The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1951, Page 1

\ % $ CE,‘O“% < o e (8 b VOL. LXXVIIIL., NO. 11,812 " THE DAILY JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1951 ALASKA EMPIRE 'ALLTHENEWS ALL THE TIME® MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - New Offensive Started By Hordes Of Chinese NEW INFO ONFIRING MacARTHUR Truman Had Considered Acction Year Before Dismissal Taken WASHINGTON, May 17 — (® — President Truman said today he had been considering firing Gen. Doug- las MacArthur off and on for a year before he finally dismissed him. The President told a news confer- ence he made up his mind to oust MacArthur when the Pacific com- mander issued his March 24 call for the Chinese Reds to halt the war. Since Senate hearings began on MacArthur’s dismissal, there has been testimony from administra- tion men that this upset plans President Truman had been work- ing out to propose a cease fire. Mr. Truman told reporters that Secretary of State Acheson had not urged the dismissal as some Repub- licans have contended. He said Acheson actually urged caution at an April 6 meeting when he dis- closed his intention to top ranking advisors. Political Fuss Acheson, the President said, ad- vised caution on the ground it would stir up a political fuss, It did, the President said with a wry grin; he wag right. ‘When saying he had been consid- ering the ouster of MacArthur for a year, Mr. Truman recalled the letter MacArthur wrets te the Yok erang of Foreign Wars. That was last August. The letter took issue with some phases of ad- ministration policy in the Far East. President. Truman ordered MacAr- thur to withdraw it and the general did. However, the letter had been given to newspapers in advance and the recall was too late to stop widespread publication. For the first time, the President spoke with little hesitation at his[ ot 0 B T he ob in | weekly news conference about some of the events leading up to the dis- missal of MacArthur. He said that at the April 6 meet- ing at the White House, he told his wmssociates the country needed a new general in the Far East. FERRY CHANGED INTO FLOATING CANNERY, ALASKA! SEATTLE, May 17, —®— The ferry Lincoln, which was on the Seattle-Vashon Island run until' a few ‘months ago, definitely will be- come a floating cannery in Alaska, the buyer said today. S. Einstoss, pho purchased the boat from the state toll bridge au- thority for $10,000, provided an in- spection in dry dock showed it to be satisfactory, said he had accep- ted her. It will leave for Ketchikan in about a month. U.8.G.S. MEN HERE F. G. Fisher and H. W. Bell of the U. S. Geological Survey from Denver are at the Gastineau Hotel. The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc. (Ed. Note—This is the second column by Drew Pearson on Greek shipping.) ASHINGTON. — The Ameri- can public has shown its ability to take the bad news along with the good and therefore has a right to know about our worst disaster of the Korean war. So far the facts have not been released atthe Pent- agon. Last month, however, 40 B-29 Superfortresses, escorted by jet fighters, bombed the International bridge connecting Sinweju, North Korea, with Antung, Manchuria. The B-29s were hugging so close to the Manchurian -border that one side was exposed and approxi- mately 100 Russian Mig-15 jet (Continued on Page !;‘our) An Assist for the General N Chairman Richard Russell (D.-Ga.) straightens the necktic of Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, before the start in Washington of the military leader’s testimony at a hearing into the firing of. General MacArthur by the combined Armed Services and Foreign Relations commit- { ! i 1 | By Associated Press Nearly 900 Western Union em- ! ployes quit work in the San Fran- cisco Bay: Arca today to protest the i training of supervisory personnel in certain jobs. ! In the East, some 800 employes | Philadelphia and Cincinnati, crip- | pling service in eight states. A Western Union spokesman at San Francisco said it was a “work stoppage, not a strike:” Only certain government, press and emergency messages were re- ported being handled on schedule. Other messages were accepted sub- ject to delay. G The AFL-Commercial Telegraph- ers Union said the workers were idle in a protest against supervis- ory personnel doing work assigned ito union members in the Western | Union-CTU contract. A company spokesman at Phil- adelphia replied that it has been Western Union policy to train and re-train its executive and super- visory personnel from time to time to keep them abreast of the latest developments i operations. This was being done when the union members walked «off the job, he added. 5 In New York, Western Union said in mid-day it will halt a supervis- ory training program in an effort to end the walkouts and meet un- ion objections. | PAN AM BOYS GO FISHING, FLYING Pan American World Airways representatives here for a sales conference this week, knocked off to go fishing on the Hyak today to sample some of the wares they'll be selling. This afternoon, a trip by Alaska Coastal Airways was planned for over the Juneau Icecap and a stop at Taku Lodge for cock- tails before returning to Juneau. Tomorrow , the party will visit Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell and wind up at Ketchikan where they will be guests of Bob Ellis at a dinner. Last evening the visiting and lo- cal Pan American employees were guests of the Baranof Hotel at followed by a [ {a cocktail party duck-and-wild-rice dinner. FOWLER MARTIN HERE Fowler Martin of the Pacific Na- tional Bank of Seattle is in Juneau on his annual spring trip. He is at the Baranot Hotel. | | tees. Sen, William, Knowland (R.-Calif.) is at center. P Wirephoto. 900 WORKERS PRODUCERS WALK OUT IN. OF STEEL WUPROTEST MUST CUT/OUT, Larger Share of Output Is Ordered Info Mounting Defense Demands WASHINGTON, May 17 — (# The government today ordered stee! to set aside sharply increased q tities of steel products for July delivery on defense orders, In telegrams, the National Pro- duction Authority notified the iron and ‘steel producers that “an even larger share” of their output may be reserved for priority buyers in Au- gust to meet mounting defense de- mands. The action apparently is part of a move to make deeper cuts in civilian of steel and other strategic metals later this summer. Plans for that cutback will be unfolded to auto makers and other producers in 57 industries at a meeting here tomor- row. NPA said today’s order states that more than half of all blooms, slabs and billets, reinforcing bars, hot rolled sheets, wire loop, and other standard items must be reserved for defense. use The set-asides range up to 75 per cent of carbon steel plate, 68 per cent of heavy structural steel shapes and steel piling, 80 per cent of high grade electrical sheets and straps, and 95 per cent of wheels and axles. STEEL CUT ANNOUNCED WASHINGTON, May 17 — ® — The government announces that steel supplies for autos and other consumer “hard goods” will be cut about one-third below pre-Korea levels on July 1. This will mean reductions rang- ing from 10 to 15 per cent below present civilian levels. Copper and aluminum will be somewhat tighter than steel, Edwin T. ' Gibson, acting defense produc- tion .administrator, said. Gibson told a news conference that about 2,000,000 tons of steel will be available for refrigerators, pas- senger cars, washing machines and other household appliances in the July-August-September quarter, as against 3,000,000 tons on the average before the outbreak of fighting. STEAMER MOVEMERTS Princess Louise from Vaneouver due to arrive Saturday afternoon or evening. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday. Denali scheduled to arrive from westward Sunday southbound. | | | JOB SEEKERS WARNED STAY ALASKA OLYMPIA, Wash,, May 17 —(®— The State Employment Security Department warned job seekers to- day against going to Alaska to look for work. J. H. Robertson, Employment Se- curity commissioner, said the Terri- tory is now flooded with workers iooking for jobs. He said Alaska manpower offic- als have notified him that the flood of migrants has presented serious housing problems, particularly in Anchorage. The Alaska officials said there were more -than enough workers now in the Territory to fill all la- bor needs at- least through, June, Robertson added. Robertson urged all persons in- terested in working in Alaska to contact any; local’Employment Se- Deppftmiept office before at- tempting the trip. P-TA FAREWELL MEETING NEXT MONDAY NIGHT Farewells and goodbyes will be said to members of the Juneau Public School faculty at the final meeting of the Parent-Teacher As- sociation Monday. The group meets at 8 p.m. in the grade school audi- torjum. Farewells will be said to a number of the local staff who have resigned their positions. This group includes Dr. James C. Ryan, Commissioner of Education, who is resigning from his position July 1. Goodbyes and happy holidays will be said to the teachers who are leaving town on vacations. The music for the evening will be by the Junior band directed by Lyle Manson. Two numbers will be sung by the eighth grade mixed chorus, with Miss Marjorie Iverson in charge. The officers for the coming year will be installed” at this meeting. A committee of eighth grade mothers will serve refreshments at the close. ’ COLONEL NOYES RETURNING SUNDAY Col. John R. Noyes, commissioner in the Alaska Road Cpmmission, is returning to Juneau Sunday, it is announced by officials of the Ju- neau office. He has been in Washington, D. C., attending Senate budget hear- ings. BRADLEY NOT REQUIRED TO TESTIFY, MAC Senafe In;(;iigaiors Up- hold Refusal Testify on Private Talks, Truman WASHINGTON, May 17 — B — Senate investigators upheld today the refusal of Gen. Omar N. Brad- ley to testify about President Tru- man's private talks with his ad- visers on firing Gen, MacArthur. Senator McMahon (D-Conn) said the vote was 18 to 8. The action sustained a decision by Senator Russell (D-Ga), chairman of the joint Armed Services and Foreign Relations committee, that Bradley had a right to keep silent on the talks, Bradley declined on Tuesday to tell the committees , in response to questions ‘by Sen. Wiley (R-Wis), what was said at a White House conference April 6 which led to the President’s dismissal of MacArthur as Pacific commander on April 11. A vote to overturn Russell's rul- ing could have led to a formal demand that Bradley answer the questions or face possible charges of ‘contempt of Congress. For two days, the Senate Mac- Arthur mqulry has been stymied by the argument over what attitude should be taken toward the refusal by Bradley, chairman of the Joint, Chiefs of Staff, to tell who said what to whom at the April 6 White House meeting. “ Sharp words and charges of*play- ing politics came into the debate, By and large, the argament of those . upholding Russell’s decision was that the constitution’s division of powers between Congress and the Executive Department denied to Congress the right to demand *‘con- fidential information” from the President. % The decision cleared the way for the committee to go back to actual hearings. There had been talk of a session Friday with either Admiral O. Sherman or Gen. Hoyt Vanden- berg as the witness. They are the Chiefs of Staff members for the Navy and Air Force, respectively. But Russell announced he had de- cided not to have another hearing | session until Monday when Bradley will return to the stand. Big Catch Of Halibut, B. (. Coast VANCOUVER, B. C., May 17 —® | —Capt. 8ig Trelvik demoted himself to deckhand and made it pay off today. A herring fisherman for years, Capt. Trelvik knew nothing about halibut, But he learned the hard way—working on deck with numb fingers at the bait tanks. He arrived back in port yesterday on his 62-foot diesel seiner Western Monarch with a catch of 80,000 pounds of halibut, biggest catch ever taken off the British Columbia coast by a single boat. An old friend, Capt. Ostein Han- sen, was at the helm of the seiner during the 11-day fishing trip. Capt. Hansen is a veteran halibut skipper. | Capt. Trelvik and his eight-man | crew brought home enough fish wi fill three railroad cars. GAMES TODAY Final scores of baseball games played this afternoon in the major leagues are as follows: NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 12, New York 7. Chicago 7, Brooklyn 0. Cincinnati 6, Boston 5. One night game. AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago at Boston, cold. Washington 11, Detroit 6. New York 1, Cleveland 0. One night game, eecececcsscsccse®ccoe Claire Heen (center), 18-year-old P Wirephoto. » Miss Hawaii of 1951 Q%‘x?l.'@ & el s Hawalian girl of Irish, Hawaiian AT and Chinees descent, poses with her runners-up in Honolulu after she won the right to represent Hawaii at the Atlantic City Miss America contest. Second was Gloria Kanemura (right) Japanese, English, German and Scotch blood. Blonde Joan Scott (left), a Caucasian blend of English, Irish and French, was third, who has ALASKA COURTS UPHELD Anti - Trust Indictments in Steamship and Liquor (ases Sustained SEATTLE, May 17 — (® — The | right of the U. 8, District Court in Alaska to file anti-trust indictments against the Alaska Steamship Co and six wholesale liquor dealers was upheld yesterday in Federal Cour here. Federal Judge Dal M. Lemmon denied the defendants’ motions tc dismiss the suits because the Alasks court lacked jurisdiction, Judge Lemmon did not cite evi- | dence in the short opinion with which he upheld the Alaskan in- dictments returned last June against the steamship company, five liquor wholesalers with Seattle headquart- ers and one with Anchorage main offices. Qther motlons are pending or the cases and trials may not be held for some time. The suit against the Alaska Steamship Co. accuses it of con- trolling 90 per cent of the water transport between Alaska and the States and of using that control tc force shippers to give the company their exclusive business. K and L Distributors, Inc., Odonf Co., Lang and Co., Meherin-Mertel Distributors, Inc., West Coast Dis= tributors, Inc., and the Anchoragé Cold Stgrage Co. are charged with fixing prices on 10 million dollars worth of alcoholic beverages they wholesale annually in Alaska, WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 48; minimum, 43. At Airport — Maximum, 50; minimum, 42. FORECAST Mostly cloudy with inter- mittent light rain tonight and Friday. Lowest temper- ature tonight about 43. deg. Highest tomorrow about 52. PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — 45 inches Since May 1 — 1.80 inches; Since July 1 — 69.85 inches. At Alrport — .29 inches; Since May 1 — 1.19 inches; | Since July 1 — 4046 inches. © 0 9 9 0 9 0 0 000 8000000000000 00000 000000 PRESIDENT " LASHES OUT ATSENATOR Doesn’t Mention Taft by Name But Attacks His Korean Viewpoint WASHINGTON, May 17 — (B — President Truman lashed out at Republican Senator Taft of Ohio to- day for seeking, as the President put it, to have this country “go for an all-out war in China 'all by our- selves.” 4 Mr. Truman virtually discarded a written speech prepared for the Na- tional conference on - Citizenship. He told his audience that one week of all-out war would cost this coun- try “10 to 20 times” what it is cost- ing to rearm and contain the fight- ing in Korea. A “We must have friends in this troubled yorld,” the President ex- temporized. “Some senators and some other people would have us 5o it alone.” Indirect Reference This was an indirect reference to testimony by Gen. Douglag MacAr- thur, whom he ousted from the Far Eastern commands last month. Mr. Truman, appealing for strengthened price and rent con- trol legislation, said there was no question that Congress will vote a two-year extension of controls ex- piring June 30. He said the decision he and Con- gress will make on this, on defense rearming and on foreign aid “ought to be above petty politics, because the welfare of the country -depends on them.” Mr. Truman was greeted with standing applause as he entered the Presidential room of the Hotel Stat- ler with Mrs. Truman. Makes Plea He pleaded for consumers to put pressure on Congress for strong price and rent controls and for higher taxes. “Never was there a time when the right decisions were more necessary than at this time,” he said. Even in departing from his text, the President did not refer to Sen- ator Taft by name. In his prepared speech Mr. Truman hung an “in- vitation-to-war” tag on the Ohio senator’s proposal to reduce the Armed Forces’ manpower goal by 500,000 men. FWS MAN HERE Mr. and Mrs. Paul Adams are registered at the Hotel Juneau. He is with the PFish and Wildlife Ser- vice, BATTLE ABLAZE Waves of C—Emunists At- tack on Wide Front- UN Defenses Hold By Associated Press Main United Nations defenses held fast today against the onslaught of waves of attacking Chinese Com- munists on the East-Central Korean front, Chinese troops streamed through a gap torn In South Korean lines south of Inje, but Allied forces rush- ed up to plug the hole by night-fall. Hordes of Chinese stormed U. 8. positions on the Central front but came off second best in many a hill- top action, Every time the Ameri- cans lost ground they counterat- tacked and regained it. The Chinese threw in 96,000 men in the 25-mile length of the East Central sector that was the hottest in today's fighting. The new Chinese drive had all the earmarks of a fullscale offensive. Purpose of Drive AP Correspondent Nate Polow- etzky said there were three possible reasons why the Reds began their attack in the mountainous East: 1. It was a diversionary attack to hide their main purpose—a blow at Seoul. 2. Or it was the beginning of & chain reaction that would explode all the way across the peninsula in the biggest Communist push yet. 3. Or it was intended merely to drive UN forces out of North Korea on the east coast, the only place where they have a toehold. Battle Lines Ablaze Field dispatches said the battle lines were ablaze all the way from the east coast to Kapyong, near the center of the peninsula. South Kor- eans in the east fell back swiftly, then closed ranks for a more de- termined stand. The heaviest blow was in the Inje- Chunchon area where the Chinese were using six divisions numbering about 50,000 men. AP Photographer Ed Johnson re- ported a reinforced Chinese Com- munist regiment was cut to pleces when it attacked U. S. forces high in the mountains south of Chon- chon. The battle, 45 miles east of Seoul, lasted three and a half hours. The Chinese withdrew leaving 100 dead. CLOSURE DEADLINE FOR HALIBUTERS IN TWO AREAS, MAY 28 SEATTLE, May 17 —(®— The In- ternational Fisheries Commission announced a closure deadline today for halibut fishing in the waters from Cape co, Ore., to Cape Spencer, Alaska. 1t is effective at midnight, May 28. It applies to areas 2-A and 1-B. In making the announcement, the commission said the catch limit of 25,500,000 pounds for ared 2-A Is ex- pected to be reached by the dead- line. Area 1-B closes automatically with 2-A. It will be the shortest season on record for the coastal region. Fishing started May 1. A commission spokes- man said the fishing fleet has been |larger and the fishing good thii season. STOCK QUGZATIONS NEW YORK, May 17 — Closing quotation of American Can today is 109':, American Tel. and Tel. 155, Anaconda 42%, General Electric 537, General Motors 51, Goodyear 81'., Kennecott 74, Libby, McNeill and Libby 9, Northern Pacific 38% standard Oil of California 47'%, Twentieth OCentury Fox 19%, U. S. Steel 43%, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange 94.06%. Sales today were 1,370,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 254.57, rails 81.66, utili- ties 4241, FROM EXCURSION INLET Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Syre of Ex- cursion Inlet are at the Baranof Hotel.