The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”’ VOL. LXXV.,, NO. 11,568 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 81, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED l’l{lm\ PRICE TEN CENTS -1 U. S. Reinforce Famed Global Way fo Juneau SEATTLE, July 31—(®—Famed global explorer Lowell Thomas left here today for Juneau, Alaska. He said he would meet with Bernt Balchen, Polar explorer and commander of Arctic Rescue | Squadron 10, but declined to dis- | cuss the purpose of his expedition. “We are off on another Jjunket,” | Thomas said, “but I can't say ex-| actly where we are going or what we have in mind. “We do know we aren't using| yaks this time,” he added. He was refering to his near- fatal injury on a recent expedition to Tibet. His cameraman, John Roberts, is accumpanylng him to Alaska. 10TH RESCUE SKI PLANE HERE FOR (-54 SEARCH, JIRP A second objective was added to the mission of the 10th Rescue Squadron aircraft which arrived yesterday for scheduled trips to the Juneau Ic Cap. The ski-wheel twin-engined airplane has joined | in the search for the missing C-54, believed down about 90 miles from here. The C-5¢ from Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, was (0 make at least two glacier landings with personnel and supplies for the Juneau Icefield Research Project (JIRP) of which the American Geographioal Society is the main | sponsor. With several JIRP mem- | bers, pilots and crew were out at! the airport today, waiting for a‘ weather break. Capt. F. Sparrvohen is pilot and‘ Lt. Victor Rudd. Zr., co-pilot. They are staying at the Baranof Hotel. GAMETONIGHT After more than a week's rain, the Gastineau Channel Baseball league will resume play tonight at 6:30 o’clock with the Moose nine playing host to the Coast Guard. A win by the Moose will put them in a two- way tie for second place with the Guard. A win by the Guard will leave the teams in their present order. BRACELEN-QUINN MARRIAGE APPLICATION IS MADE Application for a marriage license was made to Commissioner Gordon Gray Friday by John Stanley Bra- " celen and Miss Joan Elaine Quinn. Mr. Bracelon is a mechanic with Alaska Coastal Airlines and Miss Quinn a medical technician at St. Ann’s Hospital. The Washington Merry - Go-Round Bv DREW PEARSON ICopyright, 19%. by Bell Syndicate, Inec.) WSH[NGTON — How far the capital of the supposedly free Uni- ted States has adopted Moscow’s police state methods is shown in a highly confidential report in wire- tapping which long has gathered dust in the files of the Justice Department. . The facts in this wire-tapping scandal read like a detective story. One of the most lurid wire-tapping jobs was on the Argentine Ambas- sador, Jeronimo Remorino, and Nina Lunn Luttrell, granddaughter of ex-senator Wallace White of Maine. The most interesting thing about this eavesdropping is that it is done by the metropolitan police, at the expense of the taxpayers. Since the District of Columbia is a Federal area, all the taxpayers from Seattle to Miami help pay for this divorce case wire-tapping on the government’s time. In the case of the Argentine Ambassador, Lieut. Joseph Shimon, who did the wire-tapping, was. paid not only his regular police salary, but $5.000 by the husband of Nina Lunn. While peeping at the Ar- gentine ambassador, of course, Lieut. Shimon was supposed to be (Continued on Page Four) FOSTER TO LEAVE; Explorer onluueuwmnoni NEW ANS DIRECTOR Don C. Foster, Alaska Native Serv- lce Director, has been transferred | Minneapolis, where he will be | area director for the Bureau of In- | dian Affairs. He will assume his | new duties September 1 or shortly aftet. Hugh J. Wade has been appointed | ANS director, effective August 20, according to word received here from Dillon S. Myer, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Wade is Deputy Regional Director of the Federal Security Agency. Foster came here in April, 1944 fairs, his title being general super- intendent before the tion. The Fosters will leave as soon as they dispose of their home at Auk | ay. Their son, Don Max Foster, who | has completed his freshman year‘ at the Eastern University of New Mexico in Portalis, is working this summer at Valdez. He probably will attend the University of Minnesota, according to his father. The Fos- ters have a daughter, Kara Lee, who is 13 years old. As area director with headquar- ters in Minneapolis, Foster will be | in charge of Indian reservations in Minneapolis, Wisconsin, and Iowa o of a mwunber of in- dependent agencics u.aer the dis- trict ofrice. Before coming to Juneau, Foster was for seven years at the Carson, Nevada, agency. The Wades are long-time resi- dents of Juneau, where Hugh Wade was with the Federal Bureau of In- | vestigation before being named to Alaska head of the bureau now known as the Federal Security Agency In 1937. He is in Washington, D.C, and expects to return about August 15. LEOPOLD TO ABDICATEIN SON'SFAVOR BRUSSELS, July 31—®—King Leopold III agreed today to step aside temporarily in favor of his son, Prince Bauduin, and to abdicate when the Prince reaches 21 next year. The King’s decision was disclosed as the crisis over his return from exile ten days ago threatened to plunge the nation into civil war. The vanguard of an army of anti- Leopoldists was reported already marching on Brussels. Three anti- Leopoldists were Kkilled by gen- darmes last night in Liege. This climaxed a wave of violence and strikes which had paralyzed the na- tion’s economy. SUPERFORTS FOR KOREA WASHINGTON, July 31 — (® — The Air Force announced today that it is sending additional B-29 superfortresses to the Far East. The announcement did not desig- nate the units nor the air bases from which they will be sent. Planes from two B-29 groups were dispatched to the Far East from U. S. bases July 3. Pilot Is Burned fo Death in Plane Crash, Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 31— (A—An unidentified pilot burned to death yesterday when a small sil- ver-colored plane crashed and burned near the site” of the new International Airport, five miles south of here. Territorial highway officers said the victim appeared to be a man, but no identity was established. The badly burned body was brought to an Anchorage funeral home. The plane was demolished. reorganiza- | Michigan | | one during the fourth annual Gol- .| den North Salmon Derby over the | to head the Office of Indian Af- | how | Chevrolet | the top 12 awards, with the weight | day’s fishing. ‘Woman Fisher Is Winnerin Salmon Derby She Hooks 36-Pound, 3- Ounce King in Auk Bay | ~Event Successful One Mrs. Juneau A. W. (Thelma) Boddy, a! housewife, landed the big| | weekend to walk away with the top award. It is the second year in a row that a woman has shown the men | to get results with fishing tackle. Mrs. John Clements was the | 1949 winner Mrs. Boddy—and a crowd of less fortunate anglers — faced choppy seas, rain, and tide-rips during the three-day classic as they tried for the 65 awards offered the best fish- ermen, The 36-pound 3-ounce king which brought Mrs. Boddy a 1950 DeLuxe sedan was hooked yes- terday morning in Auk Bay and landed after a half-hour struggle by both fish and angler, The Winning fish was the first big king Mrs. Boddy ever landed, her husband, A. W. Boddy, said today. Below are listed the winners of of their winning catches: 1st—Mrs. Boddy, 36 pounds, ounces. 2nd—Gilbert G. Bixby, 35 pounds, 11 ounces. 3 3rd—Pete Schneider, 33 pounds, 5 ounces, 4th—Clifford O. Renzel, 32 pounds, 2 ounces. 5th—D. P. Applegate, 28 pounds, 2 ounces. 6th—Paul Schnee, 27 pounds, 4 ounces. Schnee led the derby with this fish at the end of the first 7th—Elroy Ninnis, 27 pounds. 8th—John C. Willis, 26 pounds, 14 ounces. 9th—R. B. Brown, 26 pounds, 3 ounces. 10th—W. L. Davies, 25 pounds, 1 ounce. This fish was the first caught during the derby. It was taken 25 minutes after the starting gun Fri- day. Gilbert G. Bixby, who took second place, entered another fish weighing 26 pounds, but was not eligible for 10th place award because he had already taken one of the major awards, the judges said. 1ith—Helen F. Worgum, pounds, 8 ounces. 12th—Paul Page, ounces, Mrs. Worgum, who took 11th place, entered another fish weigh- ing 11 pounds, 1 ounce; her hus- band, John Worgum, brought in a 20-pounder. Jack O’Connor, President of the Territorial Sportsmen, which spon- sored the salmon derby, said that there were 41 fish caught which weighed 20 pounds or more. There were some little ones caught, too, he said. Five salmon weighing between five pounds and 5 pounds, 14 ounces, were brought to the scales during the fishing classic. Alaska Department of Fisheries men were on duty at the derby, col- | lecting viscera from the fish to fur- ther the research program on troH salmon. Close to 50 percent of the fish | caught were kings, the rest being | cohoes, O’Connor said. Two dog sal- mon and two humpies were also Geught by the weekend anglers. O'Connor said that many halibut, | cod, bullheads and Irish lords were also included in the catches over| the three days. The Coast Guard cutter Storis and the 83-foot Juneau based cut- | ter 83524 were on duty in the fish- ing area during the derby. Presentation of awards will be made at a ceremony this week. | Where and when the prmntgtmn} ceremony will take place will be an- nounced later, O'Connor said. More than $8,000 was grossed by the derby, he said. And the greater part of this will go toward improv- ing fishing and hunting in the Ju- neau area through stocking fish and game, feeding deer during the worst months of winter, and trans- | planting game to improve specific areas. O’Connor expressed satisfaction with the 1950 derby, terming it “the best so far.” 24 24 pounds, 7 | connections JAIL FACED BY BRIDGES; REVOKE BAIL Government Mak es Mo- tion, Gives Reasons-De- cision Up Wednesday SAN FRANCISCO, July 31—®— The government filed motions today to revoke the $25000 bail upon which Harry Bridges is free. It asked that he be sent to jail. The motions will be argued Wed- nesday before Federal Judge George B. Harris who presided at the long perjury trial in which Bridges was convicted last spring. Bridges, president of the CIO Longshoremen’s Union, was con- | victed of lying in his 1945 citizen- ship hearing by denying he was a Communist. He has since expressed oppesition when some of his union locals proposed resolutions endors- ing fhe United States and United Nations stand in the Forean war. The motions for revocation of bail were drawn by F. Joseph Donohue, | special prosecutor for the U.S. At- torney General, who prosecuted the perjury trial. Donohue said the motions were filed because Bridges “poses a threat to the security of the United States.” The bail was granted last April to permit the longshoremen’s chief to appeal his conviction for perjury, based on a denial of any Communist when he obtained American citizenship in 1945. ‘The San Francisco federal court ordered his citizenship papers can- celled. The Justice Department in an- nouncing the move to put Bridges behind bars while the appeal is pending said: “The motion is made upon the grounds that since the defendant was at lagge on bail he has pursued and will continue to pursue . .. a course of conduct and activities dan- gerous and detrimental to the pub- lic welfare and inimical to the saf- ety and national security of the United States of America.” Bridges yesterday was barred from a radio program in which he planned to explain his views on the Korean war. e e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 53; minimum, 48. At Airport—Maximum, 54; minimum, 46. FORECAST (Juneau and Victnity) Cloudy with intermittent light rain and not much change in temperature to- night and Tuesday. Lowest temperature tonight about 50. Highest Tuesday near 59. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—0.35 inches; since July 1—9.93 inches. At Airport — 0.11 inches; since July 1—7.04 inches. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 21 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 92%, Anaconda 32%, Curtiss- Wright 10%, International Harves- ter 29, Kennecott 60%, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 17%, U.S. Steel 36%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,600,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 209.40, rails 60.86, utilities 37.78. EARL BRIGHT LEAVES FOR KETCHIKAN ON INSPECTION Earl W. Bright, fleet supervisor for the Fish and Wildlife Service, left today for Ketchikan on an in- spection trip and will return to Juneau at mid-week. FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. Louis L. Ray of the U.S. Geologi- cal Survey, Washington, D.C., is at the Baranof Hotel. Another resident of the capital who is at the Bara- nof is Arnold C. Orvedal. AT GASTINEAU HOTEL A. M. Anderson of Seattle is stop= ping at the Gastineau Hotel. ments BRIDGES IS BARRED FROM AIR PROGRAM Commemat;Sidney Rog- ers Also Gives “Swan Song," Broadcasting SAN FRANCISCO, July 31—®— Longshore chief Harry Bridges, har- assed by near-revolts within his waterfront union, was barred yes- terday from a radio program in which he planned to explain his views on the Korean war. The American Broadcasting Com- pany over whose network the pro- gram was to be aired said Bridges’ appearance was cancelled because it covered a “controversial” subject.‘ At the same time, ABC's San Francisco station KGO announced | that it will not renew its contract | with radio c<ummentator Sidney Roger on whose program Bridges was to have spoken. Roger frequently has defended Bridges, in Bridges' legal attempts to retain his citizenship. The Aus- trailian-born labor leader has been ordered deported on grounds that he lied about his Communist affili- ations when he applied for U.S. cit- | izenship. Roger, in his broadcast today, said it was his “swan song” and that he no longer would be heard on the| San Francisco station. Added Roger: “Long before the Korean war the most outspoken liberal commenta- tors went off the air—until I was the last one left in the country as far as I know—and this is my last broxdeast here.” A KGO spokesman said Roger was removed from the air because his views no longer represented any significant group in the community. “They have lied about Bridges "‘ Roger said. “Somebody in Washing- ton wants to put him away so he can’t talk. I, too, have become con- troversial, though my ideas have not changed.” Bridges is at liberty on $25,000 bail pending appeal of his convic- tion of perjury. Only last week Bridges was re- pudiated by one of his longshore and warehouse locals on the ques- tion of endorsing the United Na- tion’s Korean policy. Bridges, rather than endorsing the police action, urged arbitration through the U.N. F & WS (REWS CHECK PINK SALMON RUN NOW | With the season for pink salmon in southeast Alaska due to open August 15, the Fish and Wildife | Service now has nine crews in the | field for the purpose of checkmgK the pink salmon run. Present dates for the short sea- f son, August 15 to September 3, are ! “target dates,” only according to Clarence J. Rhode, FWS regional | director, and should escapement of pinks warrant any change, an earlier opening date might be pos- | sible. FWS crews are operating two | traps in SE Alaska for tagging pur- poses. Indications, so far have | shown a good early run of chums, | but a light pink run. The Kodiak area opens today after a ten day closure between, the red and pink run seasons. The | pink escapement in that area has been good, and a good season is indicated after several bad years, according to Mr. Rhode. TREASURER RODEN BACK IN| OFFICE AFTER BUSINESS TRIP | Territorial Treasurer Henry Roden | is back in his office today after ! a business trip to Seattle. He re- turned to Juneau Saturday. i CAA MAN HERE I Gordon W. Meyer, who is with the Civil Aeronautics Administra-| tion, came in from Porpoise Island | and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. | OGG OF COAST GUARD R. B. Ogg of the U.S. Coast Guard is registered at the Baranof Hotel. | SEATTLEITES HERE Among Seattleites newly regis-| tered at the Baranof Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Hursley, O. Bengseth, Walter Nettleton, Larry | Baldwin, George C. Nickum, A. Nickum, A. Kerzie and Gil Rich. lat the Capitol Theatre would asso- | Seattle Saturday. LATHROP RITES 10 BE HELD THURSDAY INSEATTLE CHURCH SEATTLE, July 31—®—Funeral services for Austin E. Lathrop, Alaska builder and industrialist who was killed Wednesday, will bel held at 3 p.m. Thursday at thei First Methodist church instead of! the Bonney-Watson Funeral Par- lors as originally scheduled. The change was made to accom- modate a large number of persons who expressed the desire to attend the services for the Alaskan pioneer. Twenty-nine Pacific Northwest business and professional men | were named today as active and honorary pallbearers. They are: Active pallbearers: Peter Schmidt, | Olympia; B. F. Shearer, Charlesl Frankland, Henry F. Waechter, L.’ W. Baker and Mark Jensen, all of | Seattle. = Honorary pallbearers: Volney Richmond, Jr., Charles Black, D. W. Kluckhohn, Ralph Lomen, Glenn Carrington, S. E. Stretton, Lawrence Calvert, Alvin Schwager, Archie| Shields, Josua Green, Guy Graham, | Harold Parks, Col. Fred P. Andrews, ; Admiral F. A. Zeusler, Dwight L.} Spracker, R. W. Slater, Ernest A. Anderson, Dewey W. Metzdorf, A.| U. Dickey, D. E. Hewitt, Murlin Spencer, H. W. Haugland and G. W. Skinner. | NATIONAL GUARDSMEN AT "BATTLEGROUND" | With the stirring film, “Battle- ground,” as inspiration, officials of the Alaska National Guard made sure that the audience last night Ytional planes were standing by to ciate the picture with their recruit- ing campaign, Well in view between the open- ing night shows were these uni- formed members of the new 208th Infantry Battalion, ANG: Sgt. 1st cl. Clayton Rew, Sgt. Presco An- cheta, Pfc. Wesley Miller and Re- cruits Graham Rountree, Edgar Lokken and Dallas Casperson. “Battleground” 1is the real-1ife story of the 101st Airborn Division in the Battle of the Bulge. .STEAMER MOVEMENTS Prince George from Vancouver arrived in port at 3 o'clock this af- ternoon. Aleutian from Seattle due Tues- day at 8 a.m. Princess Norah from Vancouver due Tuesday afternoon. Chilcotin scheduled to sail from Vancouver tonight. Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle Wednesday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver next Wednesday. Baranof scheduled to sail from Princess Kathleen scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. ASSAULT, BATTERY CHARGE Harry Vidak, local bartender, pleaded guilty Friday afternoon be- fore Commissioner Gordon Gray to a charge of assault and battery. He was sentenced this afternoon to pay a fine of $50. BELLINGHAM COUPLE APPLY FOR MARRIAGE . LICENSE | | i | | | | | i Jack M. Christenson and Glenda Mae Sanregret, both of Bellingham, Wash., applied for a marriage li- cense today in the United States Commissioner’s Court. CIVILIAN COUNCIL DEFENSE TO MEET TONIGHT AT 7:45 The Council of Civilian Defense will meet tonight in the council \chamber of City Hall at 7:45 o'- | clock, according to R. E. Robertson, local director. FROM HAWAIIL Mr. and Mrs. John T. Moir, Jr., of Lahaina on Maui Island, Hawail, are guests at the Baranof Hotel. “|ing until that time had elaps | yesterday, | 31— | ser- ANCHORAGE, Al.\.\kJ July (M—Planes of the Air Rescue vice hoped for clearing weather today to launch an all-out search for a missing U. 8. Air Force C-54 and its six crew members. | The four-engine crait disappeared | Saturday over Cape Spencer, abou' | 90 air miles due west of Juneau | Based here with the 54th Squad- | Carrfer ©quadron, the plane enroute back to its base from the Pacific Northwest. Search planes scoured the Spencer area during the last days without success. Low-ha clouds held the Sunday search a lone B-17. The plane vanished without giv- ing any indicaticn of trouble Weather condi‘ions, however, werc reported bad in the area. Names of the six crewmen werc withheld. The big plane frem at 1:53 p.m. Saturday, At that time it was northbound at an al‘itude of 9,000 feet and gave no indication of trouble. It had about 14 hours fuel sup- ply left. It was not listed as mi wa; Cap tw ging to was last hea (4:53 p.m. The Alaskan Air Command said six search planes scoured the Cape Spencer region Saturday. Making the hunt were two planes ifrom the 54th Squadron, three from the 10th Air Rescue Squadror. working out of Elmendorf, and ont from the Navy base at XKodiak. Bad weather curtalled the search to one B-17 irom the 10th Rescue Squadron, but addi- ‘ake off as soon as conditions per- Th? Air Force said names of the c.ew members brobably would not M‘ released fo. 45 to 72 hours. TEE-SHIRT FLAG SAVES ANGLERS FROM NIGHT ON WIND-WHIPPED SEA A white tee-shirt flying from a fishing pole saved four Juneau fish- ermen from a night on the wind- whipped waters of Lynn Canal yes- terday. Gus George, Juneau merchant, and three other sports fishermen whose names were not revealed, | were rescued by men from the Sen- | tinel Island light station after three | and one-half hours adrift in their 16-foot inboard motor boat. George said today that they were fishing in the middle of the channel off Shelter Island when the boat ran out of gas with “the wind whip- ping and the sea rising.” They broke up one of the seats in the boat to make paddles and tried to bring their boat into the shelter of North Island, he said. “But the tide was so strong we couldn’t do much,” he declared. “The only way the boat would take | the sea and tide rips was with its side to them.” An attempt was made to attract the attention of an Alaska Coastal | Airlines plane by means of a smudge but no dry matches with which to light the smudge could be found, he said. “It looked as though we were going to have to sit it out all night,” George recalled. But the tee-shirt on a fishing pole did the trick. The motor launch from the Senti- nel Island took the boat in tow to the light station. There fuel was | supplied and the motor tested tho: '-' oughly, while the fishermen drank hot coffee. The craft returned to Tee Harbor | under its own power, with the four | anglers aboard. | IN PRIVATE AIRCRAFT Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Vilentine of | Pasadena arrived from Ketchikan | yesterday in their Grumman Goose | aircraft, hoping to find good fish-| ing here. They are guests at the | Baranof Hotel. SITKANS VISIT Among Sitkans stopping at the Baranof Hotel are D. R. Doyle, Frank T. Calvin and T. J. Cole. FROM NEW YORK CITY Mr. and Mrs. Ernest smomhld\ |in | lightened on | munist of New York City are at the Bara- nof Hotel, Reaching Korea Air Force Plane Leaving Juneau for Anchorage |s Mlssmg Over Cape Spencer 1,5, TROOPS WALK ASHORE KOREAN PORT Are Armed with. Armor, Go Immediately fo Front ~MacArthur in Formosa (By the Associated Press) Fresh troops of the U.S. Second ntry Division landed with armor orea today and began moving at once toward the desperately sag- defense lines. The troops walked busy South Korean port directly from the transports that brought them from the United States. They were no more than in time, for North Koreans swung the main weight of their offensive from the central to the southern sector, where they punched two wedges in Ameri- can lines, ‘The Communists captured Chinju, near the south coast, splitting the Americans there anc ¢ them to retire along dfveige roads to new positions le then 50 miles from the main Aiiled port of Pusn. ashore at a “Beat Hell Out of Us” “They beat the hell out of us,” sald an American commander. Only 11 miles southwest of Kum- chon, main hub of the present de- fen Chirye changed hands twice ind became a no-man'’s land. First Cavalry troopers defending the central sector adopted a scorched earch policy and put the torch to hundreds of thatched huts to smoke out guerrillas and enemy regulars using -infiltration . tactics,. 4 Officers Killed The Americans acted after an enemy band had slipped up to an American command post, poked guns through the windows and killed four Americans officers and one South Korean and wounded eight Americans, Five of the 15 or 20 raid- ers were killed. About 20 miles south of Chirye the Americans also were forced back further to the east of Kochang, and in the Kumchon area as well, despite orders to hold their positions or die fighting. Reds Pushing Hard All along the 70-mile line from Chinju to Kumchon the Reds were pushing hard ~with tank-tipped columns, but American officers said Ku m(hon would be held “at all (:en Douglas MacArthur's com- munique, issued early Tuesday in Tokyo, said the present lines ran from Chinju northwest to the west- ern outskirts of Hamyang, northeast to a point seven miles east of Ko- chang, four miles west of Kumchon, four miles west and north of Ham- chang, one mile north of Yechon and to the east coast just south of Yongdok. On Northern Front Pressure was reported to have the northern front, though the enemy infiltrated into Hamchang behind the front lines. Both' the Second Infantry Divi- sion and the First Marine Division have been enroute from the US. | West Coast. The First Marines left more than two weeks ago, and the sond Infantry a few days later. Either would fight as a unit merged in the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea. Even if both divisions joined the three from Japan already engaged in Korea, along with other unidenti- fied units from Okinawa, the de- fenders still woyld be considerably outnumbered by the invaders. Gen. MacArthur’s intelligence of- ficers estimated the North Koreans have mustered an army of 200,000 men by “frantic mobilization.” U.S.- South Korean forces would be only about half that. MacArthur if Formosa Gen. MacArthur arrived on For- mosa for a visit with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Nation- alist Chinese aides. The trip could mean that the long-expected Com- invasion of Formosa was about to be attempted. Chiang was expected to renew his offer to send troops to Korea, but this offer was not believed likely to be accepted in view of Formosa’s danger. Acting in “self-defense,” Nationalist warplanes acked 500 small Communist-in- ion boats near Amoy Sunday and claimed to have sunk or damaged 150. It was their first such action since President Truman asked them (Continueg on Page Two)