supporter of the Truman admin
istration position in the Far Eastern
policy row that led to the general's
dismissal from his commands.
McMahon brought up also a Mac
Arthur statement of last fall thal
his forces were launching a "win
the-war" offensive which woulc
have them home by Christmas.
There has been some criticism of
MacArthur because he split the 8th
Army and the 10th Corps, sending
them off on different slants toward
the Yalu river
When the Chinese Communist'
poured into Korea in force, the 8tl
Army and the 10th Corps were noi
in position to join forces for sup
port of each other.
Okehed by Chiefs
MacArthur told McMahon:
•'The movements, all tactical anc
strategic movements that I made
had the prior knowledge and ap
proval of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.’
McMahon said MacArthur yester
day had described the drive by his
forces in Nocember as “a reconnais
sance in force.” Then he said:
"As I recollect it. General, last
November you issued a communique
in which you said that this was the
end-of-the-war offensive which
would bring the boys home by
Christmas.”
“That was my hope,” MacArthur
replied.
McMahon: ‘‘Did you anticipate
that you could get them home by
Christmas with a reconnaissance
in force?
Move Explained
MacArthur: "The reconnaissance
would have developed the strength
of the enemy. If it was not suffi
cient to resist us, it would have
been an all-out assault and, as I
explained in my communique, it
would have undoubtedly destroyed
the last remnants of the North
Korean forces.”
MacArthur added that the line
between a reconnaissance in force
and an assault attack "is a rather
nebulous one and depends upon
circumstances.”
Too Much Censorship
Soon after MacArthur settled in
the witness chair for his secono
day of testimony, Senator Know
land <R-Calif> protested there hac
been too much censorship of Mac
Arthur's testimony yesterday deal
ing with restrictions on American
air operations in the Korean war.
Knowland said Defense and Slate
Department “combers” had deleted
portions of yesterday’s record he
believed should have been made
public.
Knowland is a member of the
Senate Armed Services committee
one of two Senate groups inquiring
into MacArthur's dismissal from hi;
Far Eastern commands and the pol
icy differences which led Presideni
Truman to oust the five star general.
Behind Closed Doors
The other committee is that ol
Foreign Relations.
The hearings are being held be
hind closed doors, but reporters art
given a stenographic transcript ol
what is said — after it has first
been "combed" by Senate and De
fense Department censors to take
out information they think might
injure the national security.
Knowland’s protest dealt with
messages exchanged between Mae
Arthur and the Pentagon about
bombing operations in Korea itself
Air force Restrictions
, "I knew that our Air Force was
under some restrictions in going
north of the Yalu (river), but I
had no understanding that there
were restrictions within Korea it
self, which was under aggression
from the Chinese Communists,”
Knowland said.
He added that this material "is
pertinent” and ought to be included
in the public records of the com
mittees’ hearings.
MacArthur told the senators yes
terday that he was first instructed
I 1 . — - - -
not to bomb within five miles of the
Yalu, the boundary between Korea
and Manchuria.
Bomb to Border
That would have meant the Chi
nese Communists, pouring into
Korea last fall, could come in for
five miles without air attack.
MacArthur said this first order
was changed after he protested vig
orously and he then was allowed to
bomb to the border. He testified his
planes then were permitted to bomb
to the middle of the bridges over
the river.
Wants Facts Public
Knowland said that if a Pentagon
message dealing with this could not
be made public in its original word
ing, it ought to be paraphrased and
given to newsmen.
Knowland said he wants to ex
plore the matter with the Depart
ment of Defense.
MacArthur, who returned to New
York after yesterday’s session with
the senators, flew back this morning
and took his place in the witness
chair at 9:34 a.m.
The 71-year-old general showed
no signs of fatigue from the stren
uous day he put in on Thursday
when for five hours he poured out,
often in emotional terms, his bitter
disagreement with the Truman ad
ministration policies on the Korean
war.
KOREAN PEACE CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON. May 4—lift— Oen.
Douglas MacArthur said today h?
understands Secretary of Defens*
Marshall has ruled a Korean peace
conference might properly discuss
Formosa’s fate and admission of the
Chinese Reds to the United Nations.
MacArthur told senators that, on
the other hand, the Joint Chiefs of
Staff had recommended that any
armistice “should specifically not
include the recognitions of any seat
ing of Red China in the United Na
tions or a consideration of turning
over Formosa."
“That was the recommendation
made by the Joint Chiefs of Staff,”
the deposed Pacific commander
said, adding:
“It was. I understand, in those
two particulars, disapproved by the
secretary of defense, who said that
he believed that those two items
might well be considered at the con
ference — the peace conference.”
On his own views, MacArthur as*
serted earlier thut Formosa must be
kept out ot hostile hands at all
costs.
“Third World War”
He said its loss might bring the
“collapse" of Japan and the Phlllp
I pines, and "invite a third World
| War..”
And, replying earliar to Democra
tic fire for his public break with
the Truman administration on Aslan
policy, MacArthur had declared: “1
do not believe in gag rule.” -
“It seems to me," he said, "that
the American people are entitled to
certain basic facts when it involves
the lives of their sons, and, per
haps the future of our country.”
For the second day, the 71-year
old general was in the witness chair
before senators inquiring into the
issues and circumstances behind his
summary dismissal from his Far
Eastern commands by President
Truman.
Letter to martin
Senators McMahon 1 D-Conn i and
Kefauver (D-Tenn), supporters of
Mr Truman in this issue, took Mac
Arthur to task for sending a letter
to House Republican Leader Mar
tin (Mass) endorsing the idea of (1)
bombing Red Chinese bases, and
(2> using Chinese Nationalist troops
against the Chinese Communists.
McMahon questioned “the advisa
bility, if not the impropriety" of a
field commander's expressing such
differences to "people in political
life” and Kefauver peppered the
general along the same line.
Nothing Wrong
But MacArthur refused to con
cede he had done anything wrong.
As on yesterday, reporters were
barred from the hearing sessions. j
From the censored transcript sent
to them, it was plain, however, that
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