The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 5, 1951, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL-TLIE NEWS ALL THE TIME™ VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,776 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1951 UN Forces Strike Massing Reds Beyond Over the 38t Parallel VETS TO BE CALLED BACK FROM KOREA| Army Announces Rotalion" Plan to Start During Middle of Month WASHINGTON, April 5 The Army-will begin about the mid- dle of this month to bring back from Korea men who have been long engaged in the fighting there. They will be replaced by fresh troops. Secretary of the Army Pace an-; nounced the “rotation” plans today. He said Gen. Douglas MacArthur will decide policy on selection of men to be sent home. The first bat- tle veterans should sail from Korea within a few weeks, Pace said. In a statement, Pace emphasized that the rate of rotation will de- pend upon both the flow of replace- | ments to the war theatre and upon the necessity to maintain the com- bat effectiveness of all units now in Korea. 20,000 Each Month The exact number of men to be rotated in the early stages of the program has not been determined, Hand-waving, broad-smiling Rita | j> Aly Khan. # Wirephoto. RitaRefurns as she arrives in New York on the liner De Grasse. | the first thing she intended to do was to have a hot dog, the film H star denied reports of a rift between her and her husband Prince | ALLIES IN IN KOREA ‘Make Aitac_k;—on Enemy Now Preparing for Spring Offensive By Associated Press United Nations troops pushed | eight miles into North Korea todey | along a 40-mile stretch of the West- | ern and Central fronts. It was the deepest penetration of the current Allied drive. | The Allied attack is an attempt to catch the Chinese with their | spring offensive showing. | The Allies are driving for the | rugged terrain in Central Korea | where the Communists are reperted massing nearly 500,000 combat troops for a big push expected to istarl, at any moment. | Allied intelligence reports said | the Chinese intended to throw in | huge quantities of manpower dur=j ing the approaching rainy season, i knowing that Korea's mud will bog down the U. S. Eighth Army's ma- chine-based warfare. Ridgway With Troops /Hayworth says “hello” to America Saying that Pace added. | He said the exchange of fresh; men for battle veterans will event- ually run to about 20,000 each month. The Army said this rate! may be reached by early summer. The rotation plan calls for the return direct to the United States of as many troops as possible, par- ticularly in the early phases of the program. FOUR ARMY DIVISIONS T0 EUROPE That Is Planned Now by Senafe - Truman Gives Approval, Resolution WASHINGTON, April 5 —(@®— President Truman today described the Senate's troops-for-Europe res- olution as “further evidence that the country stands firm in its sup- gram comes with virtual completion | port of the North Atlantic treaty.” Re-Assignments I Later, some men from Korea may be re-assigned to garrison duty in Japan or other parts of the Far East command, such as Okinawa. Even these garrison troops will eventually be brought back to the United States when the outward movement of troops is flowing smoothly. The Army said returning veterans will disembark either at Seattle, or San Francisco. The start of the rotation pro- In effect, the Senate declaration that he should get Congressional approval amounted to a challenge of that position. But the President was in no mood David B, Duncan of Anchorage ap his bcing Wiy SepOToRE iva 15 at the Baranof Hotel, iees the-lesue. In response to questiops, he said % he always has consulted with both The Washington Merry - Go - Round Houses on all major fpreign policy By DREW PEARSON steps, (Copyright, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Ine., of the Army’s drive to build all{ Mr. Truman hailed the resolution ground force units in Korea to their | —endorsing his plan to send four full combat strength, additional Army divisions to the Western European defense force— !in a statement. SIO(K ouo'ATlo"S He read it at a news conference land then brushed off questions NEW YORK, April 5 — c]usiny!‘hm“ a provision %fl% leaders in the quotations of Alaska Juneau mine| ChAt¢ fought against bitterly. This stock today is 3%, American Can |V the declaration that Mr. Tru 111%, Ameriean Tel. and Tel. 155%, ( man ulmul.dbxf(n. deploy more than Anaconda 40%, Douglas Aircraft | 10¢ f0UT divisions to Europe “with- 97%, General Electric 55, General out further Congressional author- Motors 52%, Goodyear 72%, Kenne- | ¢ cott 74%, Libby, McNeill and Libby TivRRan 9%, Northern Pacific 34%, Standard [ The President has taken the Oil of California 45%, Twentieth stand he has full constitutional Century Fox 20%, U. S. Steel 43', | POWer to send American troops Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange wherever he believes their presence 95.06%, Sales today were 1,790,000 shares. Averages today were as follow Industrials 25032, rails 8285, utili- ties 42.43. Four Divisions ‘The only thing under considera- tion by the Senate was. the ques- tion of providing the four divisions, Mr. Truman added. ASHINGTON.—Four brief years The four divisions — about 100,- 8go an American plane flying along| 000 men in all — are expected to the Yugoslav-Austrian border was | start moving to Europe soon. They shot down by trigger-happy Yugo-| Will join there the two already as- slav troops. Tempers flared, diplo-y signed from occupation forces to mats protested, ill feeling between | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s North the United States and the most|Atlantic Defense Force. powerful nation in the Balkans reached a dangerous climax. BEnste Vot Today, in contrast, the small] The Senate approved the contro- farming town of Chester, New Jer- | Versial resolution by an overwhelm- sey, is adopting the Yugoslav town |ing 69 to 21 vote. Voting for it were of Kumrovec, which happens to be|42 Democrats and 27 Republicans; the birthplace of Marshal Tito. There is nothing official about this adoption ceremony. It was worked out not by the governments of either country, but through an exchange of messages between its A citizens, in which 300 Chester| Frincess Norah from Vancouver school kids participated, d\;xe w_arrive Saturday afternoon Most interesting thing about | °F evening. Kumrovec is that, though the| DBaranof scheduled to sail from birthplace of Tito, it's getting quite | Seattle 4 p.m. Friday. Denali from westward scheduled (Continued on Page Four) southbound som=time Sunday. (Continued on Page Eight) STEAMER MOVEMENTS But the UN ground commander, Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, de- cided not to wait for the Reds to strike. On the theory that the best defense is an offensive, he decided to strike first. Ridgway, a live gre- nade dangling from his familiar paratrooper harness, went along with his border-crossing troops, A U. 8. Eighth Army communique said the Allied task force met only light. resistance in its probing at- tack in<the vieinity of Chail, near=~ ly eight miles north of the 38th Parallel on the Uujongbu-Kumhwa road. The force dispersed an esti- World War Danger Is S[II Great Truman Hopes It Won't! il mated company-size unit of defend- Happen_ DeAnot!"l'(es ers near Chail. “Things are progressing very agazme r I( es smoothly,’ Ridgway commented. 1 iy WASHINGTON, April 5 —(®— President Truman said today the danger of a third World War is just as great as it ever was. The President told a news confer- | ence, however, he hopes there never will be a World War III and he is doing all he can to prevent it. The President would not comment on a speech yesterday by Speaker Rayburn that large numbers of troops are massing in Manchuria and that they are not ail Chinese Communists. He did say the speaker is a truthful man. | The Allied path through the hilly | terrain was blazed by artillery. War- planes rocketed and fire bombed | the defending Chinese. ! Enemy In Dug.Outs AP Correspondent John Randolph said the enemy was strongly en- trenched in some areas. He said they ! had well-prepared dug-outs, some { with concrete walls two feet thick. On the East coast, where opposi- Jtlv.'m was light, two South Korean divisions were 13 miles deep in en- emy country. Speaker Sam Rayburn of the U.\ S. House of Representatives yester- day warned of massing of troops in { Manchuria with the ominous re- “Terrible Danger” NEW DRIVE |T RECOGNIZED will best serve the nation’s interest. . he had no further comment. Then, pressed as to whether he thought there is still danger today of ‘a third World War, Mr. Tru- man declared there was still as much danger today as there has ever been, He recalled there was danger at the time America had to institute | the Berlin aij lift, danger at the | time the Greek-Turkish aid pro- gram was started, and danger since the time the Communists invaded South Korea. Situation In Korea We are still faced with that sit- uation in Korea, Mr. Truman went 1 (Eontifiiéi on Page Two) WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 39; minimum, 34. At Airport — Maximum, 37; minimum, 34. FORECAST Cloudy with light rain and southeasterly winds as high as 30 miles per hour tonight and Friday. Low- est temperature tonight about 38 degrees. Highest Friday near 40. 5 PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending §:30 a.m. todsy City of Juneau — .46 inches; Since April 1 — 261 inches; Since July 1 — 60.56 inches. At Airport — .17 inches; Since April 1 — 96 inches; Since July 1 — 37.22 inches. e o 0 0 00 0 0 0 to the remark by Rayburn (e ' “terrible. danger” of an. |MArk: “And not all of them Chinese | équipment. destroyec At ok A 4 d War, Mr. Truman said i Communists.” He did not specify Raflro other Warld Wog S whether he meant Russian troops|16, 8nd $3,500,000 for & Bureau of were also massing in the area. In Tokyo, informed quarters at General MacArthur’s headquarters _————y MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 38th A tank and infantrymen, part of a patrol, pause after crossing the 38th parallel on the Western Korean front. Gen. Douglas MacArthur made his 15th trip to the Korean front, jeeping 13 miles north of the parallel to visit South Korean troops 50 miles east of the central front. (M Wirephoto via radio from Tokyo. MAN, WIFE ARE T0 DIE | FOR SPYING }Firsl American Citizens fo Ever Be Sentenced for Such an Offense : NEW YORK, April 5 —(®— Con- victed atom spies Jullus and Ethel | Rosenberg were sentenced to death in the electric chair today for spy- ing for Russia. The husband and wife, parents of two children, are the first Ameri- can citizens ever to be sentenced to death for spying against their | country either in war or peace time by a civilian court. “I consider your crime worse than murder,” sald Federal Judge Irving ! R. Kaufman. “I blieve your con- | ALASKA FIRE HAZARDS ARE Fire-proofing Assured for Anchorage Shops and | ‘Bethel Hospifal WASHINGTON, April 5 —®—! Interior Department officials have assured the House, Appropriations Committee that new construction in Alaska is being made fire resistant.; Testimony made public today in- dicated the point was a touchy one with committee members during a hearing on requests for.$8,000,000 to replace “properties lost in separate Alaska fires this winter. The requests include $4,500,000 by the Interior Departmeni’s Office of Territories to replace buildings and Indian Affairs’ hospital at Bethel The latter was destroyed Nov. 20, said the Russians are believed to Precautions Taken maintain some garrisons in Chinese Committee members questioned Territory but they discounted re- | Witnesses repeatedly concerning the ports that the Soviet Far Eastern |Precautions being taken to cut down Army has shown any tendency to]the fire danger. build up its forces within Man- D. H. Nucker, executive officer churia. MEMORIAL SERVICE fied that in addition to fireproof construction for most buildings, the new, shops would include separated buildings and firebreaks. He said it was planned to build six separate buildings, each handl- ing a single phase of the raflfoad's FOR JOE FORS HERE Q' so (l“K IONIGH' work, rather than simply replace the two structures destroyed by Memorial services for Joe Fors| fire will be held this evening at 8 o’clock ] gych . operation, he said, , would in the Carter Chapel with the Rev. give greater efficiency of opera- GG. H. Hillerman of the Lutheran| tion as well as lessen’ fire danger, Church conducting the service and} He estimated that it would save music by Ernest Ehler, The remains will be taken to Se- attle for cremation. Fors is survived by his wife, a sister and: brother in Finland, a brother in New York a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Cziok and granddaughter, Jan Cziok of Milwaukee. CORONER’S INQUEST TOMORROW, AT 2 P.M. Coroner’s inquest in the death of Mrs. Margaret Knorre, which occurred ' in federal jail early Wed- nesday morning, will be held to- morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock in the court room of U. 8. Commis- sioner Gordon Gray. H ! AT HOTEL JUNEAU C. Cooper of Paterson, N. J. is registered at the Hotel Juneau. “not more than $100,000 or $200,000” to consolidate the buildings as be- fore. P Bethel Hospital Plans W. Barton Greenwood, exécutive officer for the Indian Affairs Bur- eau, said fireproofing of .the .Bethe! hospital was being made more dif- ficult because the permafrost condi- tion in the area eliminates all but frame construction. He said pilings must de sunk in the ice four or five feet and .per- mitted to “stabilize” for about a year before construction is begun. “We cannot build a‘masonry type of structure in the area,” he testi- fied. Asked whether a sprinkler sys- tem would be built into the new structure, he replied, “Yes.” “Our . estimates contemplate " a (Cuctinued on Page *Two) [ SELECTED Richard Valzonis, 14, of Chicago, m.,l-snletnnulh&pplnu-u he looks at trophy he won with title “Boy of the Year” Richard, a freshman in high school, was selected from more than 355,000 boys by the Boys’ Clubs of Am- erica for his citizenship activities in behalf of his club, community and school. Presentation of the award took place in New York City in national headquarters of the organization. P Wirephoto, of the Office of Territories, testi- / CllléKS IDENTIFY MISPLACED FUNDE Two checks with the name of Margaret Femmer on each identi- fied a sack of money found recently by Lee Rox in the rest room of the Bus Depot Cafe. The funds amount- ing to $64 burned mo holes in Lee's pockets, proving him to be an honest man. He placed several phone calls and located Margaret Femmer in one of the theatres. She appeared at the Empire of- fice a few moments later and properly proved ownership of the money. The day's receipts from the cafe had been accidently left in the rest room in the hurry to close. MRS. LINGO HOME Mrs. George Lingo, whose husband is in charge of the U. S, Land Office in Anchorage, flew home Wednes- day via Pacific Northern Airlines after several weeks' visit in Juneau. She was'a guest of her sister, Mrs. Helen Troy Monsen. GUERTIN RETURNS Floyd Guertin, Commissioner of Veterans Affairs for the Territory, returned from Anchorage yesterday where he had peen the past several days on business for his office. | | duct In putting into the hands of the !'Russians the A-bomb before our . best scientists predicted Russia { would perfect the bomb has already | caused the Communist aggression in ! Korea with the resultant casual- | ties exceeding 50,000 Americans and i Wwho knows but that millions more |of innocent people may pay the | price of your treason,” | Sets Week for Execution The judge said the trial “indi- | cates quite clearly” that an enemy - ——— ! nation is employing “secret as well as outspoken forces among our own (STALASKA & | He set the week of May 21 for 5 their execution. | Both- Rosenberg a 32-year-old electrical engineer, and his 35-year- 1" old wife, showed lttle emotion at the sentence. Rosenberg’s jaw mus Radar expert Morton Sobell, 34 8 third defendant, was sentenced to {30 years in prison. Kaufman said ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 5 — | his guilt was of, a “lesser degree.” (W— Trial of the first anti-trust. Former Army Sgt. David Green- case in Alaska’s history, in which}gm, 29, who pleaded guilty and the government charges taxicab gave testimony that helped: convict companies with conspiring to fiXx' Mrs, Rosenberg, his sister, will be rates, is underway in Federal court|sentenced tomorrow . here. i On trial before a jury of six men | Usual Appeal Notices and six women are two Anchorage, Attorneys for the Rosenbergs and taxicab associations, two taxicab Scbell said they would appeal th2 companies and nine individuals. convictions and sentences. The trial is the first resulting, In sentencing the Rosenbergs for from grand jury anti-trust law in- | offenses committed in 1944 and 1945 dictments last spring against 11 while the nation was at war, Judge Alaska firms or associations. Three | Kaufman appealed to Congress to other cases, involving two liquor | tighten peace time espionage laws. store chains and a large cleanmg! He saild that anybody convicted company, are to be tried in Federal lo( transmitting secrets now ‘“con- Court here. The other cases have, cerning the new type A-bomb or been scheduled for trial in Seattle, | the hydrogen bomb” could be sent- Fairbanks and Juneau, enced to no more than 20 years. Charges Rate Fixing | The penalty for wartime espionage John J. Mulvey, government at- } is death or a maximum of 30 years torney, told the jury in opening in prison. arguments Tuesday that the taxi- | cab operators entered into rate fix- | ing agreements starting in 1944. He also asserted they tried to keep : “It is time,” he said, “for Congress to examine the penal provisions of this Act.” 4 ‘The Rosenbergs were accused of but others who might charge less ;obtaining sketches of the so-called than the “fixed rates.” | “Nagasaki” atom bomb and turning Defense Attorney William Ren- them over to Russian agents. They frew replied that the city council | obtained sketches of the bomb from 1ad asked operators to form an as- ‘ Greenglass, who was employed on sociation and submit proposed ! the highly secret atomic project at ‘ates. | Los Alamos, N. M. “If any rates were established; The courtroom was deathly silent for the operation of cabs within|as he pronounced sentence. the city of Anchorage,” Renfrew | said, “they were set by one of three ’ parties — military authorities atjMoRMo" (HUR(H Elmendorf Field, the Office of| SALT LAKE CITY, April 5§ —®— Price Administration in Anchoraue: or the Anchorage City Council.” Requested by Council He added that ‘“rather than conspiracy to fix rates” the taxi- | cab organization was requested by the council “for the purpose of pro- | ® tecting the public.” Charles L. Whittinghill, chief of the anti-trust division in Seattle, is chief prosecutor in the case, Edifor, Publisher Strangled fo Death Operating Press MILLBRAE, Calif.,, April 5—(®— Peter Loftus, 48, editor and pub- | lisher of the weekly Millbrae Sun, | was killed last night when his| necktie caught in a press, He was| strangled. His wife, Anne, working alone. Loftus, a native of Ireland and a graduate of Columbia University, founded the Sun in 1935, said he was ' | George Albert Smith, the kindly, soft spoken eighth president of the | Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) church i died last night at his home. Death came on his 81st birthday | as members of the mighty Mormon | empire flocked into Salt Lake City 1!01- the church's 121st annual con- ference. | President Truman commented | that this nation has “lost a great | man. | Chureh president slightly less than | six years, Elder Smith had been ill for most of the winter following a virus infection attack. His health ebbed since he returned from hos- pital confinement in February. At the age of 75, Elder Smith became church president May 21, 1945. He took office a week after the death of his predecessor, Heber J. Grant, to become the spiritual ‘lnlder of a million Mormons,