The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 15, 1951, Page 1

VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,810 Reds 'Plod Through Mud for New HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1951 U.S. IS NOT READY FOR SHOWDOWN Gen. Bradle_yifvives' Views on Red China, Russia, World War Ill Threat WASHINGTON, May 15 — (B — Gen, Omar N. Bradley testified to- day the United States is not ready for 'a “showdown” with Russia and should not risk world conflict by adopting Gen, Douglas MacArthur's Korean war proposals. Making plain he considers Russia to be this country’s real foe, Brad- ley said MacArthur's prop direct blows at Red China involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time and with the wrong enemy.” .’ Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told senators he knows some critics'are “impatient” with the administration’s plan to fight a limited war in Korea and are calling for a “showdown” with the Soviet Union. Bradley then added: Military Viewpoint “From a purely military viewpoint, this is not desirable. We are not in the best military position to seek a showdown, even if it were' the nation’s desire to forfeit the chances war.” Bradley also said the joint chiefs— top military planners of. the Army, Navy and Air Force — helieve Mac- Arthur’s proposals wauld increase. “the risk of\global war.” L b Qellarel, (o, dhay théy are in v o to assess the risk of general war and to judge of the country’s military resources. Bradley forecast that some critics would say, “Why are the Joint Chiefs of Staff advertising the fact| AMERICAN CUNITY IS | that we are not militarily in a po- sition to have a showdown” with Russia. Capabilities Known “Our capabilities are not unknown to the Communists,” he went on. “They are apt students of military power, and fully realize that al- though we are not prepared to de- liver any ultimatum, we could hurt them badly if they attacked us or our friends. “They also know that with our potential, and the strength of our Allies, in the long run they could not win a war with a United States that is alert, and continuously pre- pared.” Global Strategy Bradley said the administration’s «“global strategy is paying off and I see no reason to let impatience alter it in the Far East” Hhen he de- clared: “Certainly the course of action we are pursuing has avoided a total war which could only bring death and destruction to millions of Amer- icans, both in the United States and on the battlefield.” Bradley said MacArthur’s program —calling for blockading Red China, bomb Manchurian bases and using Chinese Nationalist troops — has (Cuetinued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syadicate, Inc.. 'ASHINGTON. — General Hoyt Vandenberg, the Nation’s No. 1 airman, has sounded a private warning during talks inside the Pentagon building that the worst threat to American cities is not from Europe but Siberia. This is a flat contradiction of General MacArthur’s contention that Russia cannot wage war against the United States from Si- beria. “We have heard quite often that the defense of western Europe is the defense of the United States,” Vandenberg warned. “Now that is true in some phases, but it surely isn’t true of air power, Decause from bases in Siberia, the Russians can cover with present Soviet bombers a much greater area than can be covered today from | western Europe.” Undersecretary of Air John Mc- Cone, speaking to the same private e e e (Continued on Page Four) ' pr—— | for peace by precipitating ‘a togal| g r. a better position than MacArthury That's what Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall is shouting at AP Photographer Bill Smith who was taking one last pieture as the general's WAC driver started away with the automobile door open. Smith ducked in time. Marshall is leaving the Senate oifice build- ing after testifying all day on the probe into the firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. (P Wirephoto. "§Iaie Department Giving DEMANDED Mobilizer Vmso n Takes Rap at Congress-Talks fo Industrialists WASHINGTON, May 15 — (B — Pleading for American unity, Mo- bilization Director Charles E. Wilson today decried the “foolishness like what's been going on up on Capitol Hill, where some of our leading gen- erals are on the pan.” ‘Wilson . told the 1951 Industry- Armed Forces conference that American squabbling over military and foreign policy “must certainly be wonderful music to the ears of the Russians.” Helping Communists He spoke of the possibility that publication of documents revealed in congressional hearings might help the Communist cnemy in decoding secret messages. The mobilization chief said he has reached the conclusion that the na- tion’s mobilization “isn’t going to be " Oui Uid Dope of Alaska To Russia, Cai n Learns WASHINGTON, May 15 — B — Senator Cain (R-Wash) says the State Department has confirmed that it is providing Russia with in- formation on Alaska — but it. isn’t what you'd describe as up-to-date dope. It’s all information and records on the Territory prior to 1867. Cain told a Seattle Post-Intel- ligencer correspondent about it. The senator had asked the State De- partment about a report that Soviet Russia was requesting and getting the information. A State Department official re- plied that the United States is oBli* gated under the convention ‘of 1867, under which Alaska was purchased. The official said the records are micro-film copies of records: of the] Russian-American Company for the period 1802-1867. He said the materials the following papers: Letters received by the governors- general (of ‘Alaska) 1802-67; fetters sent by them; logs of Russian-Amer- ican Co. ships 1853-67; journals of exploring expeditions, 1842-64. Cain told the reporter the last item interested him particularly be- cause “no doubt the Russians ex- plored Alaska rather thoroughly during the more than half century they occupied and exploited it.” STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday. Baranof scheduled to sail from included as long a job as I had thought—if we have some unity in this country.” Attainment of unity, he said might mean ‘“cutting eut some of the foolishness like what’s going on up on Capitel Hill.” Addressing 1,000 industrialists, re- presenting six national associations of military contractors, Wilson said: Music to Russians “What you people are doing isn't music to Russian ears.”. Wilson predicted that the indi- cated speed of rearmament probably will mean increasing business dis- location' in the last half of this year and early next. But the prob- lems should taper off about a year from now, he said. The mobilizer punched his finger at the industry group to emphasize this enjoinder: “Don’t hoard.” # Wilson said it could be “almost fatal” to the munitions effort if in- dustry piles up big idle stocks of searce materials, Seattle Friday. Denali scheduled to arrive from westward Sunday ‘southbound. ® 0 o 0o o 0 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 50; minimum, 44. At Airport — Maximum, 50; minimum, 43. FORECAST Variable cloudiness with some very light showers to- night and Wednesday, Low- est temperature tonight about 44 degrees. Highest Wednesday near 54. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todsy City of Juneau — .12 inches; Since May 1 — 1.20 inches; Since July 1 — 69.25 inches. At Airport — .21 inches; Since May 1 — .74 inches; Since July 1 — 40.01 inches. e o 0 0 0 0. 0 0 0 Fred Jensen of Tacoma is regis- tered at the Gastineau Hotel. BROWN IS INDICTED, TAX CASE Arrainged in Federal Court at Anchorage on Em- bezzlement Charge ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 15— (M— Archie L. Brown, former depu- ty tax collector for the Territoriul Tax Office at Anchorage, was ar- raigned yesterday in Third Distriet Court on a charge of embezzlement. Brown was accused of misappro- priating $4,350 in Territorial funds between March 12 and August 28 of 1948. The charges were contained in an indictment returned by a grand jury Feb. 27. The indictment was kept secret until Brown was arrested and re- turned here for prosecution. A wur- rant was served on him in Atlanta, Ga. He was returned here over the weekend from Seattle in custody of Deputy Erwin Metcalif of Seward. Brown is scheduled to appear in District Court May 21 to enter a plea. His bond, originally $5,000, was reduced Yo $2,500. Brown was deputy tax collector here about three years before re- signing in May of 1949 under fire. Attorney General J. Gerald Williams | claimed at the time Brown admitted borrowing Territorial funds and that| the borrowing resulted in a $550 shortage of accounts. 3 A grand jury vindicated Brown | in Qctober of 1949 after conductin an investigation of alleged lrregu;‘f larities in the tax office. Williams later criticized the grand jury stand. Testifying before the Alaska Senate last March 23, he said the Brown case was an illus- tration of grand jury difficulties with what “I considered an iron- clad case.” Williams said the tax commis- sioner had found what appeared to be an additional shortage of $4,350 | on Brown’s book. The Territory ex- | pects to collect the money from the company that bonded Brown, the attorney general said. U. 5. DOES NOT UNDERSTAND SAYS GENERAL NEW YORK, May 15, — (P— Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway says| Americans do not seem to under- | stand the issue in Korea. In a letter to St. Bartholomew's | Protestant Episcopal Church here, of which he is a member, the Far Eastern Commander wrote: “Would God the American peo- ple might see a full length movie of current events here in their true setting. It would, I think,! make crystal clear the issue for which their sons fight and are con- tent to fight. Yet America seems not to know. Hundreds of thousands ofs poor people, the old, infirm, infants, the sick, fleeing night and day across country, over the ice of frozen streams, in temperature at zero, no shelter at night but that obtained from huddling together and from such of their belongings as are on their backs or ox or small two- wheeled carts, driven to all this by one seemingly overpowering fear, the fear of government by Com-i munists. | “Is not the issue truly whether some day our women, our babies, our sick and our aged are to be| driven forth by Aslatic masters, or| now while yet there’s time, this| America and our allles may ex-| tinguish all petty issues and unite with all they have to destroy the| greatest peril we have ever known."‘ FROM PORTLAND ‘ A. J. McKinney of Portland is‘ at the Baranof Hotel. " | FROM KETCHIKAN } Harold Sherwin of Ketchikan' is| at the Gastineau Hotel. FROM BIG DELTA Lt. Col. and Mrs. D. Woolly of | Big Delta are stopping at the Bai- | anof Hotel. | istration’s request for extension and MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = o fi_ms Probe North of Seoul United Nations tank patrol rolls down the main street of rubble-strewn Uljonbu after a search for enemy forces horth of Seoul on Korea’s western front. genade attack in Uijonbu. P Wirephoto. A similar tank patrol was the object of a Red Ty ‘Offensive BIG BUILDUP OF CHINESE IS REPORTED Large Uniisfi_Communisis Are Forming in Rain- Drenched Sections By Associated Press Rain-drenched Chinese troops plodded south through Centra Korean mud today in their buildup for a new offensive. Spearheads of a growing Red force facing the center of the 100-mile UN line were reported 12 miles south of the 38th Parallel. UN patrols spotted Communists in units of 500 or 600 slogging through the hills east of Kapyong. The U. 8. 8th Army did not indi- (RACKDOWN | ON PROFITS NOW ASKED Johnston SE There Are Six Major Threats to Sound Dollar By FRANK O'BRIEN ‘WASHINGTON, May 15 — (A — Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston asked today for powers to enforce a national crackdown on spiraling profits — ranging from the barn- yard to the union bargaining room and industrial price sheets. He told the Senate Banking com- mittee in prepared testimony there are six major threats to a sound dollar. He laid down a six point pro- gram for flattening the inflation spiral. “Unless we have a stabilized economy, unless we hold inflation in check,” he declared, “we cannot mount the defense effort we need.” Johnston called for removal of one price ceiling — the $10,000 limit on fines which can be assessed against violators of the Defense Production Act. Economic mobilization author- ity stems from this act. Johnston called the $10,000 maximum fine “an invitation to try to get away with 1 bigger plck_n;rg Johnston was called before the committee ih behalf of the admin- broadening of the Production Act. It expires June 30. Farm, industrial and landlord earnings must all be levelled off together, Johnston said, if “we are to have a completely rounded, inte- grated, sensible economical stabiliz- ation program.” The threats to the sound dollar which Johnston outlined include: 1. The expected injection of one billion dollars weekly into the coun- try’s economic bloodstream Wwhen defense spending goes into high gear later this year. 2. “Milk-it-dry” profits, price and wage demands. 3. Rising food prices. He proposed that Congress pro- vide six remedies, including: “Pay-as-we-go” taxation to pump spending money out of circulation. 2. Pay-as-we-go credit policies” to avoid credit which “merely al- lows more people and more busi- nesses to bid for a tightening sup- ply of goods . .. " 3. Increased savings — “income not spent does not put pressure on prices ... " FROM SITKA Clyde C. Franks of Sitka is reg- istered at the Baranof Hotel. KETCHIKAN VISITOR Jack W. Brounty of Ketchikan is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. FROM ELMENDORF R. 8. Thompson of Elmendorf Field is at the Baranof Hotel. LOGAN BACK Hugh A. Logan of Glendale, Cal- |ifornia who has been bear hunting | for several days, is back at the Baranof Hotel. J. 8. Barnett of Seattle is stop- “Apm' at the Baranof Hotel. ® Wirephoto. Faces Fifth Operaiion Little cancer victim Sandra Sue Hund smiles with her remaining eye before going to a hospital for a fifth operation. Doctors say it is a “last chance” effort to save her life. The cancer was discovered early last year as a growth on her right temple. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hundley of San Diego, Calif., parents of the blue-eyed, doll-like child, have asked the public to pray for her. cate how close they were to UN lines. But no fighting was reported from this area. Clashes elsewhere on the rainswept battle line were between groups of 100 or 200. The 8th Army said the Reds east of Kapyong were south of the Puk- han river. This would put them 35 to 40 miles northeast of Seoul and roughly 15 miles northwest of Hong- chon, UN base on the Central front. 24-Hour Warning An Allied officer said well pro- tected UN positions and restless pa- 41 trols probably would insure about 24 hours warning before the Chinese hit in strength. A’ Central front briefing officer said the weather probably would speed up the expected Red offensive about two days, The strike generally is expected next week. “This is their meat,’ one officer commented. “The Chinese can do & lot of moving under these clouds without being seen from the air. { They are undoubtedly taking advan- tage of it.” l Bomb Supply Center B-20s were out Tuesday despite heavy weather. They bombed the Sariwon supply center, above the ‘Western front, by radar. On the Western front 10 Allied soldiers — eight Americans and two Turks — ed to their own lines after being released by Chinese. They were taken prisoner April 25 in the Reds’ first spring offensive. AP Correspondent John Randolph said all told of comparatively good ley, 4, cuddles her doll and WASHINGTON, May 15 — (® — Senator Bridges (R-NH) said today he has asked the House UnAmerican Activities committee to investigate charges that a Communist cell has been set up in the Portsmouth, N. H., Navy yard. A spokesman for Bridges said the charges have been investigated by various Federal agencies since 1947, but so far as he knows none of them has ever made a public report of its findings. He said the inquiries were made by the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion, the Senate Armed Services committee and the Navy Depart- ment. Bridges' request to the House committee was made in response to demands by the New Hampshire and Maine American Legion depart- ments for a new inquiry, STOCK OUGATIONS NEW YORK, May 15 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock foday is 2%, American Can 106%, Afnerican Tel. and Tel. 154%; Anaconda 42, Douglas Aircraft 97%, General Electric 54%, General Mot- ors 50, Goodyear 76'., Kennecott 72%, Standard Oil of California 46%, Twentieth Century Fox 20%, U. S. Steel 43%, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange 94. Sales today were 2,020,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 252.08, rails 80.72, utili- ties 42.35. WANTS QUERY NAVY LOWERS ALLEGEDNAVY CASUALTIES COMMIE CELL IN COLLISION [\ treatment by their captors. They said they were told never again to fight the Chinese, and released. Fighting Washed Out Rain washed out most fighting ‘Tuesday. An 8th Army briefing officer said 1,600 Communists were killed or wounded Monday. The “great debate” in Korea among UN officers centers around the question whether the Reds have mustered enough men and equip- ment to drive the Allied forces into the sea. Some officers believe they have. Others say the Chinese never (Continued on Page Eight) CHINESE IN ACTIONNOW, NORFOLK, Va., May 15 —(P— The Navy today postponed attempts to enter four compartments of the tire-ravaged seaplane tender Val- cour. It revised downward the num- ber of known dead in yesterday's col- lision between the vessel and a col- lier, Atlantic Fleet headquarters an- nounced the following official fig- ures: 1 known dead, 5 missing and presumed dead, and 19 hospitalized. The headquarters announcement said the latest check showed 149 enlisted men accounted for in addi- tion to those on the casualty list. Also accounted for were the 14 of- ficers aboard the Valcour including two hospitalized. It explained that last night’s announcement of 11 known dead was based on “an esti- mate” that nine bodies were in the engine room. It had been planned to send sal- vage experts into the four spaces early today, but it was decided, a spokesman said, to postpone such action until after the <hip had off- loaded her gasoline and ammuni- tion. The ship first will discharge the remaining gasoline of the more than 70,000 gallons aboard when the Val- cour and the S.8. Thomas Tracy collided some five miles east of Cape Henry. A gaping hole in/the bow and evidence of severe fire damage could be seen aboard the Tracy when she docked late yesterday under her own power at Newport News. But there were no serious injuries to crewmen. FRONT LINES By Associated Press Chinese Communist troops were reported tonight to be crossing two rivers on the rainy Central Korean tront around Chunchon in front of strong U. 8. positions. An American officer, however, said flatly that the expected Chi- nese offensive had not begun, a pooled field dispatch reported. The dispatch said unknown num- bers of Chinese Reds crossed the Pukhan river, southwest of Chun- chon and reached high ground just south of the river. Other Communists have crossed the Choyang, northeast of Chun- chun, and moved to the southeast of that ruined eity, where clashes with American froops were reported. The American officer said he did not expect a Chinese offensive to start tonight, but predicted prelim- inary probing attacks at various points in the Chunchon area. Chun- chun is 45 miles northeast of Seoul.