The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. LXXII, NO. 11,179 Red Forces Strike Lightning Blows Family Reunion PROGRAM ON HEALTH IS INTRODUCED Truman’s Far-Reaching | Measure Placed Before Congress for Action | By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON, April 25.—(#— Legislation to carry out Presi- dent Truman’'s far-reaching health | program was introduced in Con- gress today. The kill calls for payroll-tax in- surance to provide medical, hospital | and dental care for about 120,000,- | 000 Americans at a sponsor-esti- mated cost of around $6,000,000 a | year. | The Administration measure also | would put into eifect all the other | phases of Mr. Truman's program. Those include federal grants for medical education, hospital con-| struction, public health services | and research. The bill also auth- orizes an experimental program‘l of federal aid to farmers’ health cooperatives. A sponsor’s statement accom-| panying the bill was signed by| Senator Elbert D. Thomas (D-| Utah), chairman of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Commit- tee and nine other Senators. Not a single Republican’s name was on the list of sponsors. Some | Republicans—as well as some Dem-‘ ocrats—have branded the Presl—1 dent’s national health insurance program “socialized medicine.” But the sponsors, in their ]omt\ statement, retorted that substitute | “voluntary” plans backed by Sena- tor Taft (R-Ohio) and others trav- el “the sure road to socialized med- icine.” The backers of the President's program called their payroll tax plan “the tried and tested demo-| cratic way.” They added: “In fact, it is the only way we know of to avoid socialized medi- (TR Endurance Fliers \ May Come Down Tomorrow;Sleepy. FULLERTON, Calif, April 25— (M—Endurance fliers Bill Barris| and Dick Riedel have the flying record to themselves. Their com-} petitors were forced down at Yuma, Arizona, yesterday after 74 hours | in the air. Barris and Riedel plan to dcs-; cend tomorrow after 1,008 hours of | solid flying, and they ere getting mighty sleepy. — e e MEN’S CHORUS REHEARSAL The Men’s Chorus will rehearse tonight at 7:15 o'clock at the Odd Fellows Hall, and all members are asked to be on time. The Wasfiglou Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — Keep your| eye on the stubby little man mth‘ the gavel in his hand at Lake Suc-| cess. Herbert E. Evatt, Foreign| Minister of Australia and President of the U. N. General Assembly, 1s| the quiet center of the East-West cyclone. He is not afraid to make enemies for himself in his eflorts to make peace. | Evatt used to be the trigger-| man in counter-attacking the Sov-| jets. Now he is leaning over back- ward to be fair, and bangs his| gavel to protect the Russians as well as the Anglo-Saxons. One day last week Evatt refused to let U. S. Ambassador Austin come to the defense of the Atlantic Pact, after Soviet Gromyko had at- tacked it. Reason: Austin had just spoken on another subject, and| Evatt made him wait his turn. | The Australian is a human dyna- mo, and sometimes a grouchy o1 . When he rides from the Drake Ho- tel in Manhattan to Lake Success in the Cadillac limousine assign- ed to him, he sits up front with the chauffeur, writhing with im- " (Continued op Pue Four) bgin, vice president | Academy of Sciences, | Rozge had told the congress that| S L There Goes Daddy Ten-year-old Dickie Riedel points with pride out the window of his home at Midway City, Calif., when his father Dick Riedel flies over in the small plane in which he and Bill Harris have already set a new enduranee mark. because of a $5,000 check given by now get proper medical care. With the dog. Tippy Tces the cat, and Dickie is confined to his bed with arthritis, but a petroleum company Dickie can Dickie are his three pals: “Spunky Hopper the rabbit. » Wirephoto. PEACETAL ADVANCED AT PARIS MEET Declares Capitalism, Com- munist Can Live Peace- | fully Side by Side | By CARL HARTMAN . PARIS, April 25—®—V. P. Vol-| of the Su\‘xetL told the| Communist-led “World Congress | for Peace” today that capitalism | and Communism can live peace- |fully side by side. [ Volgin said this in backing up a | statement made to the congress| Saturday by O. John Rogge, former tant U. S. Attorney Geperal. | the United States is not threatened | by the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union is not threatened by the Uniteq States. “This gives people a different outlock om the prospects for world peace,” said Volgin, who heads the Soviet Academy’s history ' and philosophy department. The con- gress cheered him, Volgin took exception, however, to Rogge’s criticlsms of the Soviet Union. Rogge drew boos and cat- calls Saturday when he said there was insufficient freedom for po- litical minorities in Russia. “He is talking about something he knows nothing about,” Volgin said. “Every unprejudiced person can see in the Soviet Union that exploitation of man by man does not exist.” ‘Fiying Discs Are Again Reporfed In California Air SAN DIEGO, April 25—® The flying discs are back again. A dozen persons reported seeing them —flying across a valley at 2,000 feet., A “san Diego newspaper reported that experiments with radio-guid- %d targets of a description similar to the discs are being conducted from Muroc Air Base in the Mo- jave Desert. Howevef, officials at the Air Base denied knowledge of the discs scen yesterday. ———————— FROM WHITTIER V. O. Mount of Whittier regis- tered over the weekend at the Gastineau Hotel, Ameman Mother Of Year Is Named By (ommlflee "YORK, Aplfl 25—(P—The Amqlcan mother of the year is a tiny, 60-year | woman, the wife of a postal worker 1 in Fort VVL)l'thI ‘Tex. Mrs. Pearle Owens Gillis was| named last night by the National | Mothers committee of the Golden Rule Foundation. Mrs. Gillis raised six children of her own, and helped educate eight others. The family she raised and helped educate now is engaged in many fields, including radio and college teaching. Her husband is Earle A. Gillis. — e — 'ALASKA MEASURE IS VETOED BY TRUMAN; ALSO THREE OTHERS WASHINGTON, April 25—P— President Truman today sent back to Congress his first legislative ve-{pcius D. Clay toes of the present session. He returned to the House, with- out his approval, four relief mea- sures passed by the Democratic- controlled 81st Congress. They included: A bill (HR. 581) giving jurisdic- tion to the District Court for Al- aska to pass upon claims of Hudx‘ Links, E. J. Ohman and Fred L. Kroesing of Anchorage, Alaska., They are seeking repayment for losses sustained in the mink ranch business rising out of dir flights and maneuvers of the United States Armed Forces. It appears that such noise from low flying planes excites the mink | and causes them to destroy their young. The claimants cohtended 452 of 518 mink were destroyed in that way in 1941. ‘fhey said they had to dispose of their mink farms at a total loss of $32,000. The Prgsident sald his objection to the bill was gt its present form. He said it would preclude the govern- ment from making a proper de-| fense. He said he would be glad to sign a bill properly drafted. TOM McCAULS RETURN FROM VACATION TRIP Mr. and Mrs Tom McCaul, Auk Bay residents, returned on the Princess Louise after spending the winter outside. They visiteq friends and relatives in Phoenix, Los Angeles and Seattle as well 2¢ other Pacific coast cities. They ported seeing many former Alss- kans during their travels. The Mc- Caul's were caught in the recent Eeattle earthquake and were too happy to return here. old Kentucky-born | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MO NDAY, APRIL 25, 1949 EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SULLIVAN MAY QUIT, | SECY. NV Reported Dissatisfied with Future Role in De- fense Siraiegy WASHINGTON, ALlll 25— John L. Sullivan’s decision wheth- er to resign as Secretary of the Navy appeared today to rest with | President Truman. | Sullivan’s intimates indicated he ’\‘Ould seck a heart-to-heart talk with the Chief Executive on the Navy's future role in defense strat- page on the 6,000-ton super air- craft carrier “United States.” Sullivan he had no comment on the de- cision pending study of Secretary | of Defense Johnson's order Satur- | day discontinuing work on the | $189,000,000 vessel. | He is known to hold grave doubts 1whcther he can stay on at his post in view of his differences with| Johnson security policies. | the view is concerned. been Sullivan He had already conisdered lack on consultation with him in the drafting of amend- {ments to the Armed £ervices Uni- | fication Act. At the same time, say that he still feels loyal his position in the Navy is too un- 1939 when Britain and France de- clared war on Germany. and its keel had been laid only | last Monday Gen. (Iay Tells 0f Cerfain Way TolnsurePeace Sends Message fo Asso- ciated Press af Annual Convention, N. Y. | NEW YORK, April 25.—(#— Gen ernor in Germany, said today “the jonly sure way to peace” is in the formation of an association of the cluding Germany. “The formation of an association ’or the free nations of Western Eu- | rope with ~Germany integratc d| therein will create a lasting sta- kility in Europe and will not only | hreat of Communist ex- end the pansion, but will made it diffi- cult for the Communist front to keep intact,” Clay said. “It is the only sure way to peace.” Clay made the statement in a message to members of the Asso- ciated Press, worldwide news gath- ering cooperative, at their annual luncheon in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The message was read by J. Wes Gallagher, AP Chief of Bur in Germany. G sher and Harold K. Milks, AP correspondent at Nanking, an- ot her ‘(h‘ spot reports of conditions In| many and China. t a business meeting earlier, members voted for six direct- ors and acted on the applications | of 17 associate members for regu- | 1ar membership. AP President Robert McLean pre- sided. McLean is president also of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, The board of directors, in its an- nual report, said there was a con- tinuation of a trend by governments \broad to control the news. e WAKEFIELD HERE | the Major J. H. Wakefield from Port Wakefield arrived in Juneau yescerday, and is staying at the Baranof Hotel, egy as the aftermath of work stop= | himself said only that| Top White House aides expressed that the knocking out of the carrier was “the straw that broke the camel’s back” so far as| reported | to have felt aggrieved by what he his friends to President Truman and doesn’t want to leave Government service unless , U. S. Military Gov- | free nations of Western Europe, in-| luncheon speaker, gave on-| P i from Germany. Bailey. (® Wirephoto. IMPORTANT - DECISIONS, HIGH COURT The Supreme Court held in effect ‘thny that employers must bar- gain with unions on worker pen- sion plans, 5 However, only companies subject to federal laws—that is, firms | whose goods cross state lines—are affected. Likewise the unions in- volved must be eligible to use Na- ticnal Labor Relations board ma- | chinery. In other actions today .the high court: 1. Declined to consider an attack on the constitutionality of a Cali- fornia Senate resolution which cstaklished the * American Activities committee. Validity of the resclution was | questioned by Vern Smith after he |was convicted of refusing to be swern as a witness before the com- mittee. He was fined $300. The California Superior Court, in Alameda County, upheld the reso- lution. It directs the committee to investigate activities of persons or groups “known or suspected to be foreign dominated or controlled and -to recommend legislation for their regulation.” Smith contended a state may not |thus “enter the field of foreign affairs.” | 2. Upheld, 5 to 4, a California *ilaw banning the sale of travel tickets ty unlicensed carriers. Dis- | senting, Justice Frankfurter con- | tended the effect of the ruling was 1(0 hold that states may impose ad- ditional penalties for covered by federal law. 3. Upheld by 6 to 3 votes two wart'me Courts Martial convictions of American soldiers on rape charges. One case involved Pfc. Frederick W. Wade, serving a 20- year sentence at Leavenworth, Kas., after two trials in Germany. The other involved Pvt. Bernard W: Smith, serving 18 years at Lewis- burg, Pa., as a result of his con- viction in England. 4. Agreed to a request by Puerto Rico to rule on the power of Con- gress to limit trade between the offenses inamed yesterday to head the Pacific WASHINGTON, April 25—(P—| | John Mrs. Wilma Ybarbo (left) who was ordered released by Gen. Lusefus D. Clay from the German prison where she had been serving a sentence for shooting her scldier husband, helds her son Jimmy, five, at her mother’s home in New Bedford, Mas Embracing both is Wilma's mother, Mrs. Eunice , after her arrival by air Holzworth Is Acqullled Took . Two Days fo Secure Jury But tenakble to permit him to stay on.| | He came into the government in' ~ Only30 Mmules for Verdid The giant carrier was to have| been built at Newport News, Va,,; ANCHORAGE, Apl‘fl 25 — B — Holzworth, attorney and salesman who has been a prominent foe of Governor Gruening, was ac- quitted Saturday on a charge of writing a $28.50 check with fraud- ulent intent. The case operied Wednesday in Commissioner’s Court. Two days were spent in selecting a jury. It tock just 30 minutes for it to bring in a verdict. The trial was highlighted by a flare of tempers ty the defendant, serving as his own attorney, at- torneys and witnesses. One clash was when Holzworth ;accused Eail Cooper, United States attorney, of “framing” him. Pre- viously he had accused Cooper of being a “Gruening henchman.” Highlights of the final day of the hearing included the appear- ance of Judge Anthony J. Dimond and Postmaster Herb Brown on the witness stand, after both were subpoenaed by Holzworth, Holzworth asked Judge Dimond a long, hypothetical question which e % |seemed to be aimed at finding out fact finding” un-|yney gudge Dimond would do if in his court. The inclined to answer the case were judge was not fluently. Pc:tmaster Brown was questioned Ly Holzworth as to tHe legality of a hotel seizing his (Holzaworth's) mail and holding it along with his belongings. ———e HEINTZLEMAN IS NAMED VICE-PRES. PNT ASSOCIATION BELLINGHAM, Wash.,, April 25. —(M—Kenneth M. Kennell, vice president and general manager of the Shaffer Terminals, Tacoma, was Northwest Trade Association for the coming year. Kennell, a past president of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, succeeds E. L. Skeel of Seattle. Other officers elected included: B. Frank Heintzleman, Juneau, Alaska, vice president for Alaska, e, FROM KETCHIKAN Here from Ketchikan and regis- tered at the Baranof are J. E. Danielson and J. P. Valentine. —— FROM PETERSBURG . Rinehart i3 registered at the * Gastineau from Petersburg. NAVY IS TO MOVE SHIPS ON YANGTZE Americans in Shanghm fo Be Evacuated-Move- ment Up fo Them SHANGHAI, Apri! 25— (P — The U.S. Navy disclosed today it soon would move itz ships from their .| Shanghai anchorage to the lower Yangtze estuary to avoid involve- ment in the civil war. Americans were warned that it they wanted to go along, they should report to the U.S. Consu- late immediately. Although the announcement by the U.S. Consul General John Cabot did not say so specifically, this was censtrued as the first step in the cmergency evacuation of Americans! from this great city which has| come under threat of the Chinese Civil War, Amcricans were warned that if they board Navy ships they might Inot be permitted to land again. It was acknowledged this warn- incidents on the Yangtze where by Ccmmunist shore batteries which disregarded the neutral British flag and improvised white: flag. I | Rear Adm. C. G. Crawlord is the, _ |commander of American Naval forces at Shanghai, although the announcement bty the Consulate did not name him. STUART IS 'ORDEREDTO | (OME HOME u.s. Ambassador fo China' Instructed fo Returnfo | ’ Washinglon Now | WASHINGTON, April 25 —®—} The State Department said mdayl J. Leighton Stuart, U. 8. Ambassa- dor to China, has been ordered home for consultations. ¥ Stuart is now in Communist-! seized Nanking, the former capital of Nationalist China. Before the Communists moved in, the Department said, Stuart; was told that he should return af-' | ter the safety of Americans in the lower Yangtze Valley is assured. Stuart is to make the trip to Washington when he considers it advisable.” Officials here assume there will b no restrictions on his depart- ure, probably by air, to Shanghai and thence by plane across the Pacific. A branch of the Embassy mean- while is operating at Canton in South China, the refugee National- alist capital. It is In charge of Lewis Clark, Embassy minister-| | counselor. | | BEDROOM ENTERED NANKING, April 25—#—U. $., Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart was awakened at 6:40 a.m, today by the abrupt entrance of armed Communist soldiers into his bed-} room. The first three soldiers spoke rudely to the Ambassador, but!} were joined later by several others | who explained more civilly that they | wished to inspect the premises. The Ambassador, his staff and property were not otherwise mo- lested. Edward Anderberg, Embassy At-| tache who lives with Stuart, was ordered back into his bedroom| when he sought to join Stuart. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aprii 25.—f—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3'2, American Can 92%, Anaconda 30, Curtiss- Wright 9%, International Harvest- er 23%, Kennecott 43%, New York Central 11%, Northern Pacific 14%, U. 8. Steel 71%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 740,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: | ing was made because of last week’s| four British warships were shelled; In China ARMY IS NEARING SHANGHAI Communists—Moving To- | ward Sea o Trap 300,- t 000-Nanking Taken By FRED HAMPSON SHANGHAI, April 25—(®— Red armies aimed a lightning blow tow- ard the sea at Hangchow today Ihopmg to trap 300,000 Nationalist troops below Shanghai. Other Communist forces, which Ilook Manking yesterday without effort, were reported just 19 miles from Shanghal. Residents of this the world's fourth largest city, wait« ed in a steady rain for the Reds. But none had showed up 4t dusk. Shanghai seemingly was being bypnssed But none could say for sure. Even military spokesmen ad- mitted they did not know just where the Red armies were. The feeling grew among Shang- hal’s 5,000,000 inhabitants that the ereat Asiatic commercial center would go over to the Communists without a fight, just as Nanking did Sunday morning. Nanking Falls Quietly Seymour Topping, Associated Press correspondent in Nanking, re- ported that the former Nationalist capital received = the Communists quietly at.3:20 a.m. Sunday, Nan- king time. One of the Commun- ist soldiers’ first acts was to put out a fire that vandals had started in the Judicial Yuan building. The building was a total loss. The Communists took their sta- ! tions beforée some foreign embassies and all_ ut.littes in placed before the American Em- bassy, however, During the afternoon three gov- . ernment planes tried to hit gaso- iline and ammunition dumps at -bulldings snd the Nanking a; t. Communist spokesmen said they overshot their mark. Another Capture At the time Nanking fell, the Communist radio a Pelping an- nounced the capture of Taiyuan, Shansi province capital and in- dustrial center 600 miles northwest of Nanking. Talyuan had been un- der siege for months. The radio ,said all of the city's 150,000 defend- ers were wiped out. The refugee situation in Shang- hai is growing serious. Late today roads leading Into the city from the west contained lines of rain- scdden peasants. Most of them had only enough food for a few meals, U. 8. Consul General John Cabot warned American in Shanghal that any wishing haven aboard U. 8. naval ships here should report to 1 the consulate lmmedhtely. I(CLAIMS BRITISH FIRED FIRST SHOT, YANGTZE RIVER Newspaper at Moscow Makes Charges By EDDIE GILMORE MOSCOW, April 25—(/P—Pravda said today British na vessels fired the first shots in last week's j Yangtze river battle. The official Communisf party newspaper said the British had Uolned forces with Chinese na- |tionalist ships and that the Chinese Communists did not dis- cover they had engaged British ships until after the battle. A Tass dispatch from Peiping :quoted the Chinese Sinhua news agency as -its source. “The British government,” said the story, “must bear complete re- sponsibility for the losses suffered by the people’s army of liberation.” The dispatch said the people’s army lost. 262 men in operations against a combined Kuomintang (Chinese nationalist) and British fleet. The dispatch also claimed one of the ships had been sunk and janother one had been hit and “half sunk.” (The British sloop Amethyst was industrials 17364, rails 4731, util- itles 35,43, !temporarily grounded after the battle but was refloated.) . No guards wepe - Official Communist Party b