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Allied Forces Are Swarming Into Korea
PLANE USED IN
II L HUNTING
AWARDED TO FWS
[ _
The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice has been awarded an Aeronca
' Chief, two-place airplane by Judge
A. J. Dimond, U. S. Court in the
: Third Division.
The plane was seized by Holger
I s. Larsen, enforcement agent of
the FSW, near Kashwitna in the
middle of last December when Ger
ald A. Bowlin was apprehended on
I the charge of hunting moose from
i a plane.
I On complaint of Larsen, the
plane was put in custody of * Da
I vid A. Drew, deputy U. S. Marshal
of the Third Division and kept by
| him until court action of May 15,
awarded it to the Fish and Wildlife
1 Service.
Local FWS officials pointed out
that under Section 191, Title 48,
USCA and Section 46.101 of the
Alaska game regulations, hunting
moose from an airplane is prohib
; ited. Confiscation of the plane was
similar to confiscation of fire
arms or other equipment taken in
illegal hunting.
Dan Ralston, chief enforcement
agent in the Jun^ti office said
that this is the fir* seizure of its
kind made of aircraft and is in line
with FWS policy for the future
concerning aircraft used in hunting.
ALASKA NAT. GUARD
DETACHMENT ATTEND
CAMP IN WASHINGTON
A detachment of 18 officers and
''enlisted men of the 208th Infant
'iy-gatt i.Unn —np ■ iwwl^low ■cwlis
ted men from the 207t,h Infantry
Battalion (Sept, Alaska National
Guard leave June 9 for summer
encampment at Ft. Lewis, Wash
ington.
Primary objective of tne encamp
ment is to train personnel in their
present assignments to the Alaska
National Guard. The policy of send
ing members of the guard of one
state to another for purposes of
encampment is usually not done.
Through the efforts of Col. Joseph
D. Alexander, acting adjutant gen
eral, approval has been received
from National Guard Bureau,
Washington, D. C., for members of
the Alaska National Guard to at
tend this encampment.
The Alaska detachment will be
on active duty with the 41st In
fantry Division of the Washington
State National Guard under the
command of Major General William
B. Carroll. Records show that the
41st Division shares top honors with
the 96th and 7th Infantry Divisions
and the 1st Cavalry division because
of duty seen in the south Pacific
area during World War II.
POLLEYS GO SOUTH
Bryce Canyon and the Grand
Canyon are on the itinerary of Dr.
and Mrs. Clayton Polley and their
children, Ernest and Roger, who
were southbound passengers on Pan
American Friday.
Dr. Polley will attend the Pacific
Coast Dental Conference in Seattle
at the end of June before return
ing north.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEAR80N
(Copyright, 1951. ny Bell Srnaicate. Inc..
TFaSHINGTON.—A group with
in the cabinet and the State De
partment policy committee are
working backstage with the Dem
ocratic National Committee to find
a successor for Dean Acheson. They
regard their job as twofold: 1. To
convince the President he ought to
let Acheson go for the good of the
country and party; 2. To find a
man so acceptable that HST will
buy.
One leader of this group is Sec
retary of the Interior Oscar Chap
man and this was a main topic
for discussion behind closed doors
at the Denver Democratic powwow.
The formula this group has in
mind as Acheson’s successor is: a
progressive, internationally minded
Republican, vigorous, healthy, and
with Congressional experience.
Secretary Chapman, who will
deny this vigorously if questioned,
even sounded out one possible can
didate before going to Denver.
GOP’s Best Target
It is no accident that Republican
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TRAINMEN
SETTLE TWO
YR. DISPUTE
—
WASHINGTON, May 26 — UP) —
The Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men and the nation’s major rail
roads have settled their bitter two
year-old wage dispute. Three other
rail unions remain at outs with the
carriers.
The trainmen, headed by W. P.
Kennedy, settled last night for a 33
cent hourly increase for yardmen
and 181 i cents for those in road
service, effective at various dates
back to last October 1.
Spokesmen for both sides said
they were sure that Wage Stabiliza
tion Board approval was unneces
sary because the terms had been
agreed in general last Dec. 21, some
30 days before the government froze
wages.
Whether that theory would hold
up or not depends on the board.
Terms of the settlement between
the 150,000 members of the train
men’s brotherhood and the carriers
were being studied by the three
other operating unions — the engin
eers, conductors, and firemen. How- i
ever, they showed no immediate in
clination to settle on the train
men's terms.
99 CARRIED ON
ALASKA COASTAL
THURSDAY TRIPS
Alaska Coastal Airlines carried
a total of 99 passengers on Thurs
day flights with 17 on interport,
47 departing and 35 arriving.
Departing for Tulsequah: James
Johnson, G. Chisholm, F. Chisholm,
R. E. Hawkes, A. Wingen, F. Guy
lett, L. Morrison, J. C. Madeire, R. j
McPhetrich; for Sitka: H. Lang-j
feldt, Mrs. Louie Scool, Joe Reed
Jr., R. E. Engelking, Mr. Roelim,
L. R. Caywood, M. Kohl, W. A. Peter
son, Mrs. Gene Wood, Deborah
Wood, M. Day, Mrs. McMurchie, I
Mrs. S. C. Nicholson and child; C.
Maycock.
For Ketchikan: Lt. H. M. Kelsey,
Roy Downing; for Petersburg: Jer
ry Beason: for Haines: Mrs. Clyde
Hawken, K. M. Hawken, Norvin
Lewis, Stanley Baskin, Mrs. Chase,:
Robert Dale, R. Boochever, M. V.
Raney; for Skagway: Bob Dean.
For Pelican: Mike Goodman; for
Excursion Inlet: A. Petraborg; for
Hoonah: Willys Dick, Paul Magnu
son, G. Lowry; for Tenakee: Mr. and
Mrs. James Paddock, Georgia Pad
dock; for Chatham: Mrs. Rich and
child; for Taku Point: Ed Sarabia.
Arriving from Pelican: J. K.
Johnson: from Angoon: Mrs. ELsie
John, Nicholas James, Mrs. Edna
James; from Funter: H. Moy; from
Hoonah: Paul White, Harry Douglas,
Jane Moses; from Hawk Inlet: G.
Mamolo, T. G. Freeman.
From Skagway: Betty Cole, Se
nora Lee, Daniel Cole; from Haines:
Robert F. Dale, Tom Ward; from
Ketchikan: Tom Hansen; from
Petersburg: H. Smith, C. Stockley;
from Petersburg: R. Hauser, Mr.
Stevens, L. D. Yrdah.
From Sitka: Dr. Grace Fields, L.
Evans, R. Young, F. Toner, C. Wy
ler, W. Featherstone, H. Halvor
seon, Marion Kohl, Paul Shannon,
Mrs. Chase, Julia Sara, B. Hanford,
Mrs. Morelander; from Tulsequah:
Donald Hauser.
GIRL SCOUT CAMP
REGISTRATION IS
OPEN TO JUNE 10
Registrations for Girl Scout
camp at Eagle river will remain
open until June 10, Mrs. Morton
Flint, chairman, has announced.
Girls are reminded that if they
will be in the 5th, 6th or 7th grade
in the fall, they should register for
the second session July 5 to 14.;
Girls in the 8th and high school!
should register for the first session
June 24 to July 3.
Registration for Brownie Day
camp will also remain open until
June 10, Mrs. Flint said. Miss Mil
dred Kershner, Director, and her j
assistants will arrive in town June
17 to complete plans for camp ac- j
tivities so that both Brownies and
Scouts will have the best time ever
at Camp.
45 GRADUATE
JUNEAU HIGH;
AWARDS MADE
Before a packed auditorium of
parents and friends 45 seniors of
Juneau high school received diplo
mas of graduation last night In the
gymnasium of the high school, the
first class to have completed theii
work in the new half century.
Revealing their high scholastic
standing, principal Leslie B. Avrit
presented Harold Schultz the highly
coveted Coast Guard examination
award with a standing of 197 in
over 6.000 who took the examina
tion. Winning a straight A aver
age four years in high school was
Ann Henning, who was Valedic
torian of her class.
Other honor winners were: Aileen
Kronquist, Mary Whitaker, Fred
erick Wyller, Carl Weidman, Paula
Cook, Robert Ripke, Rosemary
Theile, Marge Williams, Harold
i Budi Schultz and Evelyn Nash.
In other special awards Robert
Ripke won a scholarship to Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology
and Carl Weidman a scholarship
to Stanford University.
An Alaskan-Hawaiian scholarship
to Oregon State College was won t
by Paula Cook. The Kiwanis Club
award, to one boy and one girl,
was captured by Bud Schultz and
Adaline Barlow.
The American Legion award to
the boy showing outstanding cour
age, scholarship, leadership and
service was given to Dick Keithahn
md to the girl showing courage,
companionship, character, and scho
arship, to Ann Reischl.
An anonymous donor of a sub- I
itantial scholarship to one of out
standing ability was awarded to |
Carol "aeon for her musical tal if 1
:>n the piano. The Farent-’feacliar
scholarship of $500, to help a de
serving student to continue his ed
ucation, was won by Carl Weidman.
Ruth Posey won the other P.-T.A.
scholarship award,' a memorial
award in memory of Harry Sper
ling, Josephine Boyd and Walstein
Smith.
Heralding the 1951 class was Hen- j
ry A. Harmon, for 15 years an in- i
structor in the Juneau schools and j
now Director of the Department of |
Public Welfare for the Territory!
who took as his theme the class',
motto, “Learn to Live, and Live to
Learn.” Declaring this a challang
ing motto, Harmon said:
“You young people must live an
alert life and be aware of present
day problems. Never before, in this
?reat country of ours Iras it been
so important that each and every
citizen be cognizant of the liberty
which is theirs, and to be aware
si the threats which are being held
aver them. Never before has it been
30 important for each individual
citizen to be able to pick out facts
and not be swayed by mistruths
and propaganda. Never before have
so many people of the world looked
to us as a free people.”
Setting forth these challenges,
the speaker said:
"These are the things which we
must keep in mind and especially
you young people to whom we look
for our leadership of tomorrow.”
Harmon stressed the needs of the
community and the ways in which
the young graduates could help in
their fulfillment.
The band opened the program
with a Processional, followed by
the Invocation by Rev. Robert
Whelan and a number by the high
school chorus.
Robert Ripke, president of the
senior class, spoke a welcome to
parents and friends.
Carol Ann Bacon and Harold
Schultz, on two pianos, played
Flood j of Spring by Rachmanin
off, which was followed by the
Valedictory by Ann Henning.
A senior gift of $75 was presented
to the coming senior class by Joyce
Hope.
Dewey Baker, with a compliment
to the graduates in which he said:
“I hope your parents are as
proud of you throughout your lives
as they are tonight,” presented the
graduates their diplomas. (
Superintendent of Schools Ster
ling Sears complimented the class
upon their graduation and intro-'
duced Mr. Baker who presented
the diplomas.
Delegates to the Alaska Business
and Professional Women's Clubs
who arrived yesterday to attend the
convention here are: Ruth L. Mc
Grew, Anchorage; Mrs. John Galey,
Sweet Home. Ore.; Myrtle L. Bow
ers, Fairbanks; Mrs. Charles E.
Clark and Miss Alma Robertson,
both of Mt. Edgecumbe. They are
all registered at the Baranof Ho
tel. Other delegates were arriving
today.
NO ORDER
VIOLATED,
MacARTKUR
Gen. Collins Insists Only
"Policy" Was Over
stepped by General
WASHINGTON, May 26 — (AA —
Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief
of Staff insisted today that Gen.
Douglas MacArthur “violated a pol
icy” in sending U. S. troops close
to the Manchurian border in Korea.
Ho said he does not accuse the
general of violating an “order," but
that the Joint Chiefs of Staff feared
“the thing might be done in some
other instance of a more serious
nature.
Collins made the statements at
hearings by the Senate Armed Serv
ices and Foreign Relations com
mittees on MacArthur’s dismissal as
Far Eastern commander.
Collins first raised the matter
yesterday in response to a question.
It put a whole new issue into the
MacArthur hearings because of the
implication that the ^ Joint Chiefs
of Staff ha^ cautioned MacArthur
against action which might bring
Chinese Communists into the Korea
War, but he had disregarded their
policy views.
Itombing Issue
Collins said the Pentagon “care
fully reviewed” the idea of bomb
ing Chinese Communist bases in
Manchuria last November and .again
jtrwii JBl y rfeCn ttWT
it.
MacArthur’s public advocacy of
using air power against Chinese
bases, in an effort to shorten the
Korean war, was one of the policy
differences figuring in his dismissal.
Soon after returning to the wit
ness chair today, Collins said he
had checked his records and it ap
peared that McArthur never did
specifically request authority to
bomb such targets.
No Recommendation
“So far as we have been able
to locate,” Collins said, “he made
no specific recommendation, but in
all frankness and honesty, in my
judgment he clearly indicated that
he thought it ought to be done . .
Collins went on to say MacArthur
had “raised the question” of bomb
ing such targets as early as last
Nov. 7, when “he stated that re
strictions placed upon the United
Nations operations in Korea provid
ed a sanctuary for hostile forces.”
At that time, Collins said, Mac
Arthur sought instructions for deal
ing “with this new and threatening
development.”
Collins added that after MacAr
thur’s Nov. 7 message there were
several references to the matter—
apparently by MacArthur —“from
that time forward.”
Chinese Attacked
Senator Russell asked whether
the Chinese had attacked in force
in Korea at the time of the Nov. 7
message.
“No, not until the 24th of Novem
ber,” Collins replied.
Senator Hickerilooper commented
it was cutting a commander down
“pretty thin” if he was required to
write to the Joint Chiefs of Staff
every time he wants to load a can
non or, say, put five rounds in a
rifle.”
Russell said he saw “absolutely
no relationship between asking per
mission to load a cannon and asking
permission to bomb forces outside
of Korea that had not yet demon
strated that they were attacking
our Armed Forces.” Russell added.
lio Intervention
“II wouiu seem to be quite a
difference in that and in deciding
to attack neutral forces that were
within their own country and hat
not yet intervened in the war.”
Collins said the Joint Chiefs ol
Staff gave consideration to the
bombing issue.
Although they had decided againsl
it, he said, “we carefully reviewec
the thing after a message from Mac
Arthur dated the *7th of November
We then a^Sin reviewed it in earl;
January."
Collins testified that the Join
Chiefs also referred the matter t(
Secretary of Defense Marshall, bu
added “it remained their opinioi
that targets in China and Man
churia should not be attacked unde;
the conditions that then existed.”
I
MEMORIAL DAY TO
BE OBSERVED WITH
CEREMONIES,PARADE
•. Memorial Day will be observed
locally with simple ceremonies and
a parade on Wednesday morning.
Units will form at the subport at
10:45 am. with ceremonies begin
ning at 11. The Rev. Walter Sobo
leff will give a prayer before a
wreath of flowery is dropped over
the side of the dock in honor of
those who have died at sea. Taps
will be sounded and the firing squad
will fire a volley.
. The parade will then go to the
Federal building where a speech
will be made. From the Federal
building, the parade continues to
Evergreen remetery for ceremonies
there. Major Erie Newbould, of the
Salvation Army, will offer a prayer
followed by a volley from the firing
squad and taps.
Units in the parade will be Head
quarters, Headquarters and Service
Co.. 208th Infantry Battalion. Alaska
National Guard; Headquarters and
Headquarters Detachment, Alaska
National Guard; Veterans of For
eign Wars; American Legion posts
of Juneau and Auk Bay; National
Guard drill team, and the Filipino
Community.
All veterans’ organizations are ap
pealing to their members to turn
cut for the parade sponsored jointly
by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and
the American Legion posts.
The National Guard drill team is
expected to highlight the Memorial
I .ay ceremonies. These men, wearing
special uniforms, have been practic
ing for several weeks. They will fur
nish the color guard and firing
squads for the dock-side and grave
■■d'L ' ceremonies and lead the parade.
The drill team made its first pub
lic appearance when it acted as
honor guard for Gov. Earl Warren
of California when he arrived here
recently. The team’s second appear
ance was in the Armed Forces Day
parade.
Members of the drill team are in
Headquarters, Headquarters and
Service Co., 208th Infantry Bat
talion, Alnska National Guard. They
are M Sgt. Robert, Howell, Set. Car
lisle Casperson. Cpl. Leslie Hogins,
Pic. Earl Crass, Pvt. Terry Pegues.
Cpl. Paul Willett, Pfc. Ralnh Trcf
fers, Cpl. Lee Nance, Pfc. Dale Os
terman, Cpl. Sam James, Pvt. Mar
tin Ebona, Pvt. Vincent Isturis. Lt.
A1 Marcum has been assisting in
their training.
SALMON INDUSTRY
UPS FISH PRICES
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 26 —
l/p—'The Salmon Industry has upped
the ante to the International Long
shoremen’s and Warehousemen s
union-affiliated Salmon Seiners
union.
The industry offere'tl 47 cents
each for pink salmon—predomin
ant species in Southeast Alaska—
which is a 14 per cent increase over
last year’s 40 cents. The offer also
included:
Chums—70 cents each compared
with 60 cents last year: Cohoes—90
cents compared with 80; Reds—$1.03
compared with 90 cents; and Kings
- $2.30 compared with $1.05.
SPORTSMEN’S CERTIFICATES
AT SKINNER’S GUN SHOP
Members of the Territorial
S]>ortsmen, Inc. who have not re
ceived their certificates of mem
bership may pick them lip at Skin
ner’s Gun Shop.
• •
• WEATHER REPORT •
o Temperatvre tor 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o clock this morning
• In Juneau — Maximum,
• 54; minimum, 44.
• At Airport — Maximum,
• 58; minimum, 44.
•
• FORECAST
• Partly cloudy with a few
• light rain showers tonight
• and Sunday. Lowest tonight
• near 40, highest Sunday
• about 58.
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
• City of Juneau — .10 inche. ;
' • Since May 1 — 3.81 inches;
• Since July 1 — 7186 inches.
• At Airport — Trace;
• Since May 1 — 2.14 Inches;
• • Since July 1 — 41.41 inches.
• •••••••••
BPWC MEMBERS
MEET FOR BIENNIA!.
CONVENTION HERE
Mrs. Cecelia Galey. National Fed
eration of Business and Profession
al Women’s Clubs legislative chair
man and Miss Ruth McGrew, An
chorage, President of the Territor
ial BPW Clubs, arrived in Juneau
by plane Friday to be the first out
of-town club members to arrive for
the Second Biennial Territorial
convention of BPWC.
Delegates from other clubs will
arrive during Saturday and reg
istration will begin in the Baranof
Hotel convention headquarters ai
3 p.lu. today.
At 2:30 this afternoon, the Ter
ritorial Board is to meet in room
207 of the Baranof.
Radio Interviews
Mrs. Galey, the visiting national
officer, is from Sweet Home, Ore
gon, where she practices law with
her husband. She was graduated
from Reed College and the Uni
versity of Oregon, has been Oregon
state president of the Business and
Professional Women since 1940
and is now national legislative
chairman. She has two children,
Ann, 10 and Mike 15.
Mrs. Galey and Miss McGrew,
Alaska state president, whose home
is ill Anchorage, will be Interviewed
over KINY at 5:45 p.m. today by
Mrs. Elton Engstrom, legislative
chairman of the Juneau club.
Banquet Tonight
There will be a welcoming ban
quet in the Baranof Gold room at
7 o’clock tonight when Mrs. Galey
will be the speaker of the evening.
Frances Paul and Jane McMullin
will provide music during the ban
quet and there will be a reception
jin the hotel for Mrs. Galey and
! Miss McGrew after the dinner pro
gram.
Sunday
Real business of the convention
will begin at 9 o'clock Sunday
morning when it will be formally
opened In the Baranof Gold room.
There will be adjournment lor
church at 10:30 a.m. and luncheon
at 12:30 in the Gold room. A “work
hop” session between 2:30 and
4:30 p.m. will have Mrs. Galey as
discussion leader.
A reception in the Scottish Rite
Temple between 5 and 7 p.m. Sun
day will give the visiting delegates
an opportunity to meet Juneau
people and Juneauites a chance to
greet the visitors.
The busy day will end with an
evening program . meeting which
will be called to order in the Gold
Uuom oi the Baranof at 8 o'clock.
I lion, until 9:30 Monday morning
when they meet lor another busi
ness session, the club members can
call their time their own.
Monday noon there will be lunch
eon in the Baranof Gold room fol
lowed by a meeting that will com
plete unfinished business, election
of officer.;, reports.
At 5 p.m. Monday will be a tea
at the Governor’s House.
Final events of the three day
convention will be an installation
banquet Monday night at the Coun
try club. Mrs. Galey will be instal
ling officer.
Mrs. William L. Paul is conven
| 'ion chairman for the Territorial
! federation and has arranged all oi
| thedtails oi club meetings.
Mrs. Edna Heaton Lornen was
chairman oi the group who met
Mis. Galey and Miss McGrew when
they arrived in Juneau Friday and
planned the entertainment for the
visitors.
Chairman of the Juneau delega
tion is Mrs. Betty McCormick and
Mrs. Jean Becker is secretary.
Special Guest
Mrs. Henry Roe Cloud of Port
land, Ore., who was named the
national Mother of the Year 1950,
will be a special guest. She arrived
here yesterday from Mt. Edgecumbe
where,she had delivered the com
mencement address. She is a lull
blood Chippewa Indian and is on
the Board of Directors of the Gen
eral Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Her traveling companion is Mrs
E. W. Haggerty of Oswego, Ore.
PVT. ItICHAKD PENROD
IS VISITING PARENTS
Pvt. Richard J. Penrod is home
on furlough visiting his parents Mr
and Mrs. Max W. Penrod. He 1:. sta
tioned with the 105th Field Artillery
at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, and has beet:
in the Army for about six months
Pvt. Penrod was a graduate of the
Juneau High school in 1947 and wa
in his junior year at the University
of Eastern New Mexico, Tortales
New Mexico, when inducted lnt<
the Army. He returns the first o
June to Ft. Sill.
Demos Meet
!;i Chicago
Next Year
DENVER, May 26 - l/l’l — The
Democratic National committer
voted today to hyld i!; 1952 presi
dential nomination convention in
Chicago.
William M. Boyle Jr., chairman
of the National Committee, was au
thorized to fix the date, expected I
to be the week of July 21 — two I
weeks after the Republicans pick
their nominee in the same city.
Chicago offered to match a $250,
000 expense fund posted by Phila
delphia which bid unsuccessfully
for the convention.
Philadelphia also had off red
fringe benefits in addition to the
check.
The Democrats specified that Chi
cago must put up half the fund by
next Dec. 1 and the remainder by
March 1, 1952.
REPFBLICANS ( IIAI.LFA'GED
DENVER, May 26 — 6PI - 'leino
crats gave the west a stronger voice:
in the choice of Chicago of their
1952 presidential candidate as they
challenged (he Republicans today
on foreign policy.
A reapportionment of delegates,
approved by the party’s national
committee in a one day sew ion here
gave California 14 additional votes
out of the 1,230 to be represented
in the nominating convention the
week of July 21, 1952.
Other state* with gains included
Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Wis
consin and Wyoming. fou’\q*cb,-a '
Texas, Virginia and Washington
two each.
Iteapportionme nts
Based on population changes, and
1948 election results, tlv* ■ added
votes veil be offset oy losses in
states whicn .ailed to return ma
jorities to President Truman in 194.;
and thus lost their "bonus” of four
delegates each. States which lost
in the 1950 population census were
not penalized by the committee’s
decision.
Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware
Louisiana, Mississippi, New Hamp
shire, New Jersey, New York, Ore
gon, Pennsylvania and South Caro
lina each lost four delegates, Mary
land and Michigan lost two vote
each.
Shift in Voting Power
The 1,230 total was four less than
that represented in the 1948 con
vention when Mr. Truman was
nominated.
The shift- in voting power cut into
the big state hold on the party con
vention. as represented by New York
and Pennsylvania, California moved
above Illinois, which stood station
ary 60 votes.
As an indication that the Demo
crats are willing to go all-out in sup
port of President Truman’s program
for fighting a limited war in Korea
William M. Boyle, Jr., the national
chairman, challenged Republicans
to make foreign affairs an issue
next year.
Boyle told a windup dinner meet
ing here last night that if the Re
hublicans insist upon making to. -
j eign policy an issue, "we will meet
; them on that ground and the Re
publican party will suffer a de-feui
| from which it may never recover.’
SHELDON JACKSON
! GRADUATES GIVEN
DIPLOMAS FRIDAY
SITKA. Alaska, May 26 (Special
to the Empire)—At Commencement
exercises at Sheldon Jackson chool
Friday diplomas were presented to
I the following students: Mary Baines
j Jones, two years Junior College,
Margaret Ahmaogak, Hoy Brendible.
Ruth Fawcett, Lila Gray, James
Houston, Charles Johnson, Jr.
Willard Jones, Roscoe Max, Jr.,
Robert McBrayer, Margaret Mer
cado, Fiances Nannuuck, Donald
Natkong, Byron Skinna, Sarah
Thomas, Albert Wellington, Ronald
Williams, who have completed four
years of high school.
An honor certificate of cornpet
: ent Christian citizenship was pre
sented to Senator Percy Ipalook
. of the class of 1930 of Sheldon
1! Jackson, In recognition for out
’ standing service to the church and
| to the people of Alaska.
BIG VICTORY
BLOW BEING
STRUCK NOW
All-Out Offensive Report
ed Stepped Up Hourly
Slam Across Border
By OLBN CLENETS
TOKYO, May 2<i —iff)— Allied
tank-infantry columns swarmed
into Red Korea all along the 125
tnilo battlefront today in hot pur
suit of beaten and fleeing Commun
ists.
They were stepping up hourly the
pace of the all-out offensive pro
claimed Friday by their commander,
Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet.
AP Correspondent Jim Becker
said it appeared the Allied com-'
manders “were striking a daring
blow for victory."
Communists were surrendering in
‘unprecedented” numbers, Becker
reported in n front dispatch.
Pell-Mell Flight
Red troops jammed the roads to
the north in pell-mell flight. They
had abandoned their tactics of
waiting until nightfall to move. Al
lied planes hammered at these wide
open targets.
"We've never seen anything like
it before,” a U. S. 8th Army brief
ing officer said. He added, "Amaz
ing.”
The Allies too had abandoned
their maneuver of the slow advance.
They slammed across the border into
Red Korea In A -half-dozen placer..
Allied troops were shifting into high
gear in their northward thrust from
the Yollow Sea to the Sea of Japan.
Commanders expressed concern
over 60,000 fresh Chinese troops
known to be close to the front, but
they appeared to be relying on Al
lied high mobility to meet any pos
sible thrust. One officer said:
"Any time you go out for the
whole put you’ve got to take a
chance.”
Swarm Over Border
Allied troops were across the bor
der — from east to west — at Yang
yang, Inje, near Hwachon and
northwest of Chunchon, and north
east of Uijongbu. In the extreme
west, UN forces were strung along
the border at several points.
There were so many Chinese dead
on some hills, one officer said, "you
have to be careful not to step on
them.”
U. S. Doughboys rammed up the
main Central Korean highway
northwest of captured Chunchon in
a pouring rain and rolled aoout two
miles beyond the 38th Parallel.
Opposition Light
Red opposition was light as the
infantry column stabbed within six
miles of Hwachon, a former key
Chinese bastion eight miles north of
the pre-war political boundary.
To the east, American and French
troops smashed through Chinese
screening forces and swept up the
Hongchon-Inje road. The thrust
opened a direct supply route to the
Allied bridgehead across the Cho
yang river oil the East-Central
front.
Trap Tightened
The link-up with the bridgehead
tightened the trap on suicidal Chi
nese fighung rearguard actions to
keep open a six-mile escape route
in the mountains near the road.
The American-French link-up
column knocked out Red resistance
along the important Hongchon
Inje road. The Infantrymen captur
ed six important hills commanding
the route.
A U. S. task force reached Inje
and South Korean forces to the
east were reported to have occupied
Yangyang. six miles north of the
38th Parallel on the east coast.
Fast Moving Advance
Fast-moving Allied units knifed
across Ahe Parallel at several points
on the East-Central and Eastern
fronts Saturday. They advanced
against almost no opposition from
Chinese who. an officer said, sur
rendered "in numbers.”
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