The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1951, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXVIL, NO. 11,791 » “ALL TIIE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MO: ALL THE TIME” NDAY, APRIL 23, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PRl 8 o Weteorsil UN Forces Pull Back From Red Dffensive 7 SENTENCED, |MacArihur NAZIS LOSE | To Chicago ~ CASEAPPEAL| On Thursday CHICAGO, April 23 —®— Gen- eral MacArthur is coming to Chicagc Thursday and the nation’s second largest city is all set for a super welcome, Soldier Fi€ld, the lake front open- air arena, was reserved yesterday for a mass civic recoption Thursday night. But the greeting will get under- way in high style the moment th¢ general’s plane, “The Bataan,’ touches ground about noon at Mid- way Airport. An official receptior committee of 200 prominent citizens including retired Generals Charle G. Dawes and Robert E. Wood, wil be on hand. Before heading for the downtown loop area and a formal parade, the general will be given military hon- ors, including a 17-gun artillery salute by Fifth Army artillerymen, at the airport. A crushing crowd of 3,000,000 — about 75 per cent of Chicago’s pop- ulation — is expected to take part in the mammoth celebration. ‘WASHINGTON, April 23 —®— The seven Nazis sentenced to death in Germany for concentration camy atrocities lost their bid today for Supreme_Court hearing. The high tribunal refusal to re- view their case presumably clear the way for military authorities tc carry out the executions, The seven Nazis include former SS (Elite Guard) officers and con- centration camp officials, accusec of murdering thousands of civilians during World War II. They are thc last Nazis under death sentences. The court’s decision not to grani the men a hearing was reached by a vote of 6 to 2. Justices Black anc Douglas favored reviewing the case Justice Jackson took no part ir consideration of the appeal. Jack- son at one time served as chief U 8. presecuter at the trial of tor Nazi leaders at Nuernberg, Ger- many. The seven originally were ordered to go to the gallows last February 14, at the United States prison at Landsberg, Germany. In other actions today the high tribunal: 1. Ruled 8 to 1 that states with compulsory automobile insurance laws can force insurance companies to issue policies to “bad risk’ motor- ists who otherwise would be in- eligible, The case involved the Cali- fornia State Automobile Association Inter-Insurance Bureau which had refused to insure persons not mem- bers of the association. 2.. Decided unanimously that GI insurance may be paid to a brother by adoption of the policy holder. heard the news in a radio broadcast, 3. Held unanimously that a toy!Maj. Gen, Courtney Whitney said pig patented by a Chicagoan as alin an interview. device to encourage junior to eat his| She, in turn, informed her hus- cereal was not really an invention)band of President Truman’s action and that another firm could not |20 minutes before the arrival of of- have infringed the patent by putting | ficial word from Washington, Whit- out a similar device in the form of | ney said. a toy puppy. The general has received a cable The seven doomed Nazis include] from Syngman Rhee, president of former SS Generals Otto Ohlendorf | the Republic of Korea, lauding the and Oswald Pohl. Ohlendorf Wasjdeposed Far East commander for convicted as head man of an ex-|his “magnificent” address before termination group in Russia which ! Congress. Kkilled 90,000 persons. Pohl at one] Whitney released the text of the time was in charge of all German |cablegram. concentration camps. “The government and the people SO of the Republic of Korea,” it read, “join me in extending our spon- taneous and wholehearted congrat- ulations to you on your magnificent address delivered before the joint session of Congress ...." MacArthur, meanwhile, remained in seclusion in his hotel suite here resting after the most tumultous welcome New York City ever paid a returning hero. His wife and son Arthur, 13, are going to the circus this afternoon. NATIONAL PARK AND FOREST SERV. MAKE SURVEY TRIP Beginning today, six weeks inves- tigation of resources of Southeast Alaska is being carried on by the National Park Service in coopera- tion with the U. S. Forest Service. A preliminary meeting was held in Ketchikan the last of last week with Assistant Regional Forester Charles Burdick, Thomas J. Wil- liams, assistant superintendent, Olympic Park, Dr. Adolph Murie, biologist and Louis Caywood, arche- ologist and historian, the latter three are of the National Park Ser- vice, conferring. Williams heads the National Park group and Knox Marshall will rep- resent the Forest Service on the survey. The trip is being made aboard the Forest Service vessel Forester. REASON FOR DISMISSAL NOT KNOWN BY GENERAL NEW YORK, April 23 —(P— Gen- eral Douglas MacArthur’s personal adviser said today that “to this day, General MacArthur never has been informed as to the reasons for his summary dismissal and he hasn't the faintest idea why the action was taken.” The Far East commander first learned that he had been siripped of his commands from his wife, who NEW STAF¥ MEMBER ¥OR O. P. 5. OFFICE Recent addition to the O.P.S. staff here is William J. Winn of Seattle who arrived here Saturday. Winn, who will be a staff economist for O.P.S, recently resigned his position with the Veterans of For- eign Wars office in Seatle. Winn is not new to Alaska, hav- ing spent considerable time here during the war with the ACS. His wife and two children will come to Juneau in about a month. ENGINEER HERE R. C. Caldwell, engineer with Thomas B. Bourne Association of Alaska at Anchorage, is in Juneau for a few days on business. He is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951. by_Bell Syadicate, Inc.. ASHINGTON.—The last time I talked to Senator Vandenberg was in December, shortly after the tragic December defeat in Korea. Following this, certain GOP Sena- tors had gone hog-wild against the bipartisan foreign policy, and I phoned Vandenberg in Grand Rap- ids to see if he had any ideas about getting that policy kack on an even keel. A couple of friends were then trying to get Truman and Taft to- gether for a personal, face-to-face talk, minus publicity, in order to pull our harassed and sadly disuni- ted foreign policy off the partisan Trocks. . Telling Senator Vandenberg about this, I asked if he couldn’t help. Perhaps a statement from him, or a phone call to senate lead- ers would start the ball rolling. But Vandenberg was skeptital. “The boys have the bit in their tgeth,” he said, “and I doubt if BACHELDER HERE T. S. Bachelder, Fairbanks con- tractor, arrived here Sunday on PAA from Seattle and is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. STEAMER MOVEMENTS i Baranof from Seattle scheduled | to arrive at 5 o’clock Tuesday morn- ing. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday, April 5. Denali scheduled to sail Seattle Friday. P it e e from (Continued on Page Four) DEMOCRAT IS NAMED T0 SENATE Michigan Governor Ap- points Newspaperman Successor Vanderberg LANSING, Mich., April 23 — Blair Moody, Washington spondent for the Detroit News, was named today by Governor Men- nen Williams as U. S. Senator from Michigan succeeding the late Ar- thur H. Vandenberg. The 49-year-old Moody has been assigned to the News Washington Bureau since 1933. During World War II, he served as war corre- spond for the News and the North American Newspaper Alliance. “Senator Moody is a Democrat,” Williams said in announcing the ap- pointment, Moody's political affilia- tion was not generally known be- fore, but an associate on the Deiroit News described him W “A New Dealer from the start.” Moody’s appointment gives the Democrats a four-vite margin in the Senate. Vandenberg was a Re- publican. “Blair Moody most completely meets the needs of Michigan for Senate representation and needs of the nation for capable, vigorous and experienced leadership,” Williams said. Moody’s interim appointment is until the end of the current term, ending in January, 1953. He is Michigan’s first Democratic senator since Prentiss W. Brown lost out' to Republican Homer Fer- guson in 1942. Moody's experience as a news- rpaperman has been world-wide. | ' | CLIMAXTEST A-BOMB SOON IN PACIFIC HONK KONG, April 23 —®— Senator Magnuson (D-Wash) said today the climax of the United States’ nuclear fission tests in mid= Pacific is scheduled “some time within the next week or so.” He declined to say whether a new type atom bomb is being tried, but added: “It has to do with nuclear fis- sion.” Magnuson said the test would climax a series the Atomic Energy Commission has been conducting “for the past 40 days.” The experiments are being con- ducted at the U. S. atomic proving ground at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. The AEC has reported tests were scheduled there this spring, but has kept dates and details secret. Magnuson said he would leave in three or four days for Kwajalein, some 200 miles from Eniwetok, en route to witness the tests. Magnuson arrived today “to in- vestigate the feasibility of broaden- ing the U. S. immigration legisla- tion to permit entry of more dis- placed persons from the Far East.” FROM PETERSBURG Paul Vahl of Petersburg is stop- ping at the Baranof hotel. WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Perod ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 52; minimum, 33. At Airport — Maximum, 56; minimum, 28, FORECAST Increasing cloudiness to- night with lowest near 36 degrees. Mostly cloudy with intermittent light rain Tues- day, Highest temperature Tuesday near 48 degrees. L4 PRECILPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today ® City of Juneau — None; Since April 1 — 17.27 inches; Since July 1 — 65.20 inches. At Airport — None; Since April 1 — 254 inches. Since July 1 — 38.39 inches. ® 0 000 00 00 DULLES HAS HIS DOUBTS ~ ABOUTWAR Wants to Fight Now-01- ficial Enroute fo U. S. TOKYO, April 23 —(®— John Foster Dulles said today there is some risk of general war but he | doubts the rulers of Russia want | war now. | The special ambassador told the | United Nations Association of Japan Soviet leaders are spreading fear of direct aggression_and armed attack “to frighten the free peoples into & | condition which will make themf vulnerable to conquest from within.” Dulles came here to assure Jap= anese that General MacArthur’s dismissal would have no effect on | plans for an early Japanese peace | treaty. He left Tokyo by plane at 6 p.mg t 1 1} i il H \Doesn’t Believe Russia|Be ] for Washington to report to Presi- | dent Truman. He is due at Anchor= | age about 3 p.m. Anchorage time f today. | Dulles tol the Japanese UN As- | sociation that the United States will |not ebandon Asia but will stand | firmly against aggression in this i part of the world. Program Outlined He pointed out: ! 1. The U. 8. Far Eastern Air Forces have been expanded. Two in-~ |in Japan. 2. The U. S. has offered Japan a. bilateral security and is prepared to conclude a mu- tual defense arrangement with Aus- tralia and New Zealand. 8. President Truman has reiter- | | ated that armed attack on the Phili- | pines would be regarded by the U.: S. as “dangerous to its own peace | and safety.” 4. American strategic Air Forces could be hurled from bases in the 1U. 8. to the aid of any country in the world. Dulles was accompanied by his | wife, Assistant Secretary of the Army Earl Johnson, Robart Searey of the State Department, and Col. C. Stanton Babcock, Army depart- | ment member of the Dulles mission. The plane, a U. 8. Government Constellation, will fly from Anch- orage to Washington by way of Seattle or Minneapolis. | CRISIS IN ' BRITAIN'S | 50C. GOVT. LONDON, April 23 —®— The crisis in Britain’s Socialist govern- | ment was reported deepening today. | Informed sources said a second cab- | inet member has quit in protest against the trimming of free med- ical services in favor of the re- armament drive. These sources said the cabinet’s | youngest member, 35-year-old Har- old Wilson, had handed in his res- ignation as president of the Board of Trade. Such a move would further rock Prime Minister Attlee’s unsteady | fantry divisions are to ke stationed | g arcangement 1] | is moving again i A blizzard of ticker ticker tape and paper virtually blots out the scene on lower Broadway, New York, as the city goes all out in welcome to Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The Blizzard cheering throng which jammed sidewalks. (® Wirephoto. Hifs Mac The general (circled) waves to the 1100- MILE 'FRONTIS ATTACKED Commies Launch One At- | tack Successfully-Stop- | ped Cold Elsewhere By Associated Press United Nations troops pulled back as much as 12 miles under the im- 1 | pact of a major Red offensive which raged along 100 miles of the Korean N | front today. | In other sectors the Allies stopped the Reds cold, Where the Allies | withdrew it was in orderly fashion. ! The Communists, with nearly 700,- 1000 men facing the front, launched | their attack at 7:30 Sunday night behind their heaviest artillery bar- rage of the war. Their assault eased in daylight Monday, but was renewed with fresh vigor Monday night, L Maybe Spring Push One intelligence officer called the | attack the Reds’ “major effort.” But another spokesman said Monday it's still too early to tell if it is the Reds’ long-expected big spring push. Close censorship delayed news of the offensive 14% hours. Then it permitted only a fragmentary pic- ture of the battle. Red’s 15-Mile Front The Reds forced a crossing of the Imjin river along' a 15 mile A front in the west. They were Bl | checked by concentrated UN air and artillery fire. This crossing is S 25 miles northwest to 30 miles north \! j§ | ean capital. % | UN troops pulled back south of N of Seoul, shell-shattered South Kor- the Hantan river, in the adjoining Bl | sector of the east. They blew their | bridges behind them. d | Strewn With Bodies - | The Western front was strewn { with bodies of thousands of Chinese, { cut down by artillery and air bom- | bardment. | All along the Central front Al- ! lied troops “rolled with the punch.” Quake Shakes Hawaiian Isle HONOLULU, April 23 —®— A| strong earthquake on the big island of Hawaii Sunday prompted specu- lation today that the Kilauea vol- cano may rumble into eruption after 16 years of silence. A two-minute quake shook the is- land at 2:53 p.m. Windows in down- town Hilo, the island’s largest city, were shattered but no other damage or casualties were reported. Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, volcano- logist, said “It 100ks like the lava at Kilavea. A sharp quake of this nature usually precedes volcanic activity.” Kilauea, inactive for 16 years, had been erupting on an average of once every 11 years. “It’s five years Jaggar said. Food Riols, overdue now,” Labor government, already reeling under the impact of fiery Aneurin | Bevan's resignation yesterday from | the post of Labor Minister, | ‘! There were unconfirmed reports { that one or two junior ministers | | were planning to follow Bevan and | wilson. | Labor party circles believed the | revolt might result in the govern- | ment’s defeat in the budget debates | this week, forcing a general election | X S0 R, i VUILLE TO SEATTLE | ene Vuille, president of Juneau | Shrine Club, plans to leave Friday | | for Seattle to attend a Shrine Club | 1 Presidents conference at Nile Tem-: | ple in Seattle. The conference in- | | cludes representatives from Alaska, | i | | | | | \ | Gene expects to return Sunday. ! G. F. BURT HERE ! |is staying at the Baranot Hotel. | i | G. F. Burt, representative of the ! ® Colgate Palmolive Peet Co., Seattle, |, Ellis is temporary president of Troops Out CALCUTTA, India, April 23 —(®— Food riots in the northeastern part of famine-threatened India resulted in six deaths and injuries to scores of persons over the weekend. A tense situation still prevailed in the troop-patrolled city of Cooch Behar, capital of the former prince- ly *state of the same name and scene of the disorders. The six were killed when police opened fire on 5,000 hunger march- ers Saturday after they ignored an order to disperse. Twenty-four po- licemen and 32 demonstrators were injured. ELLIS TO CORDOVA Robert Ellis, wellknown Ketchikan | ® Japan, and part of Washington.| airlines operator, flew to Juneau Saturday from Annette Island via Pan American and went on to Cor- dova via Pacific Northern Airlines Sunday on business, the Alaska Visitors Association. Russians Don't Pray, Says One BALTIMORE, April 23 —(P—Sen- ator Wiley (R-Wis) based his speech here last night on a remark Rus- sian Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky made to him four years ago. Wiley recalled that when he was introduced to Vishinsky, he told the Russian: “I pray every night that the United States, Russia and Great Britain . will have a sincere desire for peace.” Vishinsky's reply: “I don’t pray.” And that's what's wrong with the world today, the senator observed A member of the Senate Crime In- vestigating Committee, Wiley spoke on religion at the University Baptist church in Baltimore. CANNERY DAMAGE SUIT IS CONTINUED UNTIL DECEMBER A suit in U. S. District Court brought by the Naket Packing Cor- poration, the American Can Com- pany, Northern Electric Co, and 38 insurance companies against the U. 8. Government, which was scheduled to start May 7, 1951, has been continued over until December 3, 1951, according to Patrick J Gilmore, U. 8. District Attorney, who represents the government. The plaintiffs are asking approx- imately half a milllon dollars for alleged damages and loss resulting from a fire which destroyed the Union Bay cannery last year. DRAWS $80 SPEEDING FINE William Kirkevold was fined $80 in City Magistrate's Court today on a charge of speeding 60 miles an hour through the Waynor Tract at 5:30 Sunday morning SITKA VISITOR Kenneth Albright of Sitka is stopping at the Baranof Hotel H F. Rosler of Seattle is reg- istered at the Baranof Hatel. 4 | They fought from new positions ‘Mandny night over a battlefield | garishly lighted by giant search | lights, ,flood lights and flares "Cotton Tom Passes Away . s (UN withdrawals below the Han- jtan and on the Central front ap- | parently were to straighten the Al- LAFAYETTE, Ala,, April 23 —»— | lied line. Tt bulged northward at this Heavlest concentrations of J. Thomas “Cotton Tom” Heflin, |Point. former U. S. senator and one of | Red troops were in this area), Alabama’s most stormy political fig- | Allled forces stood firm on the ures, died at his home here yester- East Central front against Red as- day. He was 82. | saults through Sunday night and The former senator and congress- | Monday —morning. Then action man, whose political career ended | Quieted. in 1930 after his break with the| Reds Drive Wedges Democratic party two years earlier| On the extreme right the Reds over the presidential nomination of | drove wedges into the defense line Al Smith, had been in declining |POrth of Inje. héalth for several years, | Attacking Reds took terrific pun- A fiery figure, noted orator, and ! ishment from UN air and artillery, unrelenting champion of white su- | both blasting away around the clock. withdrawals, the UN premacy, Heflin was outspoken in Alrmen estimated they killed 1,800 his criticism of “the wolves of Wall | Reds Monday, their biggest toll in Street,” Tammany Hall, the Ro- | three and a half months. man Catholic hierarchy and the Big Air Battle ‘liquor interests.” | 1In far Northwest Korea 12 U. 8. 7o OS2 Dl Wy | Sabre jets shot down four Russian | made MIG jets and damaged an- 'HREE M!SSING | other four. It was the largest air ! pattle in 10 days. And it raised to “ pl A"E F”GH'I' | 159 the number of MIG jets knock- o | ed out since early November. | Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, M(GRAIH ANCH. | commander of the v.s. mightn 7 " | Army, had expressed confidence T | before the Red assault that his men ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 23— | could stop any Red counterblow. He (M—The Civil Aeronautics Author- | added: “If the enemy knew what I ity reported today that a Bethel| know, he would go back to China school teacher and two young chil- | right now.” dren were missing in a light plane | pegpite on a flight from McGrath to Aneh= | @ e orage. | (Cuotinued on Page Two) The CAA said the plane, piloted — by the teacher, took off from Mc- ' Grath yesterday morning and was SIO(K o“e{"'o"s due here three hours later. Aboard were a 15-year-old boy pupil -and NEW YORK, April 23 — Closing the teacher's 6-year-old daughter.| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Only the pilot’s last name — Gann— | stock today is 2%, American Can was ‘known here, | 110%, American Tel. and Tel. 154%, A Stimson Voyager of the same Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft description as Gann'’s craft was said | 103, General Electric 55%, General to have been seen circling Farewell, | Motors 53%, Goodyear 77, Kenne- about 100 miles from McGrath, two | cott 74%, Libby McNeill and Libby hours after the trio’s takeoff. |9, Northern Pacific 38%, Standard McGrath is in Interior Alaska on|Oil of California 45%, Twentieth the Kuskokwim river about 300 | Century Fox 20%, U. S. Steel 44%, miles northwest of Anchorage. ‘ Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange —_— » | 94 FROM SEATTLE E Sales today were 1,160,000 shares. Bill Hingston of the Washington | Averages today were as follows: Fish and Oyster Co., Seattle, is| Industrials 255.12, rails 82.65, utili- stopping at the Baranof Hotel. rles 4238,