HITS BACK AT
TESTIMONY OF
SECY. ACHESON
(Continued from Pace One
administration's plan at (hat time to
bring the Chinese Nationalists and
Communists into a coalition govern
ment,
2. Acheson gave "an erroneous
impression" that he (Wedemeyer)
had shared the Slate Department’
“pessimistic views" in 1949 that For
mosa, island stronghold of the Na
tionalists, would fall into the Com
munists.
“Pess'mistic Views”
Those "p?sj imistic Views” w?r
expressed in a document the State
Department circulated to its repre
sent'd', ve.-. abroad.
Wedemeyer .said he understand?
Hint document was “never coordi
nated with the Military Department.
He added that he wa concerned be
cause Ache- on had "resisted’ the
efforts by the Senate inquiry pane!
to learn which individuals in the
State Department prepared it.
Eighth Witness
Wedemeyer, a tail gray-hraired
man, is the eighth witness in the
inquiry by the Senate Armed Serv
ices and Foreign Relations commit
tees into MacArthur’s dismissal and
the Korean war policy differences
figuring in it.
weuemeyer is nuw me uuiumauu
ing general of the Sixth Army, with
lieidquarters at San Francisco, but
much of his Army service has been
concerned with the Far East.
In 1945, Wedemeyer was com
manding general of U. S. forces in
China, in 1949 — when the State
Department’s Formosa document
yras circulated —- he was deputy
chief of staff of the Army with head
quarters in Washington.
In between those assignments,
Wedemeyer made a survey of the
Far East in 1947 at the request of
President Truman and wrote the
liow famous Wedemeyer report on
China and Korea. That report pre
dicted a probable future Soviet
backed effort to take over all of
Korea.
Would Bomb Red China
Wedemeyer also told senators to
day he would adopt Gen. MacAr
thur's proposals for bombing Red
China’s bases and blockading her
coast even if it meant war with "an
other country.”
Testifying Wedemeyer said the re
fusal to permit the deposed Pacific
commander to bomb bases “where the
enemy was gathering his strength”
was an “unfair restriction” and “un
realistic.”
He said he would shell Red China’s
coast cities as well as use a naval
and economic blockade.
Senator Green commented that
military witnesses had testified that
blockade and bombardment would
be “an act of war.”
Fast Exchange
“Yes, sir," Wedemeyer said.
The exchange went on:
Green: “And if so, Russia was
obliged under her treaty, to come
to the aid of China."
Wedemeyer: “Yes, sir.”
Green: "And it is hard to imagine
our fighting Asia — I mean China
and Russia alone, and it would prob
ably lead to a third World War,
would it not?”
Calculated Risk
Wedemeyer: 'It might sir; that is
a calculated risk.” t
Wedemeyer told the senator^ he
asked to be relieved as deputy chief
of staff bee..use "I felt frustrated."
“I had served in the department
for a number of years, and from
time to time I made suggestions
along policy lines, and those sug
gestions were not accepted or imple
mented.”
He added:
“The policies, the plans for Amer
ican action in the west and in the
east I did not agree with.”
Wedemeyer was the first witness
on MacArthur’s side of the great
controversy over the Far Eastern
policy since MacArthur himself tes
tified over a month ago at the open
ing of the inquiry by the Senate
Armed Services and Foreign Rela
tions committees.
In the meantime, the senators
have heard a succession of adminis
tration witnesses.
Metal in Stomach
Three-year-old Carol Morrison is cheerful and in no pain at Ponce
de Leon Infirmary at Atlanta, fla., as she awaits the arrival from
Schenectady, V Y., of two small but powerful magnets from the
General Elec tric Co. which will be used to retrieve the cover of an
automobile door lock from her stomach. The special magnets are
being sent by air. Less powerful magnets have not been effective
since the petite blonde gulped down the round cover several weeks
ago. The nurse Is Miss Ililde Thigpen. i/P) Wirephoto.
LAWMAKER
SENTENCED
JAIL, FINED
WASHINGTON, June 11 —UPI—
Rep. Walter E. Brehm (R-Ohio)
has received a suspended jail sent
ence of five to 15 months and fined
$5,000 for illegally accepting $1,000
in campaign funds.
The sentence was pronounced by
Federal Judge Burnita S. Matthews
before whom Brehm was convicted
by a jury April 30.
The 58-year-old lawmaker turned
down an opportunity offered him
by the judge to say anything he
| wished before hearing the sentence.
Brehm now is serving his fifth
term in Congress.
After a two-week trial, a jury of
10 men and two women last April
30 convicted the congressman of
five separate violations of the Fed
eral Corrupt Practices Act which
makes it a crime to take a political
donation from a government em
ploye.
Each count of the conviction in
volves a $200 payment to Brehm
from Mrs. Emma E. Craven while
she was a clerk in his congressional
office in 1948.
Brehm is not required to resign
his House seat because lie has been
convicted of a crime. Only the House
can remove one of its members.
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12 IN. 34 OUT ON
6ARAN0F SUNDAY
Twelve passengers arrived south
bound on the Baranof Sunday with
34 embarking for Seattle and Ketch
ikan.
Disembarking from Seward: Mr.
Langfeldt, Ai J. Campbell and two
sons.
From Sitka: Capt. and Mrs. M. A.
Johnson, Mrs. Bessie Marshall and
two daughters. Joseph E. Otte, Mr.
and Mrs. William Fausch and two
children.
Embarking for Seattle: Mrs. J. H.
Stickler and two children; Don E.
Grafton and three children; Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Boobanks, Mrs. J.
Walsh. Mr. and Mrs. Clifton K. Tis
dale and son; Louis Prentice, Rob
ert Prentice, Manie Blyberg, W. G
Israel, Mrs. Pearl Dove, Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd V. Riley, Steven Riley.
Mrs. William Dore and two chil
dren; Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Bnlton
and child; Dorothy Meyers. Mr. and
Mrs. Vide and daughter.
For Ketchikan: Mrs. Steve Shel
don and two children; Glenn Leach.
LICENSE TO WED
A marriage license was issued in
U. S. Commissioner’s Court this
morning to Archibald Edwards
Campbell and Juliet H. Bingham.
Campbell is in the Juneau office
of the Bureau of Reclamation and
the bride-elect is a Seattle sales
woman.
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Dying Yet Going Home
Mrs. Tcssle Vowell of Brucctowi', Tenn., holds the hand of her son,
James, 21, in the navy’s Oak Knoll Hospital, Oakland, Calif. Doctors |
say he has only a few more weeks to live as the result of a head |
injury received aboard a minesweeper during an amphibious assault •
at Wonsan in Korea last year. He hail expressed a desire to see his j
home town once more and the navy is making plans to have the |
youth and his mother flown there. ‘IP VVirephoto.
TIP FROM OLD MASTE R_Fred Wilt (right), FBI
man and runner, chats with Glenn Cunningham, Kansas’ famed
miter of ’30's, after Wilt won Cunningham Mile in Kansas Relays,
38 IN, 28 OUT ON
PRINCESS LOUIS*
Twenty eight passengers embar
ked on the Princess Louise Satur
day for Skagway while thirty eight
disembarked irom Vancouver.
Disembarking from Vancouver:
Mr. and Mrs. F. Eggers, Mr. and
Mrs. M. J. Hansen, Mr. and Mrs.
T. Beason, C. Cockburn, Miss E.
Homuth, Mr. and Mrs. VV. Justice,
P. Justice, Jr., Mrs. L. Landwere,
Mr. and Mrs. L. Minkel, Mrs. E.
Potter, Mrs. A. Wainer, Miss E. H.
Wainer, B. McCoy, J. E. Anderson,
J. Berringer, A. P. Campbell, R.
Condra, Miss S. E. Corbett.
D. Chagnon, S. Godrej, D. G.
Hauser, L. Kuusisto, F. Kusenko,
M. McKenzie, G. J. Melantini, M. I
Mattson, D. A. Mellor, J. A. Par- |
enteau, H. Smith, B. Sung, Miss I.
Shennett, D. McDougall, J. Kita.
Embarking for Skagway: Miss
Irene Williams, Miss Marjorie Wil
liams, Mrs. Dan Tayler and two
children; Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Mar
quardt, Mr. and Mrs. Gibsen, Mr.
and Mrs. James Cudney, Miss Dor- j
othy Prowdler, Miss Ann Caries,
Miss Gladys Crossman, Mr. and
Mrs. Stocking, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marshall, Mr.
and Mrs. George O'Brien, Sidney
3. Kennedy, Mrs. Vera Murphy,
Mrs. Lee Moxe and daughter; Scr
ap Godret, Miss Desiewicz.
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Cancer Victim Honored
Betty Thompson, do6med 18-year-old Atlanta, C«a„ high school j
beauty queen, walks under an arch of sabres held by R. O. T. C. cadets
at graduation ceremonies. A leg aipputation two years ago failed to
halt the dread disease which has spread to her lungs. 'I?I Wirephnto.
T. D. HUDDLESTON
DIES i SEATTLE
SFATTLE, June 11, — liPl —Hen
ry Huddleston, former superintend
ent of the Alaska Road Commission
at Valdez, died Saturday at his
home in Redwood City, Calif. Ke
was 80. Ke retired 10 years ago. His
widow and two daughters survive.
DIVORCE ASKED
Application for divorce was filed ;
in U. S. District Court today by ]
Margaret Femmer against Charles |
Femmer charging incompatibility.
Mrs. Femmer is represented by M.
E. Monagle, attorney.
The brittle star, a cousin of the
starfish, is so I fragile it is seldom
found in shallow water disturbed
by waves.
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FIVE JAPANESE
WAR CRIMINALS,
KANG, AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY, Australia, June 11 —
LPt— Five Japanese war criminals
were hanged today on Manus Is
land. They had been convicted by an
Australian court of murdering Aus
tralian prisoners of war.
The five included Lt. Gen. Takuma
Ni himura. Nishimura was found
guilty of killing 110 Australians and
35 Indian prisoners of war in 1942.
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