The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 7, 1951, Page 1

VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,903 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE WALL TLE NEWS ALL THE TIME” | — . g 'S ' Marshall Testifies On MacArthur’s Views ART BURKE IS DROWNED WHEN BOAT CAPSIZES A Sunday afternoon outing turn- ed into tragedy when a boat cap- sized at the entrance of Auk Bay and drowned Art Burke, manager of the Home Grocery here. Burke, with Art Walther, truck- | driver of the Home Grocery, was traveling in a 14-foot boat powered by a 16-horsepower outboard motor from Tee Harbor to Auk Bay, made a turn not far from Jack Popejoy: cabin on the heach and the boat ca ed. Both men dressed in heavy clothing were thrown into the water but Walther floated on his back reached Burke and held him up while waiting to be picked up. Many persons along the beach were attracted by the high pitchec whine of the motor as the boat cap- sized. Reynolds Young and Larry Parker who were at Frank Field’s cabin used John Dougherty's boa and motor to pick up the pair, whc Long Toms "Serenade” Reds Smoke and flame belch from muzzles of the big 155 mm. Yank cannons on the western Korean front SECRETARY OF DEFENSE TESTIFYING Confends Gérnyeral's Pro- posals Would Risk All Out War with Soviefs WASHINGTON, May 7 — @ — Secretary of Defense Marshall con- tended to senators today that Gen Douglas MacArthur's Korean wa propo: would risk “an all-out war with the Soviet Union.” But under question from Senator Russell (D-Ga), Ma all |0 try is now “discu L other nations one of the deposed JUNEAU ILWU Af Ease! ISLOSER IN DAMAGE CASE Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds $750,000 Claim by Spruce Corporation SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 —(®— The Ninth U. 8. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a $750,000 damage judgment against the Inter- national Longshoremen’s and Ware- housemen’s Union and its Local 16 at Juneau, Alaska. The judgment was handed down by District Judge George W. Folta at Juneau May 20, 1949. The Jun- eau Spruce Corporation had claim- | l"w‘:’ i ""\(‘\”I T ed damages under the Taft-Hartley :‘{: :x" '(“[):“” b ;v % “1 I|n 1“‘”\:/‘:“.1 :)r »d Chi » added: * have Act. had been in the water about eight The damage grew out of jurisdic- not brought ue up as a formal or ten minutes when they were as Allied artillery pours a continuous round of fire In,n enemy pusmnns (® Wirephoto. tional d1<pu§: zetwe('n Lh: ILWU proposition for them to refuse.” reached. and the International Woodworkers Replying to MacArthur’s \cks Upon arrival at the beach Dr lIMITED of America, Local M-271, at Juneau. on the s Tatlon's tern Grace Field administered first aid A policies, Marshall also said: | iai The corporation said it had a col- g s Dr. C. C. Carter was notified anc End o' Day s work Jootive ba?:alnlng cm\trnctawtv.h Hia No Seating of Reds 1. The Truman administration’s | rushed out from Juneau with an inhalator. Meantime a small group of teen agers left their outing at Auk Bay recreation area fo assist in ar unsuccessful revival attempt. Phy- sicians and rescuers today praised the untiring efforts in administer- ing artificial respiration by six o seven boys and girls who displayec excellent training in the technique Jack Popejoy brought the cap- sized boat to shore. Burke is survived by his wife, Margaret, who is a8 bookkeeper at woodworkers for work at its mill and unwavering policy is to deny Na- ATTACKS IN KOREA Unifed Nations Forces Ex- retail yards at Juneau, The District Court found that the ILWU used picketing and coercive tactics between April 10, 1948, and July 19, 1948, to force a work stop- page, which closed its mill. ‘The corporation also charged that the ILWU longshoremen would not unload its lumber at ports in the Unjted States and Canada. tionalist-held Formosa to the Chi- nese Communists and to oppose Gen. Douglas MacArthur lines up his pipe for a puff during a briet | THinE of the Reds in the United ations interlude in Senate hearing in Washington, when doors were opened 9 AiJar A% meAtARaL f ik for photographers.. The break came after a morning of testimony | o & % F 19 MEPAHAICHI OF B¢ from the general before the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Arthur contended supported his Services committees on far eastern polieles‘ w» errplmtu proposals for fighting the Korean war by direct action inst Com- munist China, was drafted for use fend Battle Line in | ILWU, sald he would petition the orman Leonard, attorney for the US.TROOPS |[BOMBER if American troops had to withdraw from Korea, the Heme Grocery. Cantions Mevas “ourt for a Tenearing of today's de- 3. vThe riemorandum was - dis- | Ouer survivors 4re nis motner \ T cision. If jthe request is refused he d when it became apparent L] Mrs. Mary Burke of Juneau, a sis- B s-Z‘wa said he would carry the case to the | ] L] t American troops had turned ter, Mrs. E. E. Smith of Skagway T Amecialed i rige U. 8. Supreme Court. v v tide of battle - and an aunt, Mrs. Tillie Janiksels United Nations forces extended Sead ”’Mv"’*’“ flw, R ,“‘;4 ,,,,Thh: %v:imn::;du?r::efimg;g Treops Turn Baitle Tide of Juneau. oth anchors of their Korean battle - "h“’* 5 % T ndum | eontained L Burke was born at Sumdum, Jan | ine today — northwest of Seoul and M :::‘S?’;‘e:n‘;‘;s"“ charges of Com- VIA AIR 23 DEAD ommended agtion, 5 y four of which were quoted by 2, 1912, served in Wor)e, War II, was | 1orth of the 38th Parallel around a member of the Pioneers and the | inje in the east. These were cau- Elks. He was married to Margaret | jous, limited attacks. Nelson, April 11, 1936. They have South Korean troops jabbed care- no children. i ; ‘ully northwest of their battered Funeral services will be held here :apital against North Korean troops Wednesday. A detailed announce- ho had been told by one of their ment will be made tomorrow. fficers that there would be no big ffensive because “the war is about wer.” f « NINE (ARR'ED 0" Allied intelligence officers offeréd 10 interpretation of the statement, H.I.IS AIR"“ES ut presumably the North Kor fficer meant the war had reached « stalemate, with no victory- &n.\ll" ffensive expected from either side Despite constant Allied air pun- shment, the Reds kept their trans- rthur in his testimony last to senators ingniring into his REYKJAVIK, Iceland, May 7 — Glam 336 Comes DOWfl dismissal as Far Bastern commander M—A contingent of American troop: and policy dispute involved in it. arrived‘by air today at Keflavit in Flames, EXDIOdES 5. MacArthur was fired because : | ALASKA PLANS Mrpnrt, 30 miles from this capital of “basic differences of judgment ® WE M for the announced purpose of aid- a' landmg not only with the President, but the :§ ]Lng Iceland’s defense under the { Chiefs of Staff and Marshall him- 4 North Atlantic Alliance. The num- gy \“31 ber of troops was not announced. ALBUQUERQUE, May 17 n—1 Conference By Truman FOR WARRE" A giant B-36 bomber crashed in| while Marshall was defendinig ad- - flames as it tried to land at Kirt-| ministration policies before the sen- ment consisted of about' 200 mer J 8R4 Air Force base yesterday, kill-1 ators, President Truman: went over under the command of Brig. Gen | g 23 airmen. The explosion made | MacArthur’s ~ testimony with his FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 7 —® | gqward John McGaw of Philadel- he base resemble a junkyard essional leaders at the White —Alaska is preparing to go all-out{ ,hj, It was the fifth and worst B-36 :;‘V W""""‘:“gc l;e[pub:lcanl ?"""3:" (In European capitals, the opin- Ast © | ot roliing south, Far Eastern Afr| Two FOF Panther jet planes swing over the flight deck of their \month, '~ B IRSE 1 P S L “orce men called it an all cut Red) nother ship, the carrier USS Princeton. off the Korean coast—home- Warren is scheduled to address ;0,:;: prcu(:mblyg '.echn‘]’cians";nr“t‘ln‘ n, Mr | ftempt to resupply the Communist | y.;q bound after an air strike at Communist forces on the front. |commencement exercises May 21 at mnst"ym_ sk o s“rvey' possible srash since the Al e put the ivisions whose spring offensive had) y\ yjanes maintain round-the-clock operations against enemy troops '|the nearby University of Alaska. alr bases. In Wb narthern - Atlantic 139-ton, six engined bomby the] dent {s to deliver a major. Forelgn world’s largest — into ¢ Policy address at a Civil Defense fizzled. i Ty b alk by s o) Sl and supplies in close support of ground troops. U. 8. Navy Photo' via Denocratic Gov. Ernest Gruening, outpost of western defenses). e s s e (" Wirephoto, Gen. William E. Kepner, commander August, 1946. The toll of dinner. just three less than the combined| proude peaker Rayburn told leaths in the other four. White House reporters that the ried out night fighting jets. Threc in ka, and a host of SOROPTIMISTS ARE WORKINC | if these presumably new types of Pt (;f ;;Z:mi and mu:;:lpa! ON FIBBER McGEE SALI | sart made unsuccessful passes at Col. Perry G. Griffith, Kirtland | MacArthur issue came up at Mr. - 4y 2 Territorial lone UN B-26 before dawn Sunday (OLD STORAGE TIEUP 200 KIllED lN g:fi:ww :::n i ":ne:lt(e:hic Haren Annual Fibber McGee Closet Sal¢ SE“[ED HERE TODA" “ gt Amho;nge pri :ommander, said the flaming wreck- | fruman’s regular Monday morning announced by Soroptimists for Ma On the ground the Reds offerec Alaska '])orts between the Inter- EARTHOUAKE In Washington, defense officials told reporters the initial detach- Nine passengers traveled on Elli Airlines Monday flight with sever arriving in Juneau and two carriec on interport. Arriving from Ketchikan: Baade, John M. Short. From Wrangell: Mr. Eve Myesato, Mr. Hammer, Mr. Larsen From Petersburg: Art Uggen. onight at 7:30 (PDT) the Presi- The arrival of the troops appar- ently was no surprise to the people of this old island republic, since i’ was generally known that negotia tions had been under way for some- ime. Nevertheless, the announce nent of the arrival was published in extra editions of Reykjavik’ 1eWSpapers. the air.” All-Out World Conflict “I didn't want to logk,” said Ll Testifying at a closed session with William 8. Knipple. “I turned m testimony made pub- back.” Knipple is one of the thre hall said MacArthur's nembers of the -188th Fighte would risk an all-out world 3quadron who watched the crash. t “even at the expense of los- ‘The two survivors were in critical | ng our Allies and wrecking the Governor Warren will be guest of honor at a gigantic civic dinner tc be held Sunday, May 20, under age “looked like a burning oil fiel onference with his legislative lieu- Flames shot up almost 20 feet ir § renants, ¢ 12 is foremost activity of club mem. | NIy spotty opposition to UN force: bers during this week. ‘logtggng back _019;:2“t:;;ei§”:::9 n agreement for all Southeast ] wer is chairman of the | hat Communists i Qliye rg ine-day offensive that began Apr ” i i in th aational Warehous ’s i « 2 o « sale lehr ",;,;‘;‘,‘3 soturde. | 2 and cost them an estimated 75,000 | ¢'vyr R sponsorship of the City of Fairbanks | The government statement threv | sondigion at Sandia Special Wea- | sonlition of free peoples throughot ?m:\r ;n:mil '},‘ pm ] asualties. et were reachall Bl ot i o'zloZk SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador| A fishing trip is being planned foi | little light on the mission of the | sons base hospital. Sandia adjoin: | ne worid.” i5 : ; ‘ 5t J S. - 2 hY rthar 8 OpOoSe i i= As last year, the sale affords pec ‘his morning when Ketchikan was | May 7 —@— At least 200 persons|Dim & Juneau and sighseeing trips | Americans. <irtland ) Macarthur has proposed intensi “who send packages abroad 1 the last to sign the contract, Wallis | Were reported killed in an earth- 87 being raranged at each stopover.| During World War IT Iceland wa Twenty-two men were killed out-] rication of the economic squeeze D e 5 NER MPVEME“IS Y cei ; “ | quake yesterday in the cities of Ju-] The Board of Regents of the Uni-| major assembly point for convoy | right. The 23rd died at Sandia i | \gainst Red China, blockade of its R S b " Grqres, presidentls g e siinent y d Ch'y i versity , University President Dr.|:o Russia few minutes later. The bomber, al | coasts, air operations over Man= V] i v al - | cuapa an inameca. . 2 FHSE £ RO 3 asts, g a a chases. TheredMll be cloo;msni ri = : ::‘)ld Storage plant, announced to: Jxx:cuapa PRk Terris Moore and Governor Gruen- Members 8¢ parnarrems Deifo- | et ds tor ey S0k Ml s T ot | both men and W""‘de" nd‘t'a Baranof from Seattle due to ar- {day. OHinanicen . @bout & wiles east of ing will be the welcoming party]cratic parties were consulted, theljust finished a three-hour fligh troops from Formosa. and all will be in good condition. ive at 4 a.m, Tuesday. when the Warren plane arrives| government said, and it was agreec | from Carswell Air Force base, For MatARhur's Plans The previous wage for workers of | this capital. Jucuapa has a popula- Marshall said MacArthur “wol us, on our own initiative, contlict beyond Korea against nland of Communist China, air. k Worth, Tex. Winds in excess of 40 mi hour stirred up a billowing storm and fanned the flames quick | pe 'y to a parked C-54 oth from the sea and from the port and a small, He would have us accept the that now was the time to ask for defense forces. This island, with an area of 39,758 square miles and a population of only 140,000, has nc Army, Navy, Coast Guard or Air Force of its own. B Princess Louise from Vancouver cheduled to arrive Tuesday after- * The Washmg for | conorevenme. Denali scheduled Merry Go Boune seattle Frid.xy:— il ere. Residents from all over the Ter- ritory will gather here to listen to his address. Reeve Aleutian Airways today announced that a chartered DC-3 $1.82%2 per hour has been increased | tion of about 12,000 and Chinameca the allowable 10 per cent, effective | of about 17.000. 1 of April 1. A petition is being Th . PR o T e' strong quakes, which began orwarded to the Wage Stabilization | ;¢ o p.m. yesterday, destroyed many Board for $2.25 an hour, plus five |, A " 2 cents an hour welfare, which if ap- e £1Y public Butigings. Many e e e e e By DREW PEARSON g S R L :Iprnved, is to be retroactive 01 i ruins f;’.;d e h“:'znbee:eb”,r‘; transport, plane would bring @ load] Of the 52 members of parliament. | slane. AE not only in, extensii (Covyright, 1951, 0y Bell Byndicate. Inc J . April 1. ruins. The exact number off o0 gionitaries from the Anchorage |43 supported the government in its| wMinutes before, the bomber cau with Red China, but i WEATHER REPORT L dead is niot yet known, but author-| .0, T o Dlanes will bring resi- | request. The nine Communist mem- | ed windows to rattle and walls 1§ .y all-out war with the Soviet Un pe ASHINGTON, — Of the lon’ | | Temperature for 24-Hour Period @ ith the excer vy an, | ities estimated about 200 were bUr-| gente grom many scattered parts of | bers of parliament were not con-|yibrate by roaring not over 400 fect | on " the defense secretary said, ] list of American military hero || enaing 6:20 o'clock this morning e | Ul ports were open and handling |jed in the debris. ihe Territe Ay s he citys ol since 1776, the two whose lives are | , 1 Juneau — Maximum, ¢ |fish at 8 o'clock this morning. There | Nearby towns, Neuva Guadalupe, Ty. N Ytoni 13 e sAEt At At- i 1 e GRS 5 wenld haee ol most identical ,are Gen. Dougla: § , 54. minimum, 38. ¢ | were approximately 75,000 pounds of | Santiago de Maria, Usulutan and By hlan;i poiipisrey v 8 Unm.-dl : ; ..Il v e .(vh“ [ MacArthur: and Civil War Gen | 7 NS0 T Afaximum, ¢ | fish-to be handled at the Juneau| Caserios, east of the Lempa river, Al wand S RCERIE ol STOCK OUC!AHOHS o this ese thetgh the efiesia i | B. McClellan. Both had famou | & o oo o 1 Cold Storage plant here. Ketchikan | also sufféred great damage. IHREE IRAI“ME“ States has ass i roonan- ich action might expose vesiern fathers, both ranked high in their § & ™' pg R E'c A s T ¢ |is to be operating by tomorrow. The Red Cross dispatched docto: ilb‘]“;le;' fi:;“{;f;':;nd";fl,iw. NEW YORK, < o i wzulm muu)kl u:l \‘:4 ’n:x: n'l‘:"\u:)u i i S B ) oviet troops e middle a classes at West Point, both Wer(j ., noiy fair tonight with ¢ and medicine to the scene and pub- K A O e | st s 't datks JuoAa A viet troopa' ps official observers of Russian Wal* J, joyest temperature near 42 ¢ FROM PORTLAND lic works ministry workmen started :l:ys ago. stock today 1s 2 merican gl e i URARE L both rowed with the President o % ¥ 1 > s ay Is 2% i MacA ad arg ¥ s 1+ degrees. Considerable cloud- ¢ clearing blocked roads. als 3 g and Tel £ 5 e i the United States and both hac o (RS BN o ecday « | William Crooks and Robert John-| Al the towns are situated in the NEAR VA“(OUVER }: .,‘:,Vas:,‘xf;‘fincodmerme::l (:,{fmxic”. ,l\l:g:;,?;:'_;g e ol ’[‘;"Pr'il;:e ;;::It (t)r[x :Tl“\L‘%:)l!(x‘bl(N ‘:o the. president pay them the hono § = (o 5 o son of Portland, Oregon, are in ighbo! d Mi 1 vol- sal e 8 9, AIEW sthe n S h a- . vith highest temperature ¢ neighborhood of San Miguel vol " 1 fall under Adm. Wil- | General Electric %, General Mo But he said that if they were " of making long trips to confer witl § | o | Juneau for a few days conferring |cano, but it did not erupt. The quake land’s defense s ’ X il 2 e ndegt | Jons. Tl e SRR SOSK & 3 them near the field of battle. nesy 40 otpteel N o |with FHA director Clinton C. Sta- | was attributed to D reun a.| VANCOUVER, B.C,, May 7 —#—|liam Fechteler as commander if)ors 83%, Goodyeqr T4, Kennecot | 101, the United States should “go it General McClellan, & Democrat | ' PEECIPLITATION &)o'\ oging a housing project | siuity of the voleno, however Three rallwaymen were killed yes-{chief of the Atiantic fleet and chiet 1774, Libby, McNeill and Libby 9% | jjone differed with homely and none-too- | & Trash 3 Tonss OIS, “mr:o ot : n Anchorage. They are at the Bar- W ST YolRuI anayec. terday when the engine and 14 cars{of the north ocean region of thelNorthern Pacific 37%, Stands M") MacArthur confended, too, that f popular Abraham Lincoln of Ilin- | g::lyo:’w‘[’;’“e;‘“:;“;;‘zhzzf o [anof Hotel. Death Toll 1,000 of a Canadian Pacific railway] Atlantic Alliance. of California 9%, ‘r-“x“4 i “,)(.}'”'f he moves he advocated would not ois, a Republican. General Mac- b Julyl Béfio 1nches‘ . —~ SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador,| freight train left the rails about 100 Gen. McGaw, the leader of the|tury llfox 21, U. 8. Le‘ :";06 nvolve any greater risk of Russian Arthur’s dispute is with an unpop- | | A‘t";e_ { g FROM SEWARD May 7 —#— The government late| rhiles northeast of here. initial force, served as artillery com- | §2.80.1, Canadian ‘}‘(:r\.n{\m) 100" | sniry into war than bad the first ular Democratic President from Pt o 1‘;‘° °S}; o] Mr. and Mrs R. J. Smith and | today said that yesterday's earth-| R. J. Purdie, 55, the engineer, mander of the 63rd infantry di-l Sales today were 153000 b american troops intervention in Missouri. » Since May 1 — .16 inches; ‘o children from Seward are stay- | quake in Jucuapa took a toll of ap- | Vernon G. Mobley, 25, the fireman, | vision in Europe during World War | Averages today were as fol '-\]? Cares e e L Since July 1 — 30.43 inches. @ |ing' gt tne Hotel Juneau. Smith ‘s ' proximately 100 lives. Jucuapa is| and Henry Vickers, 55 @ trainman, | II. Later he was with the 11th air- | Industrials 26128, xalls §447, util T o s b e > ® ® o o o o o o o o, the Fish and Wildlife Service. | about 90 miles east of San Salvador. | were Killed. borne division in Japan. ties 4237, Continued on Page Sk