The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 28, 1951, Page 1

\ JONGR! LIBRAR A eETNG THE DAILY 3 \ VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,821 . ESSIONAL TON. D. © IS AGAINST BOMBING OF RED BASES Gen. Vandtfi)érg Says Air Force Now Operating on "Shoestring” ‘WASHINGTON, May 28 — (P — Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg said today the United States is operating with a “shoe string Air Force and can not afford now to adopt Gen. Doug- las MacArthur's proposed sirategy of bombing Red bases in Manchur Testifying at the Senate inquiry into MacArthur’s dismis Vanden berz also said he believes there are | 8 “reasonable chances” of getting negotiated peace in Korea without such bombing. Vandenberg, the Air Force Chiet of Staff, said he believes if the ful power of the U. S, Air Force were; thrown into the balance in Kori “there would be a good chance of forcing them (Chinese Reds) to ne- gotiate.” Big Force Reguired But he contended it would take the full weight of the Air Force to; accomplish this, and the Air Force cannot afford to do it lest it be called upon to meet a Russian al- tack elsewhere. MacArthur had contended no ma- terial increase in air strength al ready assigned to the Far East woulds be needed to carry out his plan oil v bombing Manchuria. Asserting that the U. S. Air Force remains the single largest deterrent to any Russian attack that‘might} start World War III, Vandenber: said he thinks the fighting in Korei ! can be halted without all-out us2, of air there. He added: Air Force Supreme “I believe that there are reason- able chances of success in achievinz a negotiated peace without endanz- ering that onc potential that we have, which has kept the peace so far, which is the United States Air Force.” Vandenberg said he concurred in the orders to MacArthur not to bomb north of the Yalu river bound- ary between Korea and Manchuria. Then Vandenberg added: “While I was and am today against bombing across the Yalu, it does no’ mean by any stretch of the imag- ination that I might not be for it tomorrow, a month from now, or six months from now.” Vandenberg completed his first day of testimony at 11:30 am. and will return tomorrow. MacArthur's Proposal MacArthur urged the bombing of Chinese Red supply bases and troop concentrations in Manchurcia as an effective way to carry the war to the Communists and avoid a “bloody stalemate” in Korea. It was his pub- lic advocacy of this, strategy, plus a naval and economic blockade of Red China and use of Chinese Na- tionalists troops, that led Presiden Truman to dismiss him April 11 from his Far Eastern commands. Vandenberg, testifying at the in- quiry into MacArthur's dismissal’ also told the senators: 1. The Russian-built MIG-15 fighter plane used by the Chinese Communists has a jet engine “sup- erior to any we have.” He said he surmised it was-developed with thc aid of German technicians, 2. The Russians now have the “capability” for mass production of first rate aircraft. The Washington Merry - Go - Bound By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Synaicaie, Inc. ASHINGTON.—Stuart Syming- ton, the Truman trouble-shooter, has made a good start toward cleaning the barnacles from the politics-ridden Reconstruction Fin- ance Corporation. He may not know it, however, but the most scandal- ous case in his files involves one of the major railroads of the Uni- ted States and a member of the Rooseveit cabinet. It also involves some of the worst wire-pulling and deliberate decep- tion which this observer has ever seen in Washington. The railroad is the Baltimore and Ohio, which borrowed $87,000,- (Continuvd ou Page Four) members in its international organ- igation is the only organization on of questions Rescued‘Ynks | r Grimy Second Di them on Korca’s east-central fron: Chinese Reds for six' days. iWleveland, Ohio, « Rear. (left: to ville, Pa.; Cpl, James Chrispiin: lant, St. Clairsyille, Ol cn soldiers stand in front of tank that rescued Tn group (left to right) are: Pfe. V. Cidoni, Brooklyn; Cpl. E. Meeks, Beltghi, 5. C.; andl Cpl. G. Tuttle, Sudtimento, Cal; Lieut. Wm. Bal- ‘Pvt. Jge Plessis, Biddleford, Me,, and JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1951 MEMBER ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME® ————— PRICE TEN CENTS Lt SOCIATED PRES { after they had been cut off by i Pfe. Jaines Fiore, Coats- right): yirephotoy: » Pfe. R. O'Dell, Cass Cith) Conventio When 75 people gathered at the opening banquet of the Second Al- aska Federation Cohvention of Bus- iness and Professional Women's Clubs Saturday night in the Bar- anof Gold room, BPW members and guests’ were impressed by the fact that the convention was a pretty important affair. There had been registration dur- ing Saturday afternoon of visiting delegates and hkoard members, of Juneau officers, delegates and al- ternates. The Baranof hotel is headqua:- ters for the biennial convention that will continue its meetings through tonight and end with a postconvention meeting Tuesday morning. The banquet introduced td the club members and visitors Mrs. Cecilia P. Galey, national legisla- tive chairman, and representative of the national organization at the convention, and Miss Ruth McGrew, president of the Alaska federation BPWC. Mrs. Frances B. Paul, sec- ond vice president of the Alaska Federation, is convention chairman, and was also toastmistress at the banquet Saturday. Miss Hallene Price, recently installed Juneau president, presided at the banguet. Past-president Lucille Stine, was introduced as having been respon- sible for many convention plans, and for money-raising necessary for convention purposes. Mrs. Galey Speaker Mrs. Galey, speaker of the eve- ning, had as her topic, the theme of the national organization for the 1951-52 season: Full Partner- ship for the Job Ahead. A lawyer, her address was entitled “Women, PBartners Under the Law,” and she developed the club’s theme of “get. ting ahead on the job; new pat- terns in behavior to promote na- tional strength and to build a free world. The Federation of Business and Proiessional Women, with 160,000 a national basis devoted to women in business, Mrs. Galey said. Better World Partners “We must teach ourselves to be- come better citizens of the world, to help develop our own commun- ities, to be good political citizens; to vote. We must study both sides and we want to know koth sides . . It takes not men to make a betfer world, or women one. . but men and women to- gether, partners for a better world,” the natjonal officer said. Mrs. Galey told those at the ban- quet how the BPW w formed a development of Secretary of War Newton D. Baker's request, during World War I. The war was over for Bi | nrough Monday ennial Lefore the organization was formed but Ly 1919, organization was com- pleted and the BPW on its way. Aim at that time was that every ¢irl seeking entrance to the busi- ness world should have a high school education. Strides by Women To impress the strides made by women in the prof ons, Mrs. Galey told of the difficulties faced Lty Elizabeth Blackwell a hundred s ago because she desired to ome a doctor. She applied for entrance to 12 medical schools and all refused to accept a female, and finally her entrance into small| Geneva Medical College in 1847 was the scandal oOf the village. Her courage won her graduation high in her cl but no applause from the world. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal made this com- ment: “It is to be regretfed that she has been induced to depart from the ‘appropriate sphere of her own sex, and led to aspire to honors and duties which by the order of nature and the common consent of the world, devolve alone upon men.” 8000 Medicos And now, Mrs. Galey added, there are over 8,000 women medical doc- tors in the United States—of which Alaska has a good share. As to her own profession, here the problem was as great, Mrs. Ga- ley said. When Lavinia Goodall, as recently as 1875 applied for ad- mission to the bar in Iowa, the judge who refused her admission said: “There are many employments in life not unfit for female char- acter. The profession of the law is surely not one of these. The pecu- liar qualities of womanhood, its gentle graces, its quick sensibility, its tender susceptibility, its purity, its delicacy, its emotional impul- ses, its subordination of hard rea- son to sympathetic feeling, are surely not qualifications for foren- sic strife. Nature has tempereg woman as little for juridical con- flicts of the court room, as for the physical conflicts of the battle- tield. Womanhood is molded for gemtler and betté® things.” Then, Mrs, Galey, who practices law with her husband in Sweet Home, Oregon, said “Now I would like to hear any judge in the state Oregon say that to me.” The banquet tables were centered with large bowls of daffodils and | flowers. Flowers for the | speakers’ table were brought to| Juneau by the representatives of o1 pring 10 IMPEACH GOV. WARREN OF FLORIDA Charge Made He Wilfully Disregarded Evidences of Lawlessness in State TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 28 —# The Florida House of Representa- tives was asked today to impeach 3ov. Fuller Warren on grounds that he wilfully disregarded his duties and ignored idences of lawless- less” in this free-spending vacation state. Rep. George Okell of Miami, untit recently one of Warren'’s stout po- litical supporters, introduced the resolution calling for impeachment of the governor on 10 counts of alleged misdemeanors in office. All of them involved complaints that have been made publicly abou the governor — about his campaign xpenditur the conduct of i ‘acing commission, his reinst: nent of three ousted sheriffs, ais attitude toward the Fl ;ambliing situation. = A two-thirds vote of the Hahse would immediately sulpend the gov= ernor from office and Senaté Pges- ident Wallace E. Sturgis, would taka over his duties. The state Senhte would then, within six months, con~ duct a trial of the governor. No Florida governor ever has been removed by impeachment, although the House twice, in 1868 and 1872, voted impeachment articles a;z‘;mt Rw_ggc n 9.2‘[» Hurrlsoxz R(l, 3 PIONEE EXPLORER IS DEAD lincoln Ellsworth, Aerial Surveyor of Arctic and Antarctic, Passes On NEW YORK, May 28 —#— Polar Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, 71, a pioneer in aerial survey of the Arc- tic and Antactic,~ died Saturday night. Ellsworth, several lost during years of died of a heart attack. Ellsworth’s wife, Mary Louise, was with him at the end. The explorer’s last major trip of exploration was a flight into the interior of Antarctic in 1939, when he claimed 81,000 square miles of territory for the United States. In 1935, he had claimed another 300,000 square miles of the Antarc- tic continent for the U. S. At the time of the last explora- tion, he was a lieutenant commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve. Down on Ice Ellsworth and Capt. Rod#ld Amund- sen, another famous Polar explorer, set out by plane in 1925 with hopes of being the first to reach the North Pole by air. But headwinds kept the two, using separate planes, from their goal They were forced down on ice, and Ellsworth’s plane was wrecked. Down In Open Sea The two managed to join forces after a month and took off in their remaining plane. But they were forced down in open sea and event- ually rescued by a sealer. Ellsworth’s father died believing his son had been lost. Fly Over North Pole A year later, in 1926, Ellsworth and Amundsen succeeded in flying over the North Pole in the dirigible Norge. They crossed the pole on May 12, Ellsworth’s 46th birthday. But Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett beat them to the pole in a plane by three days. He financed many of his trips with the fortune he inherited from his father, a wealthy mine operator. Saturday on PAA for Fairbanks where Sheldon will spend several days on business for the Employ- i o times feared exploration, the new BPWC at Mt. Edgecumbe, vidual bouquets were at each (Continued on Page Two) ment Security Commission, of which he is executive director. SHELDONS TO FAIRBANKS Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sheldon left He i1s in St. Ann's Hospital. | 1 fight between two Queens factions, One youth died of stab wounds and two others suffered knife and gun- Police s shot wounds in the brawl in which more than 40 youths tock part. various charges of felonious a RACKETEER SENTENCED | { 4 Joe Adonit and Fouf Aséot ciates Sent to Prison, Also Given Fines : HACKENSACK, N.'J,, May 28 — | (A—Big shot racketger Joe Adonis | was sentenced to two to three years || !in state prison and fined $15,000 for | violating New Jersey gambling | laws. | It was the first jail sentence ever imposed on the 49-year-old Adonis, who was named by the Senate Crime committee as one of the nation's most notorious gamblers. Superior Court Judge J. Wallace ILeydon, who imposed sentense, also lsuspended an additional five-year prison term. Receiving similar sentences were four New Jersey associates of the dappgr, Brooklyn-born underworld figure, Salvatore (Solly More) Mnr-‘ etti, 46 of Demarest; James Piggy | Lynch, 46, of Palisades Park; Arthur | § Longano, 46, of Englewood, and An- thony Guarini, 58 of Hasbrouck Heights. All five were accused of operating a plush $1,000,000 North Jersey dice gambling emplre. They each faced a possible sent- ence of 18 years in prison and $18,- 000 fine. Adonis, whose real name is Joseph Doto, and his four lieutenants elect- ed to plead no defense to four gamb- ling conspiracy charges last Monday | rather than face the publicity of a trial. : “Joe Adonis is the victim of the most vicious, rotten persecution that ever existed,” his attorney John Sel- ser told the court. * STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 28 quotation of Alaska Juneau stock today is 2%, American 109%, American Tel. and Tel Anaconda 407%, General F 527, General Motors 487, Goodyear 78, Kennecott 73%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 39, Standard Oil of California 44' Twentieth Century Fox 187., U Steel 40%, Pound $2.80'¢, Canadial Exchange 93.81%. Sales today were 1,240,000 share Averages today.were as follow Industrials 247.03, rails 78.08, utilitic 42.02. 5 ) Closing | mine Can 154 sctric S | TONY ASTROM BREAKS LEG Tony Astrom, aboard the cannery tender, Africk, fractured his leg a! Gambier Bay, Admiralty Island and was brought to Juneau by Al- aska Coastal Airlines yesterday af- ternoon, according to informaTion at Coast Guard headquarters here.| ult, illegal pi sion of weapor ¥ Henry Ford McCracken (center), ing of 10-year-old Patricia Hull, apepasr to shy away as he is led to the edge of the rough grave at Santa Ana, Calf, in which the girl's body was found. Helding suspiciou of kidnapping, are Deputy Sherifs Boyd Sturgis (left) and Dan Rios. ) Wirephoto. THER REPORT for 2é-Hour Period o'ciock this morning Juneau — Maximum, ; minimum, 46, At Airport 61; minimum, 42. FO CAST Partly cloudy tonight witn increasing and thickening cloudiness, light showers. Low temperature tonight 45 degrees, high Tuesday near 59. PRE (Past 24 hours ending City of Juneau — Trace; Since May 1 3.81 inches; - 71.86 inche: Maximum, IPITATION 7:30 a.m. teday — 2.14 inches; ce July 1 — 4141 inches. STEAMER MOVEMENTS ail we rd 8 cheduled to twe at night ith Portland Jour- uled te Prince Gec 1 tour part 4:15 tomorrow y hoard sehec § afternoo: irrive a Prir Louise from Ancouver cheduled to arrive tomorrow after- noon or evening. Jaranof scheduled to Seattle Friday, ’ and unlawful assembly. (® Wirephoto. ¢t Looks at Grave ail from U.N. Troops Take Big Bag Reds A Search Teen%géss ; Prisoners ~ [Reps LosE NERVE, GO ON RETREAT Resislance,—fiwevér, Re- ported Stiffening-New Attack _Nlay Come By Associated Press Communist resistance stiffened to- day as UN troops pushed deeper into Red Korea after taking the war's greatest bag of prisoners. But Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet said the Chinese Communists had lost their,nerve and retreated when they couldn’t crack the U. 8. 2nd Division. Enemy Loses Nerve “He (the enemy) lost his nerve, He just quit and hauled out,®added the UN ground commander. U. 8. 8th Army headquarters an- nounced 3,000 Reds surrendered Sunday. Another 2,000 were taken last week. Most of the 5,000 were captured n a great box-like trap, 26 miles across and ten miles deep. The lid of the trap is the Hwachon Rescr- voir with UN forces anchored at each side in Inje and Hwachon. Both are in North Korea. UN forces drove new prongs Mon- day across the -38th Parallel, al- ready punctured at half a dozen points. South Koreans smashed into Sakchang, 4% miles north of the Parallel and 10 miles west of Hwa- chon. Americans moved up on their western flank, Stiffening Resistance Reds put up stiffening resistance against advancing forces Monday and fewer surrendered. A strong Allied task force shoved 10 miles beyond cap‘ured Inje into North Korea. It was turned back by withering fire from a Red road block near the village of Hangye, ninc miles north of the Parellel. But the retreat, “fast as it is,” said Gen, Van Fleet, does not necessarily mean any end to the war, “How far he (the enemy) will re- | treat T do not know,” the UN com- mander soid, “He still has plenty of reserves and great latent capabil- ities. He can smash us again if he wants to.” Peace Rumors Meantime, peace rumors continued as the Allies scored successes In the fighting, but the U. S. State Department said it knew of no new joint truce proposal or review of a 14-nation truce statement prepared in March. Diplomatic officials in ‘Washing- ton said the l4-nation statement. could serve as an approach to nego- tiations if the Reds are interested. | But with the military position of the Reds weaker now than in March, the terms for peace — if the Reds want to' talk about it — may be ; stiffer. 3 SABRE JETS TAKE ON EIGHT RUSSIAN MIGS U. 8. 5TH AIR FORCE HEAD- QUARTERS, Korea, May 28 »-lM—T The I ribunal upheld Federal | Three American F-86 bubrc‘cjelb; Communi pproval of C caught eight Russian-made M Yl-lu umbia Broadca System’s high- | Jets 10 miles south of the val ly controversial color TV plan. river today-and damaged one in @ Justice Black livered the 8-1|brief air battle. ol opinion, rejectin appeal by the The Sabre jets returned to bas Radio Corporation of merica lmlxcmheu. L RCA’s competing TV c sstem | Lt., William H. Gallup of Sout was turned down by the F when | Norfolk, Va., faid: , it approved-the CBS plan. “They didn’t really want to fight— we were just between them and the Yalu.” Lt. Col. Glenn T. Eagleston of Alhambra, Calif., damaged the MIG before the Reds broke off the bai- tle. The fight lasted less than five minutes. . By 6 p.m. Monday the S5th Air Force had flown 520 sorties. CATCHES BIG SALMON Mrs. Jo Fender landed a 24-pound | salmon Sunday while fishing at attack on|Dodie Cove. She used a Bert Sea- ton salmon lure. 2 fter a gang arests were made on held in connection with the slay- McCracken, who was arrested on COLOR TELEVISION MAY ENTER NEW IEL, SAYS COURT 28 » cleared the to invade WASHINGTON, May The Supreme Court ha way for color television the black and white ficld ation’ | dissented | ikfurter opinion which of Chief Jus- nd Justices Reed, Bur- J Calrk and addition to Black Fr Justice from the represe tice Vinso: ton, Dougl: Minton in ‘The high tribunal ori nnounced plans to wind for the term, but the ji inother opinion day next will be sary. In other they: 1. Virginia” of two other ajority d the view n, had 1ally pits w tices said Monday ac! tion Rejected a Negro's. poll tax law but disposed civil rights cases by v — —e L. S. Snaring of Seattle is stop- (Cuptinued «n Page Two) lpnn{ at the Gastineau Hotel,