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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,976 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1951 GROUND FIGHTING IN KOR MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Mayor Hendrickson Outlines Sireet Improvement Program; Location Maps Out Thursdq Colored maps showing the loca-%— tions of proposed street improve- ments in Juneau will be on display Thuresday in downtown business house show windows, Mayor Waino Hendrickson announced today. The purpose is to acquaint vot- ers with the areas where improve- ments are planned. The proposi- tion of a bond issue for this pur- pose will be presented to the voters at a special election to be held | December 6. An application is being presented to Alaska Public Works to put up Dance fo Honor Members of Guard At 1st Encampment Members of the 208th Infantry Battalion - (Sep) of the Alaska Na- tional Guard attending the first encampment of the organization will be honored by a dance in the Elks ballroom Saturday night. The dance will conclude the Gov- ernor’s Day activities of the bat- talion. “The hall is being donated by the Elks and music is to be furnished by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post. Special enter- tainment for the evening will begin at 9:45 o'clock and will include the O'Reillys from the Pamaray Club, Joheny and Leonard from the Bars anof Bubbie Room and a special dancing act by the Skinners. Highlight of the evenmg will be presentation of an award to the winning «rill team who will give an exhibiicn. Master of cere- monies for tae evening will be Ross Wheeler. Young ladies of Juneau are in- vited since most of the guardsmen will be without partners. There will be no admission charge and it is hoped that all of Juneau will at- tend the dance and give the guards- men a welcome to the Capital City. L i FROM SEATTLE George Oswald and Bill Clayton! of Seattle are registered at the Baranof Hotel. Ship Movements Alaska scheduled to arrive south- bound sometime Sunday afternoon or evening. Baranof ‘scheduled fo sail-from Seattle Friday. Freighter Yukon Princess sched-| uled ‘to arrive southbound from | Skagway sometime Sunday. Freighter ‘ Flemish ‘Knot due to arrive from Seattle on Friday morn- ing. The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Copy=ight, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON — The same House committee that has been proving tax scandals lately, tried to disprove one the other day. How- ever, the public and press were barred, as the committee began a ticklish investigation of its own chajrman—Congressman Cecil King, | California Democrat. The purpose was to spike rumors | that King had intervened in a tax | investigation of - four Long Beach,‘ Calif., business associates—Thomas | A. Gregory, John D. Wilhoit, Clif- ton S. Jones and Charles J. Jones. Under sharp, often heated question- ing, the witnesses agreed that they knew of no pressure from King to block the tax cases. However, at! least one witness charged that King | had used his Congressional influ- ence on Gregory's side in a $30,- 000,00 lawsuit. Believing. Congressman King's conduct Should be as opem to pub- lic scrutiny as the tax collectors he is investigating, -thig column has obtained a play-by-play account of the closed-door hearing. Sharpest clash was between Ad- rain De Wind, King’s chief counsel, and Philip H. Angell, former presi- | dent of the California State Bar | connecting streets below E; | stock today is 3, | | 50 percent of the proposed $400,000 improvement program “One important reason for try- ing to get this work done next ‘Hendrickson explained, Washingfon Synod | Schedules 1952 Meefing in Alaska SEATTLE, Nov. 28—(®—The Pres- Lyterian Synod of Washington state | | | | will hold its 1952 session in Alaska, afloat, if the Synod’s nine | yteries approve. | The Synod’s general council ap- | proved the plan here yesterday, and | relayed it to the Presbyteries for action. Two of the Presbyteries are in Alaska and seven in Washington. Spokane had been named prev- | and Pr British Buck on BigPad STRASBOURG, France, Nov. 28 —{M—Britain indicated today she would not take a direct part in the projected European army, but in- sisted she had not yet made up her mind finally. A French spokesman aid that Britain’s implied rejee- calling for bids on paving on the |jously as the meeting place. The | tion of the European army would Glacier Highway and Douglas road on December 14. Saving For City “If the City can call for bids| at the same time on its program, a considerable saving can be ef-| fected in costs. The BPR paving project may be the last one in this | area for some time and the cost| of moving in paving Bquipment‘ for similar jobs is expensive,” he | said. The program consists of street paving, sewer and drainage in- stallations, retaining walls, concrete sidewalks and resurfacing of exist-| ing paving where it«is necessary. | Plans call for $50,000 worth of | street drains, retaining walls and | concrete sidewalks prepartory to| paving. A $35,000 allotment will al- low sewer installations, mainly in| the Highland area and upper Seat- | ter Tract on Evergreen Avenue. If the Alaska Public Works ap- plication is approved and funds are available, additional paving will be | done in the Seatter Tract, Star Hill District, Basin Road, Gastineau Avenue and lower South Franklin Street. Costs | If Federal funds ave available the} total cost to the City of Juncau will not exceed $200,000, Hendrick- son said. However, if they cannot be obtained, the original street im- provement program is estimated to cost the city $287,000. Proposal No. 2 on which the vot- ers will pass, will permit issuing| $287,000 in bonds to be retired with revenues irom the City Sales and Sefvice tax. Approval will permit the paving of all streets ‘where underground utilities are in place, Hendrickson | said. “This will give all sections | of the city an equitable share of | the improvements,” he pointed out. Locations streets now ready for Willoughby Avenuei | Gravel paving are: and boat harbor district:s Thlinket Drive through the Chan- nel Apartments; West Eighth add Ninth Streets| J Street near the new grade school; Harbor Way from West Twelfth Street to the Northern Commer- cial Co.; Trwin Street from Harbor Way to the Highway og the northwest| side of the new grade school. Casey Shattuck Addition: Capitol Avenue from Calhoun to Eighth Street near the power plant; Eleventh Street from Capitol Av- enue to ‘Gold Creek in front of the| Evergreen Apartments; D Street and West Seventh Street near the Government Hospital. Seatter Tract: v Spruce Street from the Hi to Seatter Street; Seatter Street, Spruce to Ever- green Avenue. Highlands Area: Behrends Avenue and connecting streets to the Highway. Central District: Gold Street from Six! Streets; % Eighth Street from Gold to Basin Road; Kennedy Street. Streets previously pave surfaced: South Franklin Street; Second Street—Maine to Frank- lin; Third Street—Main to Franklin; Sections of Main, Seward am‘lJ Franklin Streets. i Stock Quofations ghway h to Eighth d to be re- NEW YORK, Nov. 28—(P—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine American Can 108%, American Tel. and Tel. 156%, Anaconda 48%, Douglas Aircraft 56%, General Electric 55%, General ‘Motors 49%, Goodyear 41%, Ken- necott 85%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 58%, Standard Oil of California 49%%, Twentieth Century Fox 21%, U. é Steel 39%, Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange 96.25. 5 Sales today were 1,150,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 258.64, rails 7932, util- (Continued on Page 4} | ask him té do so. { (D-Ark) and former Secretary of | Senator Taft (R-Ohio) change was proposed to give Alaska more recognition in the Synod. The plan calls for sessions May 28 to June 4 aboard the Canadian Steamship Prince George. Delegates would have a chance to visit church missions in Alaskan ports. Pressure On Caudle | | i | upset plans for creation of the supernational force and threaten West German integration in west- ern European defenses. Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, Home Minister of Britain's Conservative government, told the European Consultative Assembly here that Prime Minister Churchill will com- | mit Britain at this time to no more than “closest association” with the European army or the Schuman coal-steel pool plan, [ Later, at a news conference, however, Maxwell-Fyfe said “the door is not yet closed and my state- ments should not be interpreted as a refusal to cooperate.” Apparently, however, the French delegation took the Briton's words to mean refusal. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—(®—T. Lamar Caudle testified today that| members of Congress and other in- | fluential persons put “tremendous | pressures” on him to drop prosecu- | tion of tax effenders while he was | head of the Justice Department’s tax division. | Caudle, recently fired from h151 post as Assistant Attorney General | by President Trumian, told House | investigators: ¥ “There were requests for confer- ences by honorable people—continu- ously calling you up-—continuously contending you made a mistake by | ordering prosecutions.” | Caudle didn't name any of those him. Nor did the House Ways and Menas subcommittee investigating the nationwide income tax scandals The witness said among those who came to his office or who telephoned him about tax cases were Senators, Congressmen, presidents of organizations and others of sim- | jlar stature. “Every time sameonei walked in that door, they wanted something,” he said. “They were honorable men and they wanted | action.” He said they were “men in public life, men who_would insist that con- stituents of theirs were innocent.” The question came up when com- mittee counsel Adrian W. De Wind said he felt the public should know more about the force of the pres- sures on Caudle. Caudle testified today his wife cbtained a mink coat through a New York tax lawyer—and that so did the wives of Senator McClellan the Army Kenneth Royall. Caudle said the three mink coats were obtained at “less than full price” by Jacob Landau, New York tax attorney, through his “connec- tions.” 4 Caudle testified earlier that he | was subjected to “tremendous pres- sures” in the Justice Department post, from members of Congress | and other influential persons inter- ceding for accused tax law violators. ‘He firmly denied, however, that anyone tried to influence him im- properly. Taft Describes "Utterly False’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 28— (9 — describes as “utterly false” any suggestion “py Joe Ferguson or anyone else” | that Ohi6 Republicans and Demo- | crats struck a deal to re-elect Dem- | ocratic Gov. Frank J. Lausche last| | year. | Joseph T. Ferguson, Ohio State Auditor, told a Senate Elections subcommittee yesterday he believ- led “there was a deal” involved in Lausche's re-election over the Re- publican candidate, Don Ebright “got a dirty deal from the Republi- e ¥ . Ebright lost to Lausche while most of the Republican ticket in ©Ohio was winning. JUNEAU VISITORS William Crooks and Russell E. Dahl of Portland, Ore., are at the ities 45.91. Baranof Hotel. | United States. The Marshal Reds Refuse Vital Points For Armistice - MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 28—(M— Communist truce negotiators flatly refused, today to ban military buildups in Korea during an armis- {who had said sought to influence |tice or to set up joint inspection teams to police the truce. The Red stand let Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief negotiator for the United Nations Command, to express suspicion the Reds might be planning to resume fighting after a temporary truee. Joy told newsmen “the Com- munists came out in the open and' said they were completely opposed to .eur principles” for inspection teams and guarantees against mili- tary buildups. “They Lrought up the question of withdrawal of foreign troops,” Joy reported. “They said that with | withdrawal of foreign troops” the | problem “would: be settled.” “You see what we are up against?” the admiral asked. Tito Unofficially invited to Visit 'In United Sfates BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. 28 —(P—A group of American Cong- ressmen unofficially invited Prem- ier Marshal Tito today to visit the said the “press of duties” prevented him from accepting at this time, but that he looks forward to such a trip in the future, The invitation was made by Rep. Celment J. Zablocki (D-Wis), mem- ber of the U. S. House Foreign Af- fairs subcommittee which is visit- ing here on a European fact-find- ing tour. Democratic Caucus At Moose Hall Tonight N The Democratic caucus, to elect delegates to attend the divisional convention in_ Sitka, December 13, will start at 8 o'clock tonight in| the Moose lodge hall. Registered Democrats are eligible as delegates to the Sitka conven- tion, and eligible to vote at the caucus for delegates. X-RAY MAN IS HERE B. Martinses of the General Elec- tric X-ray department from Seattle is at the Baranof Hotel. HERE FOR CAMP Cpl. John Mann and Pfc. Lachlan P. MacDonald from the U.S. Army public information office at Ft Richardson arrived yesterday o0 PNA from Anchorage in connection with an assignment on the Alaska National Guard encampment being held here. . Six Newsmen Blistered by M'Arthur Aide Gen. Willoughby Says Korea Correspondents ‘Biased and Prejudiced’ NEW YORK, Nov. 28—(®P—Gen- | eral MacArthur’s former chief of intelligence has accused six news- papermen of “inaccurate, biased and préjudiced” reporting of the Korean war, and charged their writings gaye aid and comfort to the Com- munists. 4 The officer is retired Major Gen- eral Charles A. Willoughby. In an article in the December issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine, which carried a foreward of en- doresment by General MacArthur, Willoughby named the six individ- ual newspapermen and also criti- cized three news-magazines. He said they “appeared to go out of their way to create defeatist thought patterns, and to belittle the coun- try's armed forces.” 8 Newspaper coverage of the war, Willoughby said, may have been the major factor in President Tru- man’s decision to fire Gen. Mac- Arthur. “I am convinced the nuance of defeat created an atmosphere of tension, uneasiness and distrust | beétween Tokyo and ‘Washington. This is believed to have been the major cause of the MacArthur- Truman split.” rp denials immediately came If0in’ the newspaperen wham Wilx loughby identified by name. ‘t'hey | Are: |~ Joseph Alsop, syndicate columnist; {Hanson Baldwin, military corre: pondent of the New York Times; | | Homer Bigart, war correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune; Hal Boyle, war correspondent and columnist of the Associated Press; Drew Pearson, syndicate columnist; and Christopher Rand, former member of the Herald-Triune’s Korea staff, now resigned. Confused Public “During the most difficult days in Korea,” Willoughby wrote, “these men were often inaccurate, biased, prejudiced and petulant; they con- fused an unhappy public. The cor- rosive effect of their irresponsible reporting was equal to that of cal-1 culated defeatism, even as such was not intended. Their reporting fur-| | (d&fiunuefl on fiue 'TWo) . Raid Drill (learsN. Y. Sireefs NEW YORK, Nov. 28—(P—An all-out air raid drill cleared New York’s normally teeming streets of all visible life within two or three minutes today. The shrieking sirens of the first post-war test halted all traffic and sent pedestrians scurrying into nearby buildings .at 10:33 a.m. The “all clear” sounded 10 min- utes later. Times Square, in the heart of the | city, was deserted. Trading on the stock exchange, center of the financial world, came. to a temporary halt. | Skaters on the ice rink at Rocke- | feller Center 'clumped on their| skates into nearby buildings. Office workers in New York's skyscrapers took refuge in inner corridors. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU At Airport: Maximum, 37; Minimum, 27. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with occa- sional light snow tonight and Thursday. Lowest tempera- ture tonight near 28 degrees. ® Highest Thursday around 36 e degrees. R . PRECIPITATION o ® (Past 3¢ hours ending 7:30 a.m. today ® |® At Afrport Trace; ® o since July 1—17.58 inches. . |® 'Were 'Very Useful’ Ousted in Wake 0f Investigation WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — &P — The Truman administration today Looted 31 officials and employees from its scandal-hit tax collecting organization. Top official to get the axe was James G. Smyth, internal revenue collector at San Francisco. He was already under suspension. Smyth's removal by President Truman was announced at Key West, Fla, where the president is visiting. Presidential Secretary Joseph Short said Smyth was fired “for failure to anageé his office properly.” | As a preidential appointee, Smyth could be ousted only by the presi- dent. Within half an hour after the Key West action, James B. Dunlap, Commissioner of Revenue, an- nounced here the, ousting of 30 others part of his drive to elim- inate “unfit” employees. It was the biggest single shake- up since an inyestigation by a House Ways and Means subcom- mittee turned up repeated indica- tions of corruption or inefficiency in many spots' in the federal tax collection service. It brought the total score since| the inquiry to these figures: Three collectors, in charge of re- gional offices, fired. Three others resigned while under investigation. 38 lessor employees fired, and 5| resigned. Dunlap did not announce the| specific charges against the 30 em- ployees he dismissed today but hei seld complete files on all of the cases were being made availeble, to| ‘the House subcommittee, headed by | Rep. King (D-Calif). Dunlap said “disciplinary actions” | less severe than the 30 cases also have been taken against a number of other employees but he did not elaborate., 11 Navy Men | Die as Plane Divesin Sea SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 26—#— A Navy PBM (Martin Mariner) seaplane plunged into the ocean| seven miles west of here yesterday, |source—possibly the White House. ! carrying 11 airmen to their death. It was San Diego’s worst military plane disaster in a decade. In another Southern California plane crash, a B-29 bomber burst into flames near March Air Base, s | but its 13-man crew parachuted to yeached the Communists. They also | safety. | An eyewitness to the PBM crash | said the plane, a two-engined craft, plunged straight downward, hit- | ting the water with a terrific splash’ “It was diving so fast, T thought it was a jet plane” said Donald Hibbard; truck driver. ‘The Navy said the plane, attached to fleet air wing 14, on a routine| trainjng flight from the San Diego | Naval Air Station, broke into pieces when it struck. It did not burn, but soon sank. ‘Three officers and eight enlisted men were aboard. Afomic Energy Head Says Nevada Tests | WASHINGTON, Nov. 28— B — Chairman Gordon Dean of the At-| omic Energy Commission (AEC) said today the atomic weapons tests conducted recently in Nevada prov- ®ed “very useful” in development of the nation’s military might. Dean’s guarded statement to re- porters was his first public com- | ment on the latest series of tests, which he indicated has not been concluded. Six explosions have been caducted, in the series which | |started Oet. 22, ranging from what was apparently a baby A-bomb to | mountain-shaking weapons. The commission chairman was asked whether the tests so far had been generally satisfactory and whether they had advanced the building of this country’s atomic| ersenal. - “Let me put it this way,” Dean replied. “I don't think there has been anything in the Nevada ‘shots’ | (test) that has ever displeased us.” EA IS STOPPED 31 Tax Employees UN Forces Not fo Fire Unless Atfacked: Waich Enemy Is Order Sent Out SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 28— Field dispatches based on Allied officers’ reports .said ground fighting in Korea came to a complete stop today, with only the official announcement lacking to proclaim a cease-fire. Troops of the United Nations, last night and early today, re- ceived orders not to fire at the enemy unless attacked, field dis- patches said. By midafternoon, apparently well aware of the gentlemen's agreement, Chinese soldiers played volley ball in full view of non- shooting American troops. When darkness fell, the Reds abandoned their 18-month black- { out and the twinkling of Com- munist bonfires and the glow of cigarettes marked out the silent 145-mile front. AP Correspondent Milo Farneti reported from the western front that he had seen an order from | US. Eighth Army headquarters to stop fighting. Eighth Army headquarters denied that it issued the order. Farneti said the Allies' stopped fighting immediately the order was received. Only a few rounds of Red artil~ lery, possibly from uninformed guns ners, broke the unnatural stiliness, No Offensive Action Patrols soamed the quiet front under orders to take no offensive action. And in many cases they made no contact. The Eighth ‘Army issued a warn- ing statement that said “there is as of this date, 28 November 1951, no cease-fire in Korea.” This statement was directly con- trary to the facts on the front— facts known to tens of thousands of soldiers and to scores of war correspondents at the front and at headquarters, Farneti quoted a U.S. Third Divi- ' OfliétSA Reporied 'To Have Been Given From Highest Source SEOUL, Kirea, Thursday—(P— Korean ground fighting came to a complete, if temporary, halt Wed- nesday on orders from the highest Field dispatches said orders reach- Allied troops late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning in- structing them not to fire on the enemy unless attacked. The information apparently had stopped fighting. The U. 8. Eighth Army denied ordering a halt to fighting. The whole situation at headquarters bordered on the fantastic. At the same time the combat troops were being told not to fire unless fired on, headquarters information of- ficers and censors pleaded ignor- ance with every evidence of sincer- ity. Big Three Plan On Disarmament ‘Stalled by Russ PARIS, Nov. 28—(®—The western Big Three today formally accepted the Asian-Arab plan for private disarmament talks, but Soviet For- eign Minister Andrei Vishinsky dodged direct appeals to give the Russian answer. With western acceptance, the de- cision on the closed-door discussions lay squarely up to Russia. Observers at the United Nations | General Assembly felt Vishinsky's refusal to give a straight answer meant the Kremlin has not made up its mind whether it wants to get down to brass tacks about rid- ding the world of growing' arms programs. Luis Battle-Berres of Uruguay and Salvador P. Lopez of the Philip- pines, speaking at today's session of the Assembly’s political commit- tee, both appealed to Vishinsky to speak up. They sald it was useless for delegates from little countries to keep on talking about disarma- ment without knowing Russia’s ans- wer, Vishinsky pretended not to know what they were talking about. *» sion officer that Allled ground forces have stopped shooting at the Comunists. “for all practical pur- poses.” Fire Only if Attacked The officer sald an Eighth Army directive told all units on the front not to fire on Reds unless necessary. “We“are not shooting at them | unless they shoot at us,” the officer said. “It will be a period of watch- ful waiting while we see how seri- ous the Communists are about our 30-day cease-fire proposal.” ‘The provisional cease-fire -line is to become the cease-fire line only if negotiators *arrive at complete armistice by Dec. 27. The officer said the Eighth Army order instructed all commanders to “maintain combat effectiveness” to be ready for an Allied offensive in case truce talks stumble. War Not Over ‘The officer said all frontline units have been warned not to relax and that the war is not over, “We are not allowed to send out any more than reconnaissance pa- trols,” he said. “Their mission Is just to scout, not to sttack.” He said the order prohibited offensive air strikes against Red positions on the front. The order restricted artillery to | counter-battery fire. ! “Our men in the companies have been told not to expose themselves unnecessarily,” the officer sald. |“But they have orders to defend attack. “We will be honorable about this | attair,” he sald. “And we hope the Communists will act the same way.” Hold Down Action The order sald the Allles would hold down offensive action on the ground during the 30-day period to i “clearly demonstrate the willing- ness to reach an agreement while preparing for offensive action it negotiations are unreasonably de- layed.” ‘The order instructed that present: main lines “be defended to the maximum.” This meapt Allles could counterattack to regain any posi- i Hons lost to the Reds. Jet Warfare There was nothing to indicate any slackening of jet warfare over Northwest Korea. Three Red MIG-15s and a US. Sabre were knocked out of the sky Wednesday in the second consecu- tive day of jet battles in MIG Alley. This brought the two-day toll of Red planes to seven destroyed and seven damaged. In the same | period the Allies lost two jets in battle and one to Communist ground fire. | Readtion on Front Line fo Orders fo Cuf Ouf Shooting WESTERN FRONT, Korea, Nov. 28—(M—Front line reaction to the agreement on a provisional cease- fire line in Korea ranges from “just fine” to “no confidence.” Sgt. Emanuel Moore, Pittsburgh, Pa., sald his platoon canceled a pa- trol scheduled Wednesday morning. He assumed that was because of the agreement. Moore said he thinks the armistice talks “will work out just fine.” Pfc. Armistice S. Harris, Pinetops, N. C., sald “I think it looks better than it did, but I don’t have any confidence in it because I've been | hearing about peace for more than four months.” Pfc. Ignacio Gonzales, Los An- | geles, said “if they stop, you have a better chance of going home. If they don't you have a chance of staying here for life.” Lt. Donald Truelock, Shelburn, Ind, said he is “very optimistic |about it this time and I think | we're_going fo have an armistice.” NOVEMBER 29 High tide 1:56 a.m., 165 ft. Low tide 7:34 am, 30 ft. High tide 1:35 p.m, 20.0 ft. Low tide LJ o OO R