The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 4, 1951, Page 1

VOL. LX‘(VIII., NO. 11,801 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE P YALL-TLE NEWS ALL THE TIME” | JUNEAU, ALASKA, H\I])\\ \H\ 4, 1951 \IFI\IBFR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MacArthur Gives More Facts On Kerean War RED PRICE GOING TO BEBLOODY Supreme Commander Ridgway Has Confidence in UN Korean Forces By Associated Press Supreme Commander Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway said today the Communist Chinese “will continue to pay the bloody price they've been paying” in the Korean war. Returning from a front line visit to his troops, Ridgway said his men “have complete confidence, com- plete self-assurance in their ability to handle anything that's thrown at them.” He scoffed at “the empty Com- munist promises to throw us out of Korea and destroy the UN Army. “So far, the only things they've [ succeeded in destroying are a few tens of thousands more of their own men, and so far as I can see they're} going to continue to do that — con- tinue to pay the bloody price they've been paying,” the new supreme commander declared. He spoke as United Nations planes and tank patrols raided Communist buildup areas. Red Regrouping The fighting fronts were relative- ly quiet but behind the safety of distant hills the Chinese were re- grouping and rearming their forces for another blow in the hope of driving UN forces from Korea. Allied planes reported enemy trucks were rolling southward by the thousands. They are feeding the buildup ~rea< th new equipmenc and _aipplits v the-clock bombing missions. During the day the Communists lost 1,740 men in killed and wounded. New reinforcements began to ar-| rive for UN forces. The vanguard of the Canadian 25th Infantry regi- ment landed at Pusan. Brigadier | John M. Rockingham said his men were “willing and anxious to do the! job™ and eager to get into frontline fighting. !too. Rand McNally printed 250,000 RED ST Five Million For Memoirs By MacArthur NEW YORK, May 4 —®— Gen- eral Douglas MacArthur, whose sal- ary and allowances come to $18,761 a year, has been offered $5,000,000 for his memoir: The offer was disclosed last night by Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney, MacArthur's personal aide. ‘Whitney jhowever, declined to say who made the offer. Neither did he say how the deposed Far Easterin commander reacted to the offer. BEST SELLER LIST CRACKED BY MacARTHUR NEW'YORK, May 4 — (#— Gen Douglas MacArthur has cracked the best-seller list with the by-products of his “old soldiers’ speech o Con- gress April 19, All told, recordings of the d.a- matic address are expected to reach a total sale of 2,000,000. Equally “phenomenal” sales are reported for the hastily produced records of the “Old Soldiers Never Die” ballad, which the gencral re- vived into an over-night hit in his} speech. The address is out in book I"rm.l copies at 50 cents each. The pub- lishers report, “All the distributors have gobbled them up; the; ing very fast.” , CTRENP 'I'l,l! (VT H AT 200 DIVS. SAY BRITISH, LONDON, May 4 —(®— British re sell- . | government intelligence has revised its estimate of Soviet Army strength | to 200 divisions, a qualified source said today. Only last -March American and British estimates of Russian strength placed Soviet Army man- ipower at 175 divisions and 2,800,000 [men l The new figure doé§ not necc\»l saryily mean the Soviets are mobil- izing, the source said. It could mean that better or more detailed intelli- Igence reports brought about the re- vision, or it could mean the Rus- sians are building their forces in the same way the western Allies are swelling theirs. An aveérage Russian division is be- i lieved to be made up of 10,000 com-l jbat troops plus the usual reserves. technicians, cooks, drivers and so forth. MULLENS GO SOUTH J. F. Mullen, President of the B. M. Behrends Bank, and Mrs. Mullen left Wednesday via PAA for the states where he will attend to business matters. They expect to return within three weeks, GAMES TODAY NEW YORK, May 4 — (& —Sal Naglie yielded a triple to lead-off man Pete Castiglione in the first inning today and then stopped the Pittsburgh Pirates cold without a hit the rest of the way to lead the New York Giants to a 5-1 victory. Cincinnati 5, Brooklyn 4. Two night games, TO FAIRBANKS L. B. Avrit of the Em- ployment Security Commis- sion office, left Juneau Tuesday for Fairbanks on business for her department. She will go to Anch- orage Sunday on a similar mission, and then return to Juneau. » Three night American games. The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON fCovyright, 1951. vy Bell Syadicate, Inc.. Mrs. ASHINGTON. — Nine months STEAMER MOVEMENTS before the Korean war General MacArthur predicted that the Chi- Freighter Sailors Splice from Seat- nese Communists could be “easily|tle scheduled to arrive Saturday. defeated in any major conflict”and| Baranof scheduled to sail from remarked that Chiang Kai-Shek|seattle late today. “knew nothing about the art of! Princess Louise scheduled to sai’ warfare.” A from Vancouver Saturday 8 p.m. These amazing statements, exact-| pDenali scheduled to arrive Sunday ly the opposite of what MacArthur{at 3 a.m.. southbound now professes to believe, are con- SRR Sy tained in a secret report to Presi- dent Truman, submitted by Con- SIO(K QUOTAHOHS gressman Charles Deane of North Carolina in September 1949. Deane| ypw YORK, May 4 — Cloxmg‘ was he"dl of a Cong\e\smMnal“d;‘é]l‘E- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine gation which called on MacArthur| g .y today is 2%, American Can mDTeOk&O el d‘"‘lv‘[’“"r hur as | 1137 American Tel. and Tel. 156%, e ToRorige 1 MacHr ° 1 Anaconda 43':, Douglas Aircraft believing that the “Chinese Reds!j i"C8 s 3 g % i, General Electric 56, General were greatly overrated and could be ke = g Motors 537, Goodyear 78%, Kenne- easily defeated in any major con- 2 . g vy ¥ cott 77%, Libby, McNeill and Libby ict.” Also that the “Soviets werelg, Northern Pacific 37%, Standard powerless to conduct a full- ccnlclo']‘ of Csiitaenia’ bk ’I: v‘fn i war on the China mainland.” sitfornis. 4p%, TwenHath But the most remarkable state- ment was MacArthur's reference to invasion of the Chinese main- land. Deane quoted MacArthur direct- . (Continued on APuge Four) | Century Fox 21'% Pound $2.80'%, Car 94.62'%. Sales today were 2,050,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 262.77, rails 85.06, utili- ties 42.53. U S. Steel 45 lian Exchange ®eeceee®e0s0000%0000000c 0 ELBOW ROOM ONLY — Trout fishermen line banks of Catherine Creek. Seneca Lake near Watkins Glen, at start of New York season in this favorite Finger Lake vegion fishing spot ESCORT IN chANY_«A..m,»wmm'»een training animals since she was sixteen, walks on a Munich street wlul her pet cheetahs, "All” and “Rigo” on leashes. 26 Radar Stations In . S., Terrifories To Be Construd WASHINGTON, May 4, — (® — The government plans to place modern airport surveillance radar installations at 26 points in the United States, Alaska and Hawail | during the year starting July 1. | These devices, which scan the skies and detect planes within a 30-mile radius, will be civilian in- stallations, but will be closely tied in wn.h the national defense set- Seek Oscar Winner for Ouesllonmg HOLLYWOOD, May 4 — (P — were disclosed in House Appro- Academy award-winning producer- | priations subcommittee testimony director Robert Rossen is being made public today. sought along with nine other movie| The list of proposed radar sites figures for questioning by the House | was presented to the committee by Un-American Activities committee, |C. F. Horne, director of the office U. S. Marshal James J. Boyle says.|of Federal Airways. The machines Rossen, who directed “All the|would be installed and operated by King's Men,” was identified in testi- | the Civil Aeronautics Administra- mony before the committee April 12 | tion. by Writer Richard J. Collins as a one-time Communist. Reached at Acapulco, Mexico, la‘ti night, Rossen declined comment onj the summons, except to say “It's ail ne: to me and I'll wair until I\ get some notification.” Tied in With Defense Horne did not in his testimony discuss use of jthe surveillance radars, but a CAA spokesman told ia newsman “they will be closely tied in with the defense set-up.” “Identification,” he added, “is a majur function of the CAA. We are linked directly by phone, tele- types and otherwise with defense facilities.” The radars are not, he said, pri- marily for defense purposes, but they will constitute a backstop for military installations. Their value for identification purposes in wartime is obvious, the CAA spokesman said. He added that the radars are to be placed “in general” at airports handling a heavy vqlume of traffic. He noted, however, that many of the sites are adjacent to strategic defense areas. Installations outside the U. S would be located at Annette Island and Fairbanks, Alaska, and Hono- | dudu, WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Pertod ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau Maximum, 49; minimunr, At Airport 50; minimum, 39. 38. Maximum, FORECAST Mostly fair tonight and Saturday. Lowest tempera- ture tonight about 35. High- est Saturday near 56. PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today e City of Juneau — .19 inches; Since May 1 — .19 inches; Since July 1 — 68.24 inches. At Airport — .10 inches; Hal Fairhurst, Marshall-Wells Since May 1 12 inches; e |salesman from Anchorage is stop- Since July 1 — 3939 inches.e | ping at the Gastineau Hotel for a e o 0o e o o o o o o leydays HAL FAIRHUR! T HERE U. 5. SOLDIER SHOT BY REDS; REGRETS SENT VIENNA, Austria, May 4 —(®— | An American military policeman was shot to, death by two Russian soldiers early today and U. S. au-| thorities immediately demanded that the Soviet officials join in an investigation. An gutopsy showed the American, Cpl. Paul Gresens, 28, of Rochester, N. Y., was struck in the stomach by | nine bullets from a Russian machine pistol. Opl.-Jack Morgan of -Keokuk, Ia., who was with Gresens on pa- 10 and 20 feet away from Gresens when they cut loose with about 20 shots after being challenged in Cen- tral Vienna outside a night club. | The Russians fled to the Soviet sector after the shooting. Lt. Col. A. Korshev, the Soviet provost marshal in Vienna, was re- ported to have expressed verbal re- | grets in a two-hour talk this after- noon with Lt. Col. Henry G. Thomas, | s U. S. opposite number. American military police are ln control of the sector where the shooting occurred during the month of May. The control rotates among the occupying pawers each month. Daily Worker Man Is Guilty 0f Confempt WASHINGTON, May 4 — M — Philip Bart, general manager of the Daily Worker, Communist party newspaper in New York, has been convicted of contempt of Congress. U. 8. District Judge Burnita S. Matthews, who heard the Bart case | without a jury, late yesterday found the long-time Communist organizer guilty on eight counts of contempt. The government had dropped 24 other counts in the indictment. Contempt of Congress is punish- able by a fine of up to $1,000 and by up to a year in jail. JUNE DRAFT CALL 20,000; SMALLEST SINCE SEPTEMBER WASHINGTON, May 4 » — The Army today issuea a draft call for 20,000 men in June. This, is the smallest in number PRESIDENT INSISTS HE {Truman SaFMacAflhur's Testimony Bringing Out New Points WASHINGTON, May 4 — (R — Harry Truman — tight-lip) watchfully waiting — says he’s sure the Senate hearings will prove he was right and Gen. MacArthur was wrong. And he came pretty close yester- day to saying MacArthur told Sen- ate investigators something that wasn’t true. . ‘The President’s weekly news eon- feréhce ran a poor second, in the headline count, to MacArthur's hard-punching testimony, given at the same time at the other end of | town. o MacArthur said, among many other things, that the Central In- telligence Agency thought there was “very little chance” last November jof the Chinese Communists enter- ing the Korean war. (It was in No- | vember that they did enter the war). Asked about this, Mr. Truman said (A) the CIA didn’t make any such report to him, and (2) Mac- Arthur didn't even allow the CIA to operate in his command until re- cently. The CIA {5 the nation’s top-level intelligence agency. Mr. Truman said its director, Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, made a special flight to Tokyo and persuaded MacArthur to | make use of it. The President said MacArthur 1| convinced him at their Wake Island conference in October that the Chi- nese Reds were not going to strike. When they did strike, he said, he was more sorry than surprised. But MacArthur, he said, was very much surprised. Getting away from the MacArthur controversy briefly, Mr. Truman said Willlam O'Dwyer, ambassador to Mexico, still has his full confi- dence. HAINES ROAD OPEN T0 LIGHT TRAFFIC; TO TRUCKS BY 15TH Word was received this morning by Frank A. Metcalf, Territorial Highway Engineer, from Col. J. Young, Canadian road official, that the Haines Cut-Off is now open for light traffic. This includes passenger cars and pickup trucks. Heavy trucks will be admitted over the road by the 15th of the month. Col. Young drove down over the highway to Haines and pronounced ;the road in good condition with dust in some places. | Al Lubcke, Territorial Highway | patrolman also drove up the Cut- | off yesterday to Mile 87 and re- ports everything in good shape. $10,000 Verdict Awarded Seaman SEATTLE, May 4, —®— Henry Lems, 62, Renton, has been awarded a $10,000 judgment against the Al- aska Steamship Company by a jury | in Superior Court, James D. McCutcheon, Jr., Lem’s attorney, introduced evidence that Lems was trapped ketween a truck and a bulkhead while the truck was being moved on the deck of | the Steamship Baranof May 15, {1950, as the vessel was south of | Ketchikan., | Lems, a deck maintenance man |on the Baranof at the time, suf- |fered permanent injuries to his any monthly call since the draft!rizht elbow and wrist. was resumed last September that time, a total of 550,000 men have been drafted or placed on call| for Army duty. Since | NEW PATROLMAN A new patrolman has been added 1 to the staff of the Territorial High- | | ‘The Atmy got 80,000 men in P’lch‘ way Patrol in the Fairbanks area, of the first three months of this| Frank A. Metcalf, Territorial High- year. Thereafter, the April draf!lway Engineer, said today. He is was halved to 40,000 and the May | Sherman L. Edwards, of Fairbanks, quota was reduced from 60,000 tu who replaces Fabian Carey, resigned. 40.000. The Army said the cutbacks were | made because of the greater num- ber of men volunteering for service chikan, BOB ELLIS HERE Bob Ellis of Ellis Airlines at Ket. is here with his family. and the lower-than-expected casual- They are staying at the Baranof ties in Korea, Hotel. ~® General Explains Why He Split UN Forces in Drive on WASRIGHT| Manchurian Border; Gives SIaIemenIAbouI Bombings WASHINGTON, May 4 — (P — Gen. Douglas MacArthur said to- day the Joint Chiefs of Staff ap- proved when he split his United Na- tions forces last fall in a drive for the Korean-Manchurian border. MacArthur made that statement while under questioning from Sen- ator McMahon (D-Conn), a vigor- ous supporter of the Truman admin- istration position in the Far Eastern policy row that led to the general's dismissal from his commands. MecMahon brought up also a Mac- Arthur statement of last fall that his forces were launching a “win- the-war” offensive which woulc have them home by Christmas. There has been some criticism of MacArthur because he split the 8th Army and the 10th Corps, sending them off on different slants toward the Yalu river, When the Chinese Communists poured into Korea in force, the 8tk Army and the 10th Corps were not in position tu join forces for sup- port of each other. Okehed by Chiefs MacArthur told McMahon: “The movements, all tactical anc strategic movements that I made had the prior knowledge and ap- proval of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.’ MecMahon said MaeArthur yester- day had described the drive by his forces in Nocember as “a reconnais- sance in force.” Then he said: “As I recollect it, Genera), last November you issued a communique in which you said that this was the end-of-the-war offensive which would bring the boys home by Christmas.” “That was my hope,” replied. McMahon: “Did you anticipate that you could get them home by Christmas with a reconnaissance in force?” Move Explained, MacArthur: “The reconnaissance MacArthur not to bomb within five miles of the Yalu, the boundary between Korea and Manchuria, Bomb to Border That would have meant the Chi- nese Communists, pouring into Korea last fall, could come in for five miles without air attack. MacArthur said this first order was changed after he protested vig- orously and he then was allowed to bomb to the border. He testified his planes then were permitted to bomb to the middle of the bridges over the river. Wants Facts Public Knowland said that if a Pentagon message dealing with this could not be made public in its original word- ing, it ought to be paraphrased and given to newsmen. Knowland said he wants to ex- plore the matter with the Depart- ment of Defense. MacArthur, who returned to New York after yesterday's session with the senators, flew back this morning and took his place in the witness chair at 9:34 am. The 71-year-old general showed no signs of fatigue from the stren- uous day he put in on Thursday when for five hours he poured out, often in emotional terms, his bitter disagreement with the Truman ad- ministration policies on the Korean war. ' KOREAN PEACE CONFERENCE WASHINGTON, May 4—(P— Gen. Douglas MacArthur said today he understands Secretary of Defense Marshall has ruled a Korean peace conference might properly discuss Formosa's fate and admission of the Chinese Reds to the United 'Nations. MacArthur told senators that, on the other hand, the Joint Chiefs of Staff had recommended that any armistice “should specifically not include the recognitions of any seat- would have developed the strength|ing of Red China in the United Na- of the enemy. If it was not suffi-| tions or a consideration of turning cient to resist us, it would have|over Formosa." been an all-out assault and, as I{ ‘“That was the recommendation explained in my communique,’ it made by the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” would have undoubtedly destroyed |the deposed Pacific commander the last remnants of the North| said, adding: Korean forces." “It was, I understand, in those MacArthur added that the line|two particulars, disapproved by the between a reconnaissance in force|secretary of defense, who said that and an assault attack “is a rather|he believed that those two ltems nebuleus one and depends upon circumstances.” Too Muca Censorship Soon after MacArthur settled in the witness chair for his second day of testimony, Senator Know- land (R-Calif) protested there hac been too much censorship of Mac- Arthur’s testimony yesterday deal- ing with restrictions on American air operations in the Korean war. Knowland said Defense and State Department “combers” had deleted portions of yesterday's record hc believed should have been made public. Knowland is a member of the Senate Armed Services committee one of two Senate groups inquiring into MacArthur's dismissal from hi: Far Eastern commands and the pol- icy differences which led President might well be considered at the con- ference — the peace conference.” On his own views, MacArthur as® serted earlier that Formosa must be kept out of hostile hands at all costs. “Third World War” He said its loss might bring the “collgpse” of Japan and the Philip- pin and “invite a third World War.. And, repiying eaclier to Democra- tic fire for his public break with the Truman administration on Asian policy, MacArthur had declared: “7 do not believe in gag rule” “It seems to me,” he sald, “that the American people are entitled to certain basic facts when it involves the lives of their sons, and, per- haps the future of our country.” For the second day, the Tl-year- Truman to oust the five star general. | 514 general was in the witness chair Behind Closed Doors before senators inquiring into the The other committee is that of | js5ues and circumstances behind his Foreign Relations. summary dismissal from his Far The hearings are being held be-} pictern commands by President hind closed doors, but reporters are{ m.,man, given a stenographic trdnscript of what is said — after it has first| genators McMahon (D-Conn) and been “combed” by Senate and De-| gerayyver (D-Tenn), supporters of fense Department censors to take) ns. Tryman in this issue, took Mac- out information they think might) arihur to task for sending a letter injure the national security. to House Republican Leader Mar- Knowland’s protest dealt with|y, (Mass) endorsing the idea of (1) messages exchanged between Mac- bombing Red Chinese bases, and Arthur and the Pentagon about} o, ,s5ing Chinese Nationalist troops bombing operations in Korea itself.} ooqinst the Chinese Communists. Air Force Restrictions McMahon questioned “the advisa- “I knew that our Air Force was| v if not the impropriety” of & under some restrictions in goIng| rio1q4 commander’s expressing such north of the Yalu (river), but I} irrerences to “people in political had no understanding that there| e» and Kefauver peppered the were restrictions within Korea it- general along the same line. self, which was under aggression Nothing Wrong from the Chinese Comxu*mlsu But MacArthur refused to con- Letter to Martin Knowland said. He added that this material “is pertinent” and ought to be included in the public records of the com- mittees’ hearings. MacArthur told the senators yes- terday that he was first instructed cede he had done anything wrong. As on yesterday, reporters were barred from the hearing sessions. From the censored transeript sent to them, it was plain, however, that (Continued on Page Two)