The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 22, 1951, Page 1

L) B : g .-"‘:,?-‘ d‘o“ a 4 - 2 }f@x\‘e . VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,816 Allies Fighting to Stem Red Sweep 1 llusionary Theories Are Used for Alaska Statehood Declares Minority Report| T0 ALASKA * | stated the report, “aside from mil- By Alice Frein Johnson WASHINGTON, May 17, — (By itary and naval personnel, between Air Mail)—Arguments for granting|sg000 and 35,000 are natives who Alaska statehood are based on “ten-| 5re non-producing and who there- uous and illusionary theories”| fore congribute little revenue to which will not stand examination,| yne Territorial Government, so that five members of the Senate Inter-|ihe effect would be to increase the ior and Insular Affairs Committee oy phurden on .that segment of the stated in the minority report °“‘pupulatmn which does produce.” the statehood bill. | The report, issued today, was signed by Senators Hugh Butler,| Nebraska; Arthur VeWatkins, Utah, | and George W. Malone, Nevada, all Republicans, and Russell B. Long, Louisiana, and George A. Smath-| ers, Florida, Demacrats. | “The proposal of statehood is a| chimera, advanced not as a means for speeding the Territory’s devel-| g opment, nor increasing its popula- | tion, nor placing it on a sound ec- onomic footing as a member of the Federal Union,” the report stated. Because Alaska currently is suf- fering from grave economic ills, the bill, which is not an economic measure, will not solve any of the Territory’s fundamental problems, according to the minority’s opin-| ion. Alaska cannot afford statehood | at the present time, said the mi- nority, which is not a matter for| criticism of Territorial resident.s,i but, nevertheless remains “a cold hard fact.” “Alaskans cannot be held respon- sible for a situation which has as its inherent qualities an almost total lack of basic industries, stag- gering wage scales, long freight| hauls for all commodities, and the cloud of Indian claims against Ter- ritorjal lands as a further deters| rent to industrial development,”| the report stated. “Federal spending in Alaska, in- cluding the multi-million dollar | projects for war and defense, is at! a peak. Aside from the salmon in-| dustry, which is declining, federal | spending constitutes the Terri- tory’s main industry,” continued | tie report. | “When this bubble bursts, Alas- kans will be faced with extreme economic hardship. The population must decline without industries to | replace program. Beyond the conversation of the bureaucrats, there are no new industries in immediate pros- pect now. There have been none gdded to the Territorial economy in the past year, despite the loud optimism expressed by the state- hood proponents before the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs last April. Agriculture Declines | I “Agriculture itself, the basic in-| dustry, has actually declined, not| increased, during the past decade. Ten years ago there were 623 farms (including fur farms) in the entire Territory; now, there are exactly 525. Either figure is far less than the number of farms in the aver- age county in the 48 states. Acreage of land under cultivation likewise decreased. “This will mean that money will be increasingly scarce for those who | remain in Alaska. Theirs will be| the job of continuing to support the expensive Territorial Govern- ment that has been allowed to grow during the lush years of federal spending for defense. The resultant peril of financial chaos and govern- mental bankruptcy would be multi~ plied many times over by thrust- ing statehood om the Territory at the present time, with the added burden of supporting the new state government now, and later when| the galden torrent of federal dol- lars has ended.” The report pointed out that Al- aska now has almost every kind of a tax to be found anywhere else in the country, and, with new taxes enacted by the last Territorial Leg- islature, it is estimated each man, woman, and child in Alaska will be taxed about $126 — a figure| higher than that of any state. Since | statehood is expected to double the | cost of government for residents of | Alaska, approximately $10,000,000 | would be added to their annual tax |'from the national capital where | children; bill, | “Is this a proper burden with which to saddle Alaskans so that | a handful of ambitious politicians | may realize their dreams of becom- | ing senators, members of the House | of Representatives, judges and oth_‘ er officials of the proposed new state?” asked the minority. | “Out of the 108,000 inhabi(r»nt.S,”i | detail the government building | j The five senators who signed the report concluded that “to grant statehood at this time would be to fail utterly in ,our obligation to guard the welfare of those who have ventured to the Territory to make their homes and who are striving bravely to lead normal lives there in the face of a harsh combination of climatic and geo- hical handicaps.” Failure of Alaska to develop more rapidly is attributed by the minority report to a “gigantic superstructure of stifling regula- tions and restrictions upon the use of its resources by various bureaus ) of the Federal Government.” “The nature of these restrictions and their paralyzing effects upon Alaskan progress were discussed in in the minority views in Senate Report 1929 on the state- hood legislation which was before the 8lst Congress. The present bill has been amended to some extent to meet some of the objections to H. R. 331, the measure which was before the Senate last year, but it has not been changed in such a way 2s to solve the basic problems whiclr were nob voied in the earlier seport.” Cozreetive, Measures Accordir.z t the signers of’ the minority repert, “Congress best can a b, undertaking a thor- tiry .19 the many econ- omic probiems, axd cestrictive pol- icies now hampering the Territory, | and by adopting corrective meas- ures based on logic and reason.” Such a move would be, according to the senators, “ a departure from the emotional and' highly colored! approach to this matter which has marked all previous attempts to force the bill through the Congress. It would also be an act of simple stice and common sense toward these United States citizens who are the most concerned, namely, the Alaskans themselves.” Changes accepted as amendments to statehood legislation in virtual- ly every case came after the need for them was pointed out by the ovponents of immediate statehood, tne minority peinted out. |+ “hose who found flaws in the proposed measures and had the temerity to say so were subjected to sharp criticism by the propon- ents, being denounced as obstruc- | tionists and worse,” stated the re- port, which continues: “In a number of cases, public hearings were grudgingly allowed. Authors and supporters of the bills claimed them to be perfect and in- veighed against any delays in their passage, even where necessary to carry out the most ordinary demo- cratic processes of government. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME® Y ALASKA EMPIRE —_— JUNEAU, A LASKA, TU ESDAY, MAY 22, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TRUMAN IS NOT (OMING WASHINGTON, May 22 — ® — The White House said today that President Truman has no plans to visit Alaska or to travel abroad this summer, Presidential Secretary Joseph Short, asked about a published re- port that the President will visit Detroit in July, then go to the West Coast and Alaska in early August, said: “I never heard of any of it.” Short also was asked about a radio broadcast Sunday night that the President planned a trip to France this year. “I never heard of it, either,” he told newsmen. STILL HOPE FOR PEACE IN KOREAN WAR If Present Offensive Brok- en, Negotiations Pos- sible, SaysBradley WASHINGTON, May 22 — (P — Gen. Omar Bradley. said today that U. S. military high command hopes a Korealinegce car be nisatiarial 1f 'UN troops “bump off” the present Communist offensive. Testifying at Senate hearings, Bradley said that military men had hoped in March that some peace move could be made. He added: “We still hope that we will be in a position to again propose some- thing through the United Nations which would end up in negotiations and cessation of hostilities.” That Ultimatum Bradley said that the March truce effort had to be abandoned when Gen. MacArthur served what Secre- tary of Defense Marshall described as an “ultimatum” on the Chinese commander in the field. This was a MacArthur proposal for a cease-fire which carried also an implication the war might be widened if the Chinese commander did not accept it. President Truman has said he made up his mind to dismiss Mac- Arthur from the Far Eastern com- mands because of this move. Spring -Offeasive Bradley made it plain that Korean strategy has been keyed for weeks now to the nope peace negotiations might follow if the Communists’ spring offensive was met and broken. Bradley told senators that as early as February this possibility was discussed by the military Joint Chiefs of Staff. He related: “At that time we were reasonably sure a new attack would come some- Yet, when @he hearings were held | ;0 in the spring, and if you can and the failures of the bills were £ it i pointed out, the proponents has- | PUP that off, 88 18 HEKe, Vo atiate tened to adopt the suggested a much better DR ERIHD SHELAIS pt the suggested am-} .5 you would be if you couldn’t endments.” i ” Also stressed were the facts thag|SOPtain it- nearly three years have passed since any hearings on statehood have D SEMBARK been held in Alaska; nearly five 26 I years have passed since the people of the Territory have had a chance FROM BARA“OF to express themselves on statehood | at the polls; and that no public T hearings have been held on the bill] Twenty six passengers arrived on now before the Senate. the Baranof Tuesday morning. The “The people of Alaska, as a|ship is scheduled to sail for the whole, should be permitted to ex-|westward at 4 this afternoon. Mas- press themselves on whether they |ter of theship is Capt. J. Ramsauer want statehood under the terms of |With J. Vogler, chief purser. this bill” sald the minority. “As| Disembarking from Seattle: Ev- the discussion of this question has|elyn F. Adams, Mrs. John Apland, proceeded, more and more people|Miss Beverly Beanland, Richard in the Territory have come to real- | M. Beck, Mrs. Lenora Curry, Miss ize the terrific financial burdens|Betty French, Arthur A. Johnson, that the measure automatically |Sr» Dolores Johnson, Arthur A. would Impose on them. There is no |Johnson, Jr. 3 procedent for forcing them to re-| Lt Harry M. Kelsey, Mr. and maln mute, thousands of miles|Mrs. W. S. Klockenteger and two Robert W. Paul, Miss this legislation is being considered, | Frances Reichmuth, Mrs. E. N. while a handful of political oppor-{Said and two children; James C. tunists appear before congressional|Sanders, Miss Mabel Setterstrom, committees in support of a legisla- | Louis R. Wagner, Miss Ida Wick- tive step which will benefit them,|Strom, Mr. and Mrs. Doug Shep- and them alone.” *|pard and child. Ruinous Dept. Int. o Constant references to the 1946| Mabel Setterstrom of Butte, Mon- —— | tana is stopping at the Gastineau !Hmel. (Continued on Page Two) \ 2 US. SHIPS HIT, SHORE WASHINGTON, May 22 — ¥ The Battleship New Jersey and Destroyer Brinkley Bass have hit by Communist shore fire | Korea with the loss of two dead 12 wounded. The Navy, in reporting this today, said the New Jersey was hit yes: terday by a shell which landed fon its No. 1 16-inch gun turret. The Brinkley Bass was hit Sunday. R Both ships were at anchor while bombarding the Communist-hgld port of Wonsan on the East Coast of Korea when the enemy batter- ies opened up. A Navy spokesman said the vessels quickly slipped their anchors and steamed out of range. 3 One man aboard the New Jersey wounded slightly. One man on the Brinkley Bass also was fatally wounded. Nine others were wounded. One of the wounded was reported critically hurt, ome seriously wounded and the other seven slightly wounded. Names of the vacualties will be announced after their next of kin have been notified. 4 The New Jersey recently replaced the Battleship Missouri as the larg~ est unit of the U. S. Navy’s bom= bardment force on the East Coast of Korea. The Missouri is now at Norfolk, Va. "DAMNED . . b1 LIE" SAYS SEN. WILEY WASHINGTON, May 22 — (A — Senator Wiley (R-Wis) denounced he and other Republicans are out to “get” Secretary of State Acheson in the MacArthur inquiry. | Wiley's outburst came when the | Senate Armed Services and Foreign | Relations committees met to con- | tinue hearings on the ouster of Gen. MacArthur. Wiley told his colleagues there had been “inspired newspaper re- ports” thatehe and other Republi- cans were conniving on “a strategy of getting some administration wit- ness.” “I say that is a damned lie,” he declared. Although Wiley did not name Acheson, the reports had been con- | nected with Republican attacks on the secretary of state. & NURSERY CLOSES The AWVS cooperative nursery closed last Friday and will remain closed until fall, Mrs. George Rog- ers, chairman, announced today. STEAMER MOVEMENTS + Baranof from Seattle in port and scheduled to sail late this afternoon for the westward. Denali scheduled to sail Seattle Friday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 p.m. Saturday. from e 0o 000000 0 WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Perlod ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 52; minimum, 40. At Airport — Maximum, 54; minimum, 41. FORECAST Mostly cloudy with light rain and southeasterly winds as high as 25 miles per hour tonight and Wednes- day. Lowest temperature to- night near 42 degrees. High- est Wednesday near 50 deg. PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — .01 inches Since May 1 — 3.28 inches Since July 1 — 7133 inches. At Airport — .12 inches; Since May 1 — 193 inches; Since July 1 — 4120 inches. ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 LR N ) ©e0ce0ce®eccsccscsoo e FIRE, KOREA. was killed and three others weve | as a “damned lie” today reports that ! rescue him. Their dog Blackie is at right. Garry E. Parde, ‘19, San of injuries suffered in the head-on accident. (7 Wirephoto. Drowning Tragedy Mrs. James Gorman watches firemen and policemen make a vain cffort to revive her two sons, Denith, 8, and James, 7, after murky waters of flood control ditch in San Bernardine, Calif., had closed over them. The older boy had fallen from raft (in background) and James plunged into water in effort to Bernardino reporter-photographer for the Los Angeles Mirror who made this dramatic picture (above) was returning home after deliver- ing the picture to the Mirror when his car collided with a truck. He died in a hospital at Fontana, Calif,, Commands ""Roughnecks” Maj. Gen. Clark Ruffner (right) is the commander of the U. S. Second Division which caught the brunt of the current Communist offensive in Korea. The full story of the latest performance of “Ruff- ner’s Roughnecks” has not yet been disclosed, but superior officers have commended the division for its “superb performance” and “magnificent” stand against overwhelming odds. Here Maj. Gen. Ruffner is shown with Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway in Korea when the latter was commander of the U. S. Eighth Army. (P Wirephoto. and master of the Fisheries Patrol Boat Teal in Alaska. He retired as ISTATEHOOD lintends to defend distant areas of MEMBER OF JUNEAU ELKS DIES IN SEATILE SEATTLE, May 22 —P— Elks funeral service tor Capt. Roy Lee Cole, 72, retired Seattle Port Cap- tain for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, will be held here tomorrow. Captain Cole died Sunday at his home. He had lived in Seattle for 3 years. He had been agent in charge of the Cook Inlet district of Alaska STOCK OUGATIONS NEW YORK, May 22 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 108%, American Tel. and Tel. 153 Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircrafl 95%, General Electric 53'%, Generai Motors 49%, Goodyear 80% , Kenne- cott 73 Libby, McNeill and Libby 87, Northern Pacific 37':, Standard 0il of California 45, Twentieth Cen- tury Fox 18%, U. S. Steel 417 Pound $280%, Canadian Exchange 93.68%. Sales today were 1,440,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 249.30, rails 78.10, utili- ties 42.03, ort captain in 1948. He was with the Fish and Wildlife Service 25 years. Captain Cole was a member of Juneau Elks lodge. Surviving are his widow, a brother and a sister. GOVT. INJUNCTION IN FISH TRAP CASE DENIED BY COURT Judge George W. Folta, in U. 8. District Court, has denied the gov- ernment’s application for a tempor- ary injunction, without prejudice. to prevent Libby, McNeill and Libby from operating a fish trap at Suk- wan, on the Hydaburg Indian Res- ervation. The judge’s decision was based on the fact that the cannery could not at present operate the trap, due to the fact that the fish- ing season does not open until Aug. 6. He gave the parties until July 15 to bring the. matter on whether the trap is legal or illegal before the court. Fcuador has vast untappes timber ources, | GOV. WARREN TALKS ABOUT Gives Address af U of Al- aska Commencement- Twining Speaks FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 22 — (M—Governor Earl Warren of Cali- fornia said yesterday that statehood for Alaska would remove all doubts | as to whether the United Szawsl the Territory. He spoke at Commencement Exer- cises at the University of Alaska. “We are told,” said Goy. Warren, “that Russia is building up her Arc- tic and sub-Arctic territory and cit- ies, that Archangel, Murmansk and Igarka are becoming militarily and economically stronger by the hour with population increases that would dwarf the claims of the chamber of commerce of our American cities. “It is difficult to understand how some members of Congress fail to see the necessity of doing the same thing on our side of the Interna- tional dateline.” Also Boosts for Hawaii Gov. Warren said he also urged statehood for Hawaii because he does not believe there is a place in the life of the nation for two | kinds of citizenship. California, he said, has a great interest in the Alaska statehood problem because the welfare of Cali- fornians is involved in what hap- pens to Alaska. “Like Alaska,” he said, “Cali- fornia was obliged to engage in a political struggle in order to gain admittance to the Union and there- y secure all the rights and bene- fits of first class citizenship. We, too, were confronted by abysmal ignorance throughout the nation concerning our value to the nation and our resources and our possibil- ities for development.” Honorary Degree Warren flew back to Seattle last night for return to California. He was ented an honorary degree of Doctor of Political Science by Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska, who praised Warren as “a friend of the Territories and of their aspira- tion to the full equality of state- hood.” Another honorary degree went to Bradford Washburn, director of the Boston Museum of Science and well- known explorer of Alaska mountains. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree. General Nathan Twining, | vice i | | | (Cocvinued on Page Two) n ") East 4 CHINESE CORPS ARE 'HACKED UP Actions on Fron{ Heavily Censored But Show- down Battle Looms By Associated Press Allied troops advanced in Western Korea today, probed an ominous Chinese buildup on the East-Central front, and fought to stem a Red sweep in the east. Infantry tropps waged see-saw battles in the eastern mountains 2§ miles south of Parallel 38. Commun~ ist troops were trying to expand a wedge driven in South Korean lines near Soksa, Front line reports said South Kor- eans were forced to adjust their lines for 25 miles eastward to the Sea of Japan. All dispatches referring to this action were heavily censored. Hacked to Pieces This fighting was on the Eastern flank of the heroic U. S. Second Division which hacked four Chinese corps to pieces in a Red offensive started last Wednesday. Second Division patrols probed northward Tuesday into a new force of 130,000 Chinese reported massing north of their lines for a new strike. AP Correspondent William C. Bar- nard said the new Allied aggres- siveness and the enemy buildup in- dicated a showdown battle. Small Groups Only However, AP Correspondent Tom b % ‘soauts folind no sizable Chinese concentrations im- mediately in front of the Second Dlvl.slon‘ Tuesday afternoon. Only small groups were spotted by planes hunting through the clouds and two tank patrols which reconnoitered more than a mile into no-man's- land. Planes and artillery hacked at Reds withdrawing on the West Cen- tral and Western fronts. Slowdown Movement One UN officer said he saw noth- ing “too significant” in this north- ward movement. He called it a slow- down. He sald the Red offensive “definitely petered out in the last three days.” “But,” this officer cautioned, “the enemy is still capable of continuing his advance.” Stacks of Dead UN patrols reported entering val- leys stacked with Chinese dead. “We could hear the wounded moaning as we approached,” a serg- eant said. In the Far West a strong task force stabbed deep into enemy ter- ritory and South Koreans pushed within five miles of Parallel 38. Casualties In Washington, the Defense De- partment said Chinese and Korean Reds lost an estimated 58,000 men in dead and wounded in their five- day old offensive. UN losses this time amounted to 1618 dead and wounded. This means that the Com- munists lost 36 times as many men as the Allies during the renewed | drive, a department spokesman said. Red Back Broken Maj. Gen. Clark L. Ruffner said his U. 8. Second Division, which has held the breach in many a tough spot in the Korean war, has broken the back of the second phase of the Red offensive on the East-Cen- tral front. Reds hurled four corps — 90,000 to 100,000 men — at the Americans after breaking through South Kor- ean lines on their right flank. The division not only stopped the Com- munists but plugged up the hole to the east. The hard-fighting Doughboys knocked out about 40,000 Commun- ists in the blazing battle. Ruffner said: “The boys cold.” have stopped them FROM WRANGELL Mrs. O. K. Rude and two child- ren from Wrangell are stopping at the Hotel Juneau. FROM BELLINGHAM Mr. and Mrs. Earl Balch of Bell- ingham are registered at the Bar- anof Hotel. FROM WALES Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Brown of { Wales, Alaska, are at the Baranof | Hotel,