The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 16, 1951, Page 1

LONGRESSIONAR *&'¥E} “IBRARY | VASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXVIIIL, NO. 11,837 REARGUARD REDS FIGHT FOR ESCAPE Mlied Patrols Clash with Retreating Reds on North, Central Fronts TOKYO, June 16 — (® — Rear- guard Reds and probing Allied pa- trols clashed head-on today in scat- tered battles across the Jagged mountains of the East and Central fronts in Korea. The Communists fought désper- ately to save their escape routes to the north as Allied armored forces thrust toward the new Red fortress city of Kumscng. Chinese and North Korean main forces continued to fall back along the front ahead of heavy Allied ar- tillery fire. The U. S. 8th Army commander warned that another Red offensive is expected. Red Offensive Expected In a frontline interview Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet said “the com- munists’ declared intention is still to throw us into the sea. We do ex- pect a third round of the Chinese spring offensive. The enemy has sufficient reserve units that have not been in contact for some time.” The bloodiest fighting Saturday was north of Inje on the Eastern front, and'in the wooded hills de- fending the road to Kumsong. Kum- song is 12 miles north of Kumhwa on the West Central front. . AP Correspondent George Mc- Arthur said the Reds northwest of Inje launched two counterattacks during the day, Both were, thrown baeg™T In the same area an Allied pa- trol crashed into a village full of ‘Reds. A short sharp fight followed before the patrol returned to Allied lines. Reds Lose Hill A pooled dispatch from the West Central front said UN infantrymen captured a strategic hill overlooking Kumhwa. The Reds fought bitterly to hold the hill only two days ago. Saturday, however, they left only a small delaying force on the ridge- line. In the “iron triangle” area bound- ed by Chorwon, Kumhwa and Pyonggang, Allied patrols searched vainly for Red units. On the sea the UN suffered- their second setback in three days. The destroyer-minesweeper U. S. ' S. Thompson was hit by Red shore batteries near Songjin on the north- east coast Thursday. Three men were killed. Twenty-six seamen were killed Tuesday when the des- troyer Walke was rocked by an un- derwater explosion. VISITING BROTHER Mrs. Charles Cheatham of Chi- cago stopped over last night at the Gastineau Hotel enroute to Pelican to visit her brother, Tracy Huffman He is a fisherman there and she plans to go fishing with him. This will be the second time she has seen him in 20 years. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Synaicite, Inc. ASHINGTON. — If the Senate ever gets around to a real investi- gation of the Justice Department— which probably never will happen— it will find tucked in a pigeonhole a sensational report on Arabian oil which for three long years has been gathering dust. The Senate investigating com- mittee, of which Harry Truman himself once was chairman, sent this report to the Justice Depart- ment. It outlines a scandalous cheating of the U. S. Government, and a possible criminal case against the oil companies. However, the Justice Department has done nothing. Furthermore the statute of limitations is rapidly ticking away, and it will soon be too late to act. The Justice Departments stalling in the Arabian oil base is similar to its stalling regarding the radar grab by the Radio Corporation of (Continued on Page Four) “ALL THE NEW.S ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA; SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1951 Uss thppme Sea Sels New Speed Mark MACARTHUR B Tuingg The 27,000-ton aircraft carrier Philippine Sea passes under the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge :!tqr 11 months in Korean waters. The big flattop bettered the Japan-San Francisco crossing by more than 5% hours the previous record of 7 days, 18 hours and 36 minutes set last year by the USS Boxer. The much decorated Air Group 2 personnel spell out CVG 2 (Carrier Vessel Gorup 2) on m deck. lh background is part of San Francisco skyline. U. S. Navy phnto via W) Whphm 12 PORTLANDERS TO| BE MET BY JUNEAU Miss (ahiorma CHAMBER SUNDA% i Eight members of the .muau & Chamber of Commerce have volun-, teered to meet the visiting Port- | landers Sunday afternoon when their Pan American Airways plane | arrives at the Juneau airport afi 3 o'clock. They are Robert Cowling, Charles‘ Carter, R.B.Burrows, Helen Monsen, | Joseph MacLean, Dr. Herbert Rowland and Pet.er Wood The party from Portland will con- sist of 22 members of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, including | four wives. They plan a 12-day trade tour of the Territory with the first stop at Juneau. Other stops will be at Fairbanks and Anchorage with side trips. ! According to R. B. Maloney, chair- | man of the Alaska committee, the Portland chamber’s fourth annual tour includes representatives from widest variety of businesses of any | tour so far, including fresh produce, all lines of merchandise, agricul- tural machinery and. implements, building and hardware supplies, fur- naces, school supplies, banking, ship- ping and port officials from both | Portland and Longview. | Leading the tour will be Edgar W. Smith, president of both meI Portland Chamber of Commerce and the Oregon State Board of mgherj Education. A former insurance and | mill executive, Smith operates a| large wheat and cattle ranch in‘ Eastern Washington. George Umbaugh, president, Port | of Longview, and Thomas Murray, | general traffic manager, Portland Dock Commission will be in the group. Well known ln Alaska, George M. Henderson, assistant vice president First National bank of Portland and past chairman of the chamber’s Alaska committee, will be in charge of the tour's planning‘ along with Maloney, who is traffic manager for Montgomery Ward & Co. Others in the party include: Tom Humphrey, editor, the editorial page, the Oregon Journal; C. V. Lynch, Coastwise Line; JoRn M. Clark, manager, Columbia Produce Co.; J. M. Constantine, Portland manager, New York Merchandise Co.; J. O. Davis, president, Northwest Build- ings, Inc.; Wendeil Gray, partner, Gray & Liswr; Herbert W. Hall, president, Maytag Northwest Co.; George Halling, general manager, J. K. Gill Co.; Lloyd Meyers, west- ern division manager, Massey-Har- ris Co.; H. J. Sandberg, president, Sandberg Manufacturing Co.; H. A. Schmitt, general contractor; Carter Brandon, manager Chamber Alaska Department and Philip M. Hunt, manager Chamber Publicity Dept. The wives include Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Umbaugh, Patricia Lehman (above), 25, an auburn haired Sacramento school teacher. edged out 16 other con- testants for the title, “Miss Cal- ifornia of 1951” at Santa Cruz. Her statistics: height 5 feet 7, weight 125, bust 37, waist 27, hips 37. She also won a $500 scholar- ship, a $1,000 wardrobe, a dia- mond ring and a week in Flor- ida. (AP ‘VIBEPI.IOTO) Alaska from Seattle in port west- bound. Prince George from Vancouver due Monday. o Barano? from Seattle due Tues- day. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. Chilcotin: scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 p.m. Monday. Princess Kathleen scheduled to sail from Vancouver June 20. Aleutian scheduled to sall from Seattle Juae 22, FIGHT lOOMS | IASKS END OF APPEASEMENT DALLAS, June 16 —(®— Genernlv Douglas MacArthur finishes his Texas campaign today convinced the people now will demand an end to what he calls American appease- ment. If his ouster by President Truman is a factor, declared the deposed UN commander “then I would be thankful, indeed.” Still stepping briskly after run- ning a small army of newsmen ragged across the far reaches of Texas, the Tl-year-old commander makes his final address today at nearby Fort Worth. In Dallas yesterday he drew the most boisterous crowd of his four- day tour. And in Dallas’ 76,000-seat Cotton Bowl Stadium last night— with only 27,500 seats filled — he was interrupted 18 times by ap- plause. For the first time in the tour an unruly crowd broke through thinly- spaced police to surround and al- most engulf his open convertible. The scene in front of the Adolphus hotel at Dallas had some of the un- restrained enthusiasm of his public appearances after his return from Korea. At the immense Cotton Bowl sta- dium later, his voice echoing against the chasm of many empty seats, the Pacific war hero was urged by his listeners to “pour it on.” Other listeners let go with the southerner’s typical Rehel yell. He said the reception given him “offers assurance” the people will j| faxce .inte -effect his program ‘WASHINGTON, June 16 —P— A 90-day suspension of a -congres- sional ban on:economic aid to coun- tries trading “behind the Iron Cur- tain was Mkely 'to lead to anotherJ tight betWeen/}he . White ‘House and 4+ Congress. The National Security Council (NSC), under President Truman, advised Congress yesterday of the “interim” suspension to allow time for further study of trading situa- tions in the countries receiving U. S. aid. The ban prohibits — with one loophole — sending any aid, econo- mic or financial, to any country shipping war-useful goods to Russia or its Satellites. The loophole provides for excep- tions whenever the Security Coun- cil tells Congress that operation of the ban would hurt the security interest of the U. 8. President Truman called the ban “seriously defective” on June 2 when he signed the appropriation bill to which it was attached. But Republican leaders, calling the administration’s objections “State Department jargon,” cau- tioned against any general suspen- sion of the aid ban. Senators investigating the firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and U. S. policy in the Far East were not in session today. The ‘joint committee’s next meet- ing is scheduled for Monday, when a vote is planned on how many more witnesses will be summoned, Nine have been heard so far, start- ing with MacArthur and ending m- térday with former Secretary of De- fense Louis Johnson. METHODIST PICNIC ON NEXT TUESDAY Members and friends of the Meth- . odist church will have a special social event on Tuesday, June 19. The program will begin as the peo- ple gather at the. church at 5:50 for loading and departing for the Auk Bay recreation area. There the church families will enjoy an old- fashioned picnic with their friends. ( Committees have been set up to handle arrangements concerning ! transportation and food and enter- tainment. In case of bad weather the potluck picnic will be held in the church bdkement. CAPT. ANDERSON HERE Capt. J. C. Anderson of Anchor- age is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. ging “the” Ropedn “wir “to a mpt and victorious end.” SOLDIERS FINED, SENTENCED JAIL FOR CARIBOU KiLL Two Army personnel were picked up in Fairbanks, Donald L. Gray and James L. Emery, and were fined $500 each and sentenced to three months in jail by U. 8. Commission- er Clinton Stewart for the recent slyghter of foup caribou. The incident caused great con- sternation among residents of the Fairbanks area about two weeks ago as three of the caribou were females with unborn calves. Their bodies were left lying beside the road on the Steese highway. The Fairbanks News-Miner spon- sored a public subscription for in- formation leading to the arrest of the guilty persons, which, at last report was near $1,000. Dan Ralston, supervisor of law enforcement, in a telephone call from Fairbanks late yesterday after- noon learned of the soldiers’ arrest but no details of how it was ac- complished will be known to his office until the reports are received. W. C. KERNS HERE W. C. Kerns, Lytle and Green superintendent at Haines, is stay- ing at the Baranof Hotel. He re- ports that a road paving job there has been completed ahead of sched- ule and ' the equipment is being moved out now. o o 0o 0 0 0 . . . WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:30 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 48; minimum, 43. At Airport — Maximum, 50; minimum, 44 FORECAST Cloudy with rain, lowest temperature near 44 degrees tonight, becoming mostly cloudy with rain showers and highest temperature near 54 Sunday. Southeasterly winds as high as 25 miles per hour tonight and Sunday morn- ing. PRECIPITATION ¢ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today ® City of Juneau — 21 inches; ge0ceccccssscsccccscssccccce MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition PRICE TEN CENTS Old Soldlers greeted by his former commander, estimated at 20,000 persons. Meel Again Gen. Jonathan Wainwright (left), hero of Corregidor, is warmly Gen. Douglas MacArthur in front of the capital at Austin, Tex., where MacArthur addressed a crowd It was the General's first stop in his current tour of several Texas cities. ## Wirephoto. New Pel Wil Sandra Shenehon, 8, of Minne- apolis, hugs “Goldle,” 3 year old terrier that is doing its best to take the place of Sandra’s dog “Cookie,” killed by a @og poisoner. Cookie died in a dog hospital. Goldie, expert in lots of tricks, was given to Sandra by a little girl who read of her sorrow. (P Wirephoto. MEDAL OF HONOR FOR MAN WOUNDED ”IMES 1 BATILE WASHINGTON, June 15—(®— A 22-year old private, wounded four times in a single battle, has won the Medal of Honor for gallantry in Korea. He died of his wounds. Pfc. Robert H. Young of Vallejo, Calif., refused medical ald for three separate wounds before the fourth put him out of the fight. His unit, part of the 8th Regiment of the Pirst Cavalry Division, was in the van of a United Nations at- tack last Oct. 9. Young died Nov. 5. His fathér, Melvin D. Young, Vallejo, will receive the Medal June 21 from Gen. Omar Bradiey, Chair- man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Private Young's two sisters and two brothers will attend the cere- mony. They are Mrs. John F. Page, Mrs. Dorothy F. Dagen and James D. Young, al of Vallejo, and Ser- geant First Class John D. Young, who will come from Fort Richard- son in Alaska. FOUND GUILTY OF ASSAULT AND BATTERY Billy C, Caplett, negro messman from the freighter Cynthia Olson now in port, was found guilty of assault and battery by a City Magis- trate court this morning, was fined $100 and given a 30-day suspended sentence, He was charged with an WORK SIOPPAGE PAN AMERICAN, CANCELS FLIGHT NEW YORK, June 16 — (M —On¢ overseas flight was cancelled anc others delayed today in & work stop- A.lrwnys zround urv ce | the compfiny as “an illegal comruct“ breaking strike” — delayed about 250 passengers on six Europe-bound flights yesterday. A transfer of heavy maintenance work to the airline’s main overhaul base at Miami, Fla,, was blamed for the dismissals. TWU demands the reinstatement of the 89 mechanics and the transfer back to New York of the heavy maintenance work. TRAINED PERSONNEL GIRL SCOUT CAMP With Director Mildred Kershner heading the list of trained person- nel for the Girl Scout summer camping, it is believed an excep- tionai Eagle river program will be ofiered this year. However local women are urged to volunteer as assistants. As it was impossible to find a nurse in Juneau who could attend camp, Miss Kershner is brlnglng a school nurse, Asta Ostlerid, *from San Diego who is in the naval re- serve and subject to call at any time. She spent the past summer in Europe. ' Trained leaders accompanying Miss Kershner are Dorothy Arnold, recent graduate of San Diego State college, physical education teacher in Los Angeles; who'has counseled in Dan Diego and Big Basin girl scout camps. Eleanor Sherman, graduate Carl- ton College, Minnesota; traveled with youth hostels in Europe and helped reconstruct youth Hostels; student &t Sorbonne, France and U. of Oslo; Margaret Shaw, teacher in San Diego. e A A R FILIPINO AUXILIARY TO HOLD DANCE ON SUNDAY, JUNE 17 The Filipino Community Auxil- iary will hold a dance at Pa Hall on the evening of June 17, be- ginning at 8 o'clock. There will be different contests that promise fun for all, the com- mittee announced, and the publie is cordially invited to attend. A small admission will be char- ged. i ON BUYING TRIP Kenneth Alberlson of the B. M. Behrends store, expected to leave today for Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles on a buying trip for the store. He will be gone about 10 days. Howard Stabler, Juneau attorney will accompany Ieonty, Primate of all Russian-Greek Catholic chur- ches in North America, on a flight | attack upon Sadle White yesterday morning at the Goldstein cabins. lto Sitka this afternoon. * Pacific Coast Shipping Strike Now Underway LI LA B RADIOMEN HOLD OUT, WAGES UP Négofiation;flpofléd Go- ing On; Korean Mili- fary Cargoes Loaded SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 —P— A Pacific Coast shipping strike — affecting all but essential military cargoes — began early today after the breakdown of negotiations be- tween the CIO American Radio As- soclation and the Pacific Maritime Association, Negotiations, touch and go all evening, were extended more than an hour.past the midnight strike deadline at the personal request of Federal Conciliator Omar Hosking, but failed to reach a settlement. Said Philip O’Rourke, vice presi- dent of the Radio Operators’ union: “They gave us an offer. We count- ered. They refused to contact their board of directors with our counter- offer. We were willing to negotiate all night but now the strike is on.” Although only some 300 radio op- erators are represented by the un- ion, they wield critical weight in ship operhtions. Under maritime law, no ship can sail without them. Pickets To Be Placed O'Rourke said pickets will. be placed immediately at all ships tied 4p on ‘West Coast ports, but that ors would continue to earrying supplies to K A monm They ako are seeking m— lerment of working conditions and contend radiomen ashore get high- r pay and work fewer hours, On East, Gulf Ports The trouble extended to east coast and gulf ports. The seamen in the Atlantic and gulf coast ports did not talk about a “strike” but shippers wondered if any would sail without a contract, Joseph Curran, president of the CIO National Maritime union, said: “I expect our men will not sail ships, because they haveno contract. I know I wouldn’t.” The contract expired at midnight last night. Curran and other union officials refused to use the words “strike,” “tie-up” or “stoppage.” Negotiations Despite the radio operators strike, negotiations seemed to be proceed- ing towards settlements jn other west coast maritime union con- tracts. Hoskins last night announced that the Independent Marine Firemen's union had agreed to a 15-day ex- tension of their contract and the CIO Marine Engineers had agreed to a 30-day extension of theirs. The two unjons scheduled talks with PMA negotiators for today. n Working And members of the Independent Internationil Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen'’s union met here last night and approved a 20-cent hour- ly wage-pension “package” pay in- erease offered by the PMA. Five cents will be added to wages, with 15 cents agplied to the union pen- sion fund. An ILWU spokesman said long- shoremen will continue work on a day-to-day basis until the contract is formally ratified. (OURT ADJOURNS UNTIL SA., JULY 7 U S. District Court adjourned this morning until Saturday, July 1. Judge George Folta is leaving to- morrow via Pan American plane for Santa Barbara, California, to attend a judicial conference of U. S. District Court judges of the 9th Circuit. In Court action this morning Guy D. Gibson was granted a divorce from Mary Jane Gibson. Both are from Ketohikan. FROM ABERDEEN, WASH. Mrs. W. H, Tucker and Mrs. Helen Moore of Aberdeen, Wash. are sight- seeing in Juneau. They are stay- ing at the Baranof Hotel and planned to go to Taku Lodge today. * S B Y ¥ FROM SITKA Mr. and Mirs. Clyde Franks of isnkn are at the Baranof Hotel.