The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1951, Page 1

¥ YALL TLE NEWS ALL THE TIME™ « - EMPIRE VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,787 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN.CENTS '_'—"—fi MacArthur Is Given Dramatic Home Coming Hawaiian Welcome for MacArthurs General and Mrs. Douglas Radford, Navy commander-i a non-stop flight from Tokyo. MacArthur, the later smiling, are welcomed to Hawaii by Admiral Arthur -chief in the Pacific (econd from right), on their arival in Honolulu after Directly behind Mrs. MacArthur is Arthur MacArthur, 13-year-old-son. Officer at extreme right unidentified. (# Wirephoto via radio from Henolulu. MORE TALKS SCHEDULED, MacARTHUR WASHINGTON, April 18 —(@— Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s visit to- morrow to the National Capital— to be topped by an address tc Con- | gress — was broadened today to in- clude brief appearances before the DAR and the American Society of | Newspaper Editors. | Rep. Martin (Mass), House Re- | publican leader, said he was told | the general would make a short talk | at 3 pm. EST to the Daughters of the American Revolution, now hold- ing their annual congress here. He said MacArthur also would Took in on the meeting of newspaper editors, but planned no speech to them. ‘There wes consicerable jockeying | about, with on-again-off-again | changes of plans, over welcoming ceremonies wher: the general 1 his party arrive ai 1:30 am. ES] The Army, whicl. once announced | it would have a cerzmonial guard, | 2 saluting bottery and band on| hand for Macarthur's arrival, an-' nounced fir hour was inappropriate for so much ceremony. But it said all these honors would be accorded the general tomorrow afternoon when a civic reception |, and demonstration is planned for Coctinued on Page Two) The Washingiohf Merry -Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Covbyright, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc., ASHINGTON. — Capitol Hill cloakrooms have been buzzing as never before over the MacArthur incident. This is true of Repub- licans perhaps more than Demo- crats. The Democrats are glum, the, Republicans elated — though not all of‘ them. Here are highlights from of the most significant of backstage conversations: Bob Taft expressed concern to Senator Wherry of Nebraska that the GOP may get stuck with Mac- Arthur its Presidential candi- date. Of course, this would elim- inate him, though Taft didn’t men- tion this to Wherry. Taft has been noticeably irritable, has snapped at Senate iunctionaries and fellow senators. He got in a private wran- gle with Bob Kerr of Oklahoma over Ker statement criticizing MacArthur. GOP Senator Millikin of Color- ado also expressed worry thai Ei- senhower would oppose MacArthur, some these Competifion b it had decided the | Fixed Rales, CAB Defense ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 18 — (A—Competition, not conspiracy, led to uniform taxicab rates in Anchor- | age, Attorney William Renfrew told a Federal Court jury yesterday in closing defense arguments in the anti-trust trial of Anchorage cab operators. Nine individual taxicab owners, two cab companies and two cab as- sociations, defendants in the action, are accused by the Government of illegally fixing prices to eliminate competition. Renfrew denied this in final argu- ments to the jury. He said uniform prices did not necessarily indicate | there was any breach of the law. Dollar Going Rate The dollar rate was the going rate set by supply and demand in the same way the going rate for news- papers, theaters and haircuts was established, the atterney declared. Although there was nothing city council minutes or records to indicate taxi operators submitted rates to the council, Renfrew said, operators did submit rates and the council approved them. He said un- der Territorial law the city had the right to set taxi rates, “In at least three different ordin- s they changed the way of do- " Renfrew asserted. Council approval of the rates has been the basis of the defense throughout the prolonged trial. Just Competition T wes “plain, good old fashioned competitien” that led city cab oper- ators to attempt to get a contract to run cabs at nearby military bases, Renfrew told the jury, adding that since Carl Sturdavant’s Inter-Post Cab company had decided to give city operators competition in town they figured on doing the same thing at the b: The attorney added evidence showed Sturdavant’s inability to operate at a 50 cent minimum rate, and that he had gone broke as a result. Sturdavant Out “On April 11, 1949, Sturdavant left a note saying he was pulling out and anyone who could pay the company’s debts could have it . . . that was long before a contract was signed May 20,” Renfrew said He referred to a contract signed by city cabmen to operate at Fori Richardson ‘and Elmendorf Air Force Base. Charles Whittinghill, Department of Justice attorney, in his closing arguments dismissed as meaningless the defense contention that the city council had been responsible for setting rates. “If there was any council ap- " (Continued on Page Four) \ «Continued on F:_rzc Six FAINT SIGNALS | ARE HEARDFROM | BRIT. SUBMARINE Craft with 7_5_0_flicers, Men Aboard, Down in Isle . of Wight Water | 1 PORTSMOUTH, Eng., April 18— (A—Faint underwater signals spur- red a blind search today for the British submarine Affray, stuck on the bottom of the English channel.! Time was swiftly running out forl any of the 75 officers and men aboard who might still be alive. The submarine, trapped in the initial dive of a training cruise, had i . been under 198 feet of water for 40 hours when the Royal Navy an- nounced at mid-afternoon that it had been unable to make any physi- cal gontact with the craft. Its nor- ‘mal oxygen supply would last the men on board 40 hours. Atmosphere of Mystery A Naval expert said reserve sup- plies might let the 75 aboard live another eight hours, but “that means by 21 hours (noon PST) the situation inside the vessel would be extremely dangerous.” The last faint signals from the submarine were heard at 8:30 a.m. Then came hours of ominous si-| lence. There was an atmosphere of | mystery about it. ‘Why, the rescue crews asked, could not the trapped men begin coming to the surface through es- cape hatches, using emergency breathy gear? Why had the sub- marine failed to release its emerg- ency marker buoy to guide rescue craft? Why, if there had been dis- aster, had the rescue fleet failed to find any debris or even an oil slick? Signals Are Weak The Admiralty said the signals, from a supersonic telegraph set, were so weak that rescue ships were unable to fix the exact position of the luckless undersea craft. ‘The only previous signal frem the sub had led the rescue fleet of 25 ships to the area 30 miles south- west of the Isle of Wight. The rescue fleet which had scour- ed a 2,000 square mile area since yesterday morning located the Af- fray in almost exactly the area where the sub had submerged on Monday night, at the start of what was to be an underwater training cruise. STEAMER MOVEMENTS I 1 Freighter Coostal Rambler sched- uled to arrive from Seattle some- time tomorrow. i Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday. Denali scheduled to arrive from westward Sunday enroute south. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive from Skagway at 7 a.m. Friday, sailing south half hour later at 7:30. | stalemate. ALLIED FORCES odby [MacARTHUR REPORT MAKING GAINS IN KOREA British Milifary Officer! Says MacArthur Right, | Bomb Red China By Associated Press While the United States celebrated MacArthur’s homecoming, ARied troops made further gains in Korea. Advancing behind heavy air and artillery attacks, UN forces pushed back the Communists from one to_ two miles south and southeast Ofi| Chorwon on the West front. Bomb China In Tokyo an informant said the top British military officer in Japan has voiced support for MacArthur's proposal to bomb Red’Chinese bm&! in Manchuria, The informant said) Lt. Gen. Sir H. C. H. Robertson; administrative commander of Brit=1 ish Commonwealth forces in Korea, recently told a confidential news} conference of British newsmen that. MacArthur's plan offered the best hope of forcing the Red Chinese out of the war and preventing a costly Allies Grind On Allied forces continued to grind slowly into North Korea. The Com= munists grudgingly retreated on the Western front under heavy Allied air and ground attacks. UN commanders said the Allied offensive presumably has thrown the Chinese and Koreans complete- | ly off balance. Chinese war prison- ers said the Reds’ spring offensive had been set for April 11. The Com- munists continued to commit their force piecemeal, ; E Peace Overture 2 Reports of a new peace overture from Communist China circulated in the United Nations. Delegates were studying the official text of a North Korean cable which called | for peace in accordance with resolu- } i | ! General and Mrs. Douglas MacArthur wave farewell at Haneda Air- port before entering their plane for the flight to the United States. Standing at the foot of the ramp is Lt. Col. Tony Story, the general’s personal pilot. ® Wirephoto via radio from Tokyo. . WILL TALK, CONGRESS | General Flying East To- night After Great Wel- come af San Francisco By Associated Press Gen. Douglas MacArthur leaves for Washington today after receiv- ing a boisterous and spontaneous welcome home in San Francisco, where he first set foot on conti- nental U. S. A. after 14 years that made him a national hero. MacArthur’s big plane Bataan wil carry him to Washington some time¢ after midnight tonight. He will ad dress both Houses of Congress Thurs- day when he is expected to defend the Asian policies that led to hi dismissal as supreme commander President Truman who fired him said MacArthur's policies would lead this country into a third Worlc War, Dispute Divides Nation The dispute betwfen the Presi- dent and MacArthur has sharply divided the country. Republican: and Democrats are hurling at eacl other the bitter taunt of “war par- ty.” MacArthur is saving his am- munition for his Congressiona speech. Pressed for comment las. night, he replied: “I'm not saying anything until I get to Washington, What B have to'say is for their ears.” Airport Greeting The Pacific war hero was greetec t the ajrport by Oalifornia's Gov Earl Warren, San Francisco’s nlayor Elmer Robinson and high-ranking officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. A 17-gun salute boomed out a military welcome. Great crowds surged around hi: % tions drawn up by the Communist- led World Peace Council at Berlin | in February. Some delegate said ni was a genuine peace bid. Others | said it was more stale propaganda. | BIGBLAZE, PETERSBURG | BAN FRANCISCO, April 18 —P— General Douglas MacArthur told PETERSBURG, Alaska, April 18— | the pation and the world today he (M—A fire in this Southeast Alaska | goes not intend to enter politics. town’s business district caused ex- I “The only politics T have,” he told tensive damage to a bar and a cafe |a roaring, cheering crowd “is con- and drove residents from an apart- ! tained in a simple phrase known ment building early today. | well by all of you—God Bless Amer- The 5:30 a.m. fire gutted the in- | joa7» terior of Ted Reynold’s Harbor Bar$ He declared, just as he prepared and Winnie Gray’s Cafe. There!t, fly to Washington for a joint was smoke damage to Helen’s Gift | meeting of Congress, “I have no po- and Jewelry Shop. The City office | jitical aspirations whatsoever. in the same building escaped dam- | «f do not intend to run for any age but all records and furnishings | political office and I hope that my were moved out. Residents of the|pame will never be used in a po- Coliseum Apartments meved out ! jitical way.” during the fire. | San Francisco gave MacArthur, The cafe damage wa3 estimated at | his wife and young son probably the $7,000, with no insurance. | greatest ovation ever extended any- /| one. The general, who arrived by plane last night after having been stripped § of all his Far East commands by is Zi President Truman, spoke dramat- Louis Ziman, commissioner for | ; the. Federal Mediation and Coneil- | 10813, 8t the simple ceremony in iation Board, from Spokane flew | his honor. to Seattle today, after meeting with Home Sweet Home cold storage ynion workers and | “I cannot tell you what it means employers here since last Thursday. | to be home,” he said. A tentative agreement had been | He spoke of California’s 40th Di- reached, he said, and the situation | yision, recently arrived in Japan, looked “hopeful.” He declined to|and declared: give any further details at this| «y¢js my fervent hope that events time. |. . . permit their return without BN AET T ) | commitment to the actual hazards of war.” | After his brief talk, and a few { words by Mrs. MacArthur, the gen- | eral and his party entered their automobiles for the 15-mile drive |to San Francisco’s International { Airport. | His car, heavily escorted by police, | started the run to the sirport at 12:15 p.m. PST. ° The general’s pilot, Lt, Col. An- thony Story, said the non-stop flight { to Washington would take 8 hours ® | 10 minutes. The plane was warmed ® | up and on the ready line before the { general’s caravan left San Francisco : i City Hall. Crowds Halt Parade . Crowds jsmmed the downtown ® | streets so solidly that the parade in whieh the famous general rode with his family was forced to a virtual crawl, “TENTATIVE AGREEMENT” REACHEL, SAYS MEDIATOR e o o v . 9 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 53; minimum, 34. At Airport — Maximum, 53; minimum, 31. FORECAST Continued fair tonight and Thursday. Lowest tempera- ture tonight near 35 degrees. Highest Thursday near 50. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — None; Since April 1 — 7.27 inches; Since July 1 — 65.20 inches. At Airport — None; Since April 1 — 2.54 inches. Since July 1 — 38.39 inches. Gen. MacArthur Has No Polifical Aspirations, He Stafes in Brief Talk ® 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 o | plane and upset the official wel- coming. He drove to his hotel, a drive that normally would take 30 minutes but required 100 min- utes. “MacArthur for President” signs bobbed over the heads of the crowds at the airport. MacArthw spoke be- lroré a battery of microphones with ! deep emotion: Good To Be Home “I can’t tell you how good it is to be home . , . During these long, long, dreary years Mrs. MacArthur Today’s outpouring was the grtat-land I have talked and thought est thing the city had ever seen. {gapout it. . . . This is marvelous The general saluted happily as|pospitality and a reception that we crowds pressed upon him, dozens! win not forget ... " deep along the streets, marchingl A spokesman told newsmen there and shouting and keeping abreast | 15 jttle likelihood of a meeting be- his car as the caravan moved from |tween President Truman and Mac- the downtown area toward thefarthur in Washington tomorrow Civic Center where another tre-|ynless a direct invitation comes mend crowd was waiting for the re-| from the White House. The Prési- ception ceremonies. dent gave up an important public appearance and his usual press con- ference so as not to interfere with “MacArthur Day” in Washington. |McLEAN. T0 TELL OF {" JUNE GOOD WILL TOUR ON ALASKA HIGHWAY Joe McLean will give a report on the coming good will tour set for June at a regular luncheon meet- ing of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce. at the Baranof Hotel tomorrow. Members of the Chamber are to make a trip to Watson Lake and Tok Junction on the Alaska High- way to put Juneau signs and dis- tribute literature, inviting tourists to visit Juneau via the Haines cut- off and Chilkoot ferry. STOCK QUCATIONS NEW YORK, Aphil 18 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock . today is 27, American Can 110%, American Tel. and Tel. 154, Anaconda 42%, Douglas Aircraft 104, General Electric 56's, General Motors 83%, Goodyear 78, Kenne- cott 75%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 10%, Northern Pacific 39'%, Stand- ard Oil of California 46%, Twen- tieth Century Fox 20%, U. S. Steel 44%, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Ex- change 94.25. Sales today were 1,780,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 25601, rails 83.92, utili- tles 42.35. Henry E. Green, Alaska Steam- ship Co. agent, returned to Juneau on the Denali after a short business trip to Seattle ANOTHER ROUSING TIME SAN FRANCISCO, April 18 —(®— San Franciscans turned out by the hundreds of thousands today to wel- come Geneyal MacArthur back to the United States with thunderous cheers. Enthusiastic_ well-wishers blocked the streets so solidly that his tri- umphal parade thyough the city's streets took twice 45 long as sched- uled, An estimated 200,000 people mass=- ed in Civic Center to hear him for- mally welcomed back from 14 years in the Western Pacific. The crowd went wild when M~2- Arthur arrived. Its greatesi cneers came when he smilingly assisted his wife out of the jam-packed street up into the reviewing stand. They quieted when Attorney John Francis Neylan began the cere- monies. But they broke out again as soon as he said: Thunderous Ovatior “Douglas MacArthur, soldier and statsman is home.” Another thunderous ovation broke out as the attorney concluded an impassioned speech with, “God Bless Douglas MacArthur.” The cheers were booming echoes of shouts that had reverbrated thru San Francisco streets for the two- hour-long ride from the St. Francis hotel to Civic Center a* 9:45 a.m. The ceremony got under way at 11:45 am. — an even hour behind| schedule, THROUGH TO SEWARD R. A. Swartz with the U. S. For- est Service at Seward stayed over- night at tae Hotel Juneau and planned io lave today for Seward. -» THRON GREETS _GENERAL Wild Emoiio-n—al Jag Takes Place at San Francisco, Night and Day SAN FRANCISCO, April 18 —f— General Douglas MacArthur's dra- matic home coming was growing today into the wildest emotional jag this city has seen since the tumult of V-J Day. ) Tens of thousands of Bay Are: citizens poured out of their homes to give the ousted general a second= day welcome expected to overs shadow the riotous greeting he re- ceived last night on his first return to the mainland in 14 years. MacArthur captured San Francis- co as surely as his troops conquered Manila and Leyte and Iwo Jima in World War IIL iy And his parade through cheering thousands this morning (starting at 9:45 a.m., PST) will be the climax to the shysterical home coming party. - Admiration Shown The hundreds of thousands who greeted MacArthur last night left no doubt of their deep admiration of the hero-soldier regardless of. how’ they felt about his Asia policies. People began gathering at the City Airporé three hours before MacArthur's big shiny Constella- tion.transport was due from Hawail. As dusk settled over the field there were - about’ 10,000 spectatort jammed into a wire-fence enclosure. Other thousands were unable to get in. The ship touched the runway at 8:29 p.m. « Cheers Go To Roar The plane rolled to a halt. A wo- man gave a high, hysterical scream that signalled the temper of the crowd. The cheers swelled into a roar. Mrs. Jean MacArthur stepped from the plane onto the ramp, Thén came the general wearing his familiar gold-braided cap and a trenchcoat buttoned high around his neck. Be- hind him was their 13-year-old son, Arthur — wide-eyed and grinning. The official greeting party includ- ed Gov. Earl Warren, Mayor Elmer Robinson and high-ranking officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. They moved forward to shake hands with the MacArthifs. Plans Knocked Out MacArthur had requested a brief ceremony shorn of any pomp except the customary muitary ceremomies given a five-star general. Buf’'a wave of excitement swept the crowd: and swamped the well-laid plnnai MacArthur walked swiftly before the guard on an inspection that was almost a mob scene. Trapped in Throng Mrs. MacArthur and young Ar- thur were trapped in the swirling throng. They stood helplessly, un- able to move. Friends gathered around them to form a tight circle of protection. Mrs. MacArthur clung to a ‘hiige bouquet of American Beauty ¥ which had been handed to her™dy. a tiny South Korean girl. The youngster —7-year-olfi daughter of a South Korean government official —had shyly tendered the roses while clasping a little South Korean flag. Wide-Eyed Wonder Young Arthur watched the tu- mult in wide-eyed wonder. Lt. Col. Anthony Story, MacArthur's per- sonal pilot, threw his arms around Arthur protectively to shield him from the jostling throng. “How does it feel to be home?" someone asked the boy who was seeing the mainland for the first time. = “It feels fine,” he smiled. | Mrs. MacArthur was smiling, Her eyes were wet with tears. i “It’s simply wonderful,” she sald. “It's simply wonderful. We have looked forward to this.” DEHART GETS TROPHY A SIZE MOUNTAIN GOAT James DeHart, proprietor of De- Hart’'s store at Auk Bay has on display in his window a 300-pound mountain goat head which he ob- tained while hunting last fall. It is of trophy size. | The head was mounted by Stans tlcy Jekill, an Auk Bay neighbor,