The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 14, 1951, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY WASHINGTON, D. €. | VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,835 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE,TEN CENTS Allies Pushing Ahead In Shattered Red JOHNSON DIVULGES SECRETS,| Former Defense Secrefary | Reveals More Info on Formosa, Korea WASHINGTON, June 14 —(®— Louis Johnson, former secretary of defense, testified today he wanted to send a U, S. military mission to Formosa in December, 1949, but President Truman over-ruled him because of “political” protests from the State Department. Testifying at the Senate’s Mac- Arthur inquiry, Johnson said it was only after the fighting began in Korea that the State Department shifted its position and “no longer opposed doing things to keep For- mosa from falling into unfriendly hands.” Formosa is the big island off the China coast where Chiang Kai- Shek’s Chinese Nationalists took refuge when driven from the main- land by the Communists. . The question of its importance strategically to the United States has figured repeatedly in the hear- ihgs by the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations com- mittees on the dismissal of Gen. MacArthur. Guarding of Formosa Johnson, who left the Truman cabinet last September, said the de- cision to send the Seventh fleet to guard Formosa — after the outbreak of the Korean war—was taken after the Prestdent and others listened to a “brilliant” memo on the subject by MacArthur. Johnsen told the committees thak) there had been a difference of opin- ion between the State and Defense Departments late in 1949 about For- mosa. Acheson’s Opposition He said the Joint Chiefs recom- mended in December of that year that a military mission be sent to Formosa to aid Chiang Kai-Shek’s troops there but Secretary of State Acheson objected. A military mission was actually sent a few months ago. Johnson also gave the senators their first intimate story of the sending of troops to Korea. He said the decision to intervene militarily in Korea was made at a ‘White House meeting on motion of Acheson. ? But he told the senators he would not “indulge in personalities” or violate any confidence in his tes- timony. Not Ready to Fight Leading up to this, he said the American troops in the Far East were not ready for a fight when the war came, and that he had re- ceived no intimation of possible trouhle in Korea when visiting Mac- Arthur’s 'Tokyo headquarters only days before the North Korean (Cuctinued on' Page Two) TheWashington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Synaicate, Ine. ASHINGTON. — There is no quicker way to get a woman riled than tell her she isn't good-look- ing. Yet Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, himself a good-looking man and ef- ficient chief of the air force, has let himself be put in exactly that position with air force women. What General Vandenberg did was to bring aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, wife of finance wizard Floyd Odlum, into the air force as special adviser on the WAFS and later to accept her advice. Miss Cochran, after an investiga- tion at Lackland Air Base, Texas, reported that the WAFS lacked glamor. She went further and even advised General Vandenberg that the WAFS were too short, too fat and too unattractive. The air force, she said, should pay more attention to shapely figures in recruiting ‘women. Vandenberg agreed that the Navy seemed to be getting better looking females into the WAVES, and that the WAFS could go in for taller women. The chief of the air force il ot s e il (Continued on Page Four) “Cookie, please get well” is the tender plea of Sandra Shenehon, 8, as she solicitously fondles her mutt terrier, victim of a Minneapolis, Minn., dog poisoner. Sandra, blond, blue-eyed but deaf, has relied on Cookie’s companionship since she was 4. “Some bad people gave Cookie something bad to eat,” she explained to the veterinarian who said the dog has a 50-50 chance for life. (P Wirephoto. ATOM BLAST SLATED IS TERRIFIC] SAYS HERBERT “Had Feeling of Standing . at Gates of Hell,” Says... | Congressman } NEW ORLEANS, June 14 —(®— The mightiest atomic explosion yet | seen by congressional observers va- porized the steel tower on which the bomb was mounted and blasted palm tree stumps from an Eniwetok Atoll island. This picture of the power of a| new series of A-bombs was pre- sented today by Rep. F. Edward | Hebert, recently returned from the | Eniwetok experiments. He attended as an official observer for the House Armed Services committee. Of it Hebert said: “I had a feeling I was standing at the gates of -hell looking into etern- | ity He gave a graphic account of the test in the first of a series of arti- cles he wrote for the New Orleans States and which that paper made available to the Associated Press. The Cohgress member Wwrote guardedly that the bomb he saw detonated was “several times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiro- shima.” (There was some question whe- ther Hebert saw the last and pos- sibly biggest test blast set.off at Eniwetok. He and other congres- sional observers returned to the United States about May 12. (Ten days later there were un- official reports in Washington that still another explosion was to oc- cur, and it was not until May 25§ that the government announced the conclusion of the mid-Pacific ex- periments. That announcement in- cluded a hint that some type of hy- drogen bomb — perhaps on a small scale for an H-bomb but on a mam- moth scale for a conventional A- bomb — was tested). Alaska from Seattle scheduled to arrive sometime Saturday after- noon. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday, Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Chilcotin scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 p.m. Monday. Princess Kathleen scheduled to sail from Vancouver June 20. | Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle June 22, Denali from westward scheduled | to arrive 9 p.m. Friday southbound. | everything except a few charred; Dr. Allen O. Whipple (above) is slated to reecive the American Medical Association’s Gold Medal Award at 1951 AMA meeting in Atlantic City, N.J. Dr. Whipple is professor emeritus at Columbia University and clinical director of Memorial Hospital of New York. ) Wirephoto. PRETTY WIFE OF BRITISH OFFICER HITCHHIKES, KOREA TOKYO, June 14—(M—The young wife of a British Army Captain, with an enterprise which will make her the envy of many an Army wife, spent three days with her hus- pand near the fighting front in Korea. Pretty Mrs. Benita Lassetter ,27, mother of a seven-year-old son, willingly acknowledged she had made the unauthorized journey. But she would not tell how because she did not want to “kick up a fuss” for others involved. She probably hitchhiked plane rides both ways. She returned to- day. Her husband is Capt. Matthew Lassetter, 29, of the Northumber- land Fusilliers, an Army regular for 10 years. Mrs. Lassetter came here from her home at Roque Brune, Southern France, and saw him five or six days in Tokyo in May. After he returned to the front, she wanted to see him again be- fore she goes home. She was in Korea four days but it took one day to get the word to her husband. “A friend put us up,” she said, but she wouldn't elaborate. “We went for walks and I saw many friends.” No one, apparently, told her to leave. “They all seemed to think it was jolly fur Brent Stungill of Mt. Edgecumbe is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. MacARTHUR' WELCOMED BY TEXANS Record Crowd Greets Fired ; General; Appeasement Accusation Made HOUSTON, Texas, June 14 —(P— Gen. Douglas MacArthur brought his anti-administration - stand to Texas’ largest city today after draw- ing a record crowd at a Houston welcome parade. His speech tonight in a 70,000-seat football stadium will -give the de- posed Far Eastern commander an opportunity to develop these argu- ments he voiced on arriving in Texas vesterday : 1. U. 8. policy makers are guilty of appeasement in Korea—appease- ment that could lead to war with Russia. 2. The administration is guilty | of “moral weakness” in talking of la peace settlement. The biggest crowd ever seen in Houston turned out — but cheered only with marked restrairt — .to see MacArthur’s arrival parade late yesterday. Appeasement Charges Mayor Oscar Holcombe estimated the crowd at around 440,000, almost double the prévious record 250,000 drawn - by President Franklin D, ! Roosevelt, in 1936, Other estimaies ran ponsiderably lower. MaeArthur made his appeasement accusation from the steps of the state capitol in Austin. About 20,00 Texans listened as the T71-year-oid general declared America’s first Line of defense is on the Yalu river.at the nchurian border and not {ge “The policies of appeasement on which we are now embarked carry ! within themselves the very incita- tion to a war against us,” he said. “If the Soviet does strike, it will be because of the weakness we now dis- play rather than the strength we of right should display.” He blamed “the moral weakness ,of the freed world” — not Soviet military strength — for Russian advances. "NO" SAYS MacARTHUR Answer isEn—phalic Re- garding Whether He Would Run for Pres. AUSTIN, Texas, June 14 —(P— “Emphatically no,” was Gen. Doug- las MacArthur's answer when asked ‘if he would run for president. “Would you run for president?” the war hero was queried by a Dallas news staffer yesterday. “No,” MacArthur said. The reporter was not sure he had heard righti, so he asked the general to repeat his answer to the question. “The answer was emphatically no,” MacArthur said. ‘When asked if his Texas trip was linked with political ambitions, Mac- Arthur gave this explanation of his Texas tour: “When I first came back to the United States, I went to my own ancestral home and then to Mrs. MacArthur’s. And then I came to where I was a boy — Texas.” FROM SEATTLE E. C. Baker of Seattle is at the Baranof Hotel. 1 STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 14 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2’2, American Can 111%, American Tel. and Tel, 1537, Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft 47, General Electric 54%, General Mot- ors 48%, Goodyear 78%, Kennecott 4%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 87, Northern Pacific 42%, Standard Oil of California 47%, Twentieth Cent- ury Fox 18, U. S. Steel 41, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange 93.25. Sales today were 1,300,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 252.46, rails 79.38, utili- uies 4243, | | (aptured Tank & Gu n_G_gl;_ Going Over Officers and GI's inspect Russian-made 57mm anti- tank gun on Korea’s west-central front. The power- ful weapon, capable of penetrating 5!; inches of ar mor plating, is believed the first weapon of its type to be captured in the Korean campaign. (# Wirephnto. Air Women Gef New Boss |FISHING Gen. Nathan F. Twining, vice chief of aic staff, pins colonel’s eagle insignia on shoulders of Mary Jo Shelly as she becomes new head of the Women’s Air Fore during ceremony at the Pentagon Building, Washington, D. ® Wirephoto. TESTIMONY SHOWS DOPE, WASH, D.. NarcoticsBou—ghtThere"As Easy as a Soft Drink”” Is Report Made WASHINGTON, June 14 —@®— Senate crime investigators today made public testimony describing drug addicts’ parties in the nation’s capital and relating that “dope” could be bought here “as easy as a soft drink.” The testimony was taken from in- mates of the House of Correction for Men and the Reformatory for Wo- men, both at Jessups, Md. Most of the witnesses said nar- cotics are cheaper in Washington than in Baltimore, but readily avail- able to adults and tenn-agers inl both cities. Names of the witnesses, questioned at the two institutions May 29 and June 7, were withheld. A 23-year-old Washington woman told of earning money through prostitution to buy dope. The report quoted her as saying she “went ‘as girls do’ on the street to get needed funds.” “She said that quite a few of the girls she knew had to do that to take care of their habit,” the re- port added. Release of the report coincided with a demand by Fairfax County | supervisors in nearby Virginia for a state law providing mandatory life | imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of peddling dop¢ to minors. Y Supervisor Robert Dye sponsored a resolution directed to Gov. John TOP FOUR FLOORS MENDENHALL - APTS. OCCUPIED MID-JULY Occupancy of the new Mendenhall { Apartment building’s top four floors |is expected by mid-July, according to Ken Eskestrand, construction superintendent of ‘the ' Anderson Construction Company. The building will be completed by the end of July and will be ready for occupancy by then. One elevator will be completely finished in one week with the second fin- ished in three weeks. The tower that has been used to carry build- Jing supplies to the various floors 1of the building will be demolished by next week, Painting of the struc- ture will then proceed to com- pletion. Kenneth Anderson, permanent manager of the Mendenhall Apart- ments, is expected to arrive Ju}y 1 with his family. The rental office is now located on the east side of the first floor of the building. NAVY RESERVE T0 HEAR LECTURE ON ELECTRONICS Juneau’s U. 8. Navy Reserve unit|g will hold a meeting tonight at the| o National Guard offices at 7:30. Py Lt. Andrew Moe, of the Kodiak|ge Naval Base, will give a lecture on| o modern electronicy, devices used by | o the Navy and show a film on the| o subjeat. All members of the unit are urged to be present. TIDE TABLES June 15 4:15 am. 10:28 a.m. Low tide | High tide S. Battle asking him to recommend such legislation to the 1952 general assembly, * Low tide 4:07 pm. High tide 10:24 p.m. ———————————————————————— | [ i as having disappeared BOAT IS DISABLED Craft With 26 Persons Re- porfed Aboard Taking Water, Kodiak Bound SEATTLE, June 14 —— Alaska- bound {fishing vessel with 26 persons abourd réporte’® todky it was ‘dts- abled in the North Pacific and tak- ing water over its stern. The Coast Guard said the vessel, the Sea Lark, messaged at 9:28 a.m. PST today that was taking water over its stern, with its engines dead. It wgs reported 300 miles due west of Queen Charlotte Sound, off the British Columbia coast. . The manager of the Global Pack- ing Co., owner of the Sea Lark, said there was no reason to believe the vessel to be in any immedate danger. The manager, W. H. Lilly, said tak- ing water over the stern was noth- ing unusual for the loaded vessel because it rides low in the water. He said the vessel has a crew of 10 under Capt. Ben Bandickson, of Seattle. He described it as a tuna- type fishing vessel, making its sec- ond annual trip to the northern fishing grounds. It is a 165-foot craft with nine smaller fishing boats lashed to the deck. It is headed for Kodiak. The cutter Winona and a Canad- ian frigate were reported speeding toward the vessel. The first distress call was re- layed to the‘ConsL Guard by the marine operator shortly after mid- night. Water in the fuel oil was blamed for the vessel’s trouble. & The Global Packing Company, Seattle, was listed as the owner. DISAPPEARING COOK Levi DeBord, about 34, was re- ported to U. S. Coast Guard head- quarters here yesterday afternoon from the motor vessel Sally S, at Kake. SEATTLE VISITOR Robert W. Graham of Seattle at the Baranof Hotel. WEATHER REPORT . . ® ‘Temperature for 24-Hour Period * ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 54; minimum, 44, At Airport — Maximum, 56; minimum, 43. FORECAST Partly cloudy with scat- tered rain showers tonight and Friday. Lowest temper- ature tonight near 45. Warm- er Friday with highest temp- erature near 58. PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hiours ending 7:30 a.m. foday City of Juneau — .77 inches At Airport — .67 inches; Since June 1 — 248 inches; Since July 1 — 43.88 inches. e o 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 Area COLUMNS OF TANKS ROAM UNOPPOSED Small Red—F;;ces Harass Allies in One Sector, Fight in Others By Associated Press Allied tank eolumns roamed at will over the Reds' shattered iron triangle in Korea Thuisday, but small groups of Chinese bitterly op- posed infantry attempts to mop up the area, A late field dispatch said that al- though the Reds had apparently abandoned serious efforts to defend their former supply center, si forces up to company strength ( or so each) rémained behind to harass the advancing Allies, : Despite small local setbacks, how- ever, the Allies were able to push ahead in that Central sector. Reds Turn, Fight Farther efst the Communists turned and fought. UN patrols probed through intense artillery fire to omtpost of the new Red defense line north of Yanggu and Inje on the East Central front. In some sectors the Allies were kept busy Thursday beating off & series of North Korean counterat- tacks. The U. S. 8th Army reported only one advance of as much as & mile. On Eastern Line The picture along the east was in marked contrast to the situation in the west. t tanks, ltterly covered with riflfemen, rumbled the my‘%’nfi;@. "w:egm opposed. The two big columns of more than 100 tanks returned at night after sweeping beyond the bomb shattered city. Tank forces and infantrymen again made “little or no contact” with the Chinese In the triangle area Thursday, the 8th Army re- ported. Enemy Sllenced 3 However, the Fifth Air Force said “a large concentration of enemy troops” poured heavy fire into UN troops in the Pyonggang sector. Jet pilots roared in with fire bombs and blasting machineguns. The Air Force said they “silenced the en- emy.” . RUSSIANS KILL IRAN SENTRYMAN TEHRAN, Iran, June 14—P—An authoritative government source says an Iranian frontler patrol soldier was shot and killed by Russians along the border east the Caspian Sea. - The Informant sald an JIranian | Military Commission was sent to |the frontier to investigate the in- cident, which took place three days ago. He sald the Russians reported the soldier was shot because he was found on the Soviet side of the frontier. There have been a number. of clashes between Soviet and Iranian troops in the past few years in bor- | der areas. The new incident came, however, at a time of great tension in Iran, where such agitation against all foreigners is belng carried on. The | British Ambassador, Sir Francis Shepherd, has just warned Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh that continued Iramian propaganda against the British may touch off a powder keg of violence against all foreigners in the southern oil field areas. Shepherd disclosed his warning as top officlals of the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company pre- pared to start negotiations, perhaps today, with Iran’s government on the nationalization of the com- pany's vast holdings centered at the Persian gulf port. From Abadan Associated Press | correspondent. Fred Zusy reported ithe situation there appeared ex= tremely delicate.