Col. Carl Hatch
Retires as C.O.
Of The A.C.S. .
SEATTLE — Col. Carl Hatch,
who planned and set up the or
ganization for the future incor
poration of Alaska’s tele-com
munications system as a self-sus
taining industry of the 49th state,
retired ■ September 30 as com
manding officer of the U.S. Army
Alaska Communications System.
The Signal Corps officer was
honored at a retirement paarde
at Fort Lewis, Wash., on. Sept. 30
at 11 a.m. He was presented with
an Oak Leaf Cluster to his Legion
of Merit by Brig. Gen. W. M.
Thames, special assistant to the
chief sigan lffo.g2bdOjImuni
chief signal officer for combat
surveillance.
The citation awarding the Oak
Leaf Cluster to the Legion of
Merit to Col. Hatch stated:
“Col. Hatch is awarded the Oak
Leaf Cluster for exceptionally
meritorious conduct in the per
formance of outstanding services
as commanding officer of the U.S.
Army Alaska Communication
System 18 July 1956 to 30 Sep
tember 1959.”
Col. Hatch entered active fed
eral service as a 1st lieutenant in
the field artillery in 1940 with
the Wisconsin National Guard’s
32d Division, having entered the
Wisconsin National Guard as a j
private in 1923. In 1941 he trans
ferred to the U.S. Army Signal I
Corps.
His military career includes ser- J
vice with the Signal Corps RTC \
at Fort Monmouth, N. J., and j
Army Communications Service of 1
the office of the chief signal of- j
ficer. He served as communica- !
tions officer, Atomic Bomb Test, j
Eniwetok Atoll; joint communi
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i Strikes Idle More Than
Million Across Nation
WASHINGTON, UPi — Here’s a
i brief summary of strikes that
have more than a million idle
across the nation:
Steel: Estimated 500,000 steel
workers and 200,000 workers in
allied indsutries idle.
Dockworkers: 85,000 longshore
men idle in ports froqa Maine to
Texas. Deadlock indicates strike
will last at least two weeks.
Meatpacking: More than 17,000
Swift & Co. workers out.
Nonferrous metals: More than
30,COO workers idle, mainly in
western copper, lead and zinc
mines and process - fabricating
plants.
Ship repair: About 15,000 work
ers idle in yards from San Fran
cisco north to Canada.
Glass: 2,000 moldmakers idle in
glass container industry.
Automobile: More than 21,000
Chrysler workers idle in Ohio,
Michigan and Indiana because of
walkout at Winsburg, Ohio,
stamping plant.
Smaller walkout would add an
other couple hundred thousand
to the nation’s strike-idle total.
j cations officer, Yalta Conference;
| signal officer of the USARPAC;
White Sands Proving Ground;
and Fourth Army; and was dep
uty director of communications
. division, Eucom, before taking
command of ACS He received his
regular Army commission as a
colonel in 1952.
Col. Hatch was awarded the
Bronze Star; Army Commenda
tion Ribbon; American Campaign
Medal; European. Africa and
Middle East Campaign Medal;
American Defense Service Medal;
World War II Victory Medal;
World War II Occupation Medal;
and the Reserve Medal, in addi
tion to the Legion of Merit.
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Californian Brings
Back Whoppers
From Alaska Trip
SEATTLE, Ufi — A couple of
trail pals back from the Yukon
and northward dropped into town
Friday, plunked down their poke
and told their tale.
Mrs. Robert Sawyer of Hemet,
Calif., the “trail boss,” said she
lost some 10 pounds in 13 days
on the trail from Seattle to Circle;
Alaska, northernmost point on the
North American continent.
North American continent acces
sible by road. It was painless, too
—she drove by auto.
Her companion, Mrs. Natalie
Best of Los Angeles, told of drink
ing moose milk cocktails and eat
ing sourdough canapes at a White
Horse, Y.T., party.
Seems life on the trail isn’t
what it used to be. The two
women, winners in a national
trade promotion stunt, stopped
every night in comfortable motels.
They were wined and dined by
Chambers of Commerce in Alaska
and the Boards of Trade of Can
ada.
“People simply couldn’t have
been any friendlier,” said Mrs.
Sawyer, who won out over 10,000
etnrants in a national contest to
select the best woman driver for
the 2,500-mile trip. She said she
was also surprised to find how
smartly dressed, coiffured and in
formed the women of the North
land’s interior are.
The girls supplied a whopper
or two to brighten up their story,
all in the tradition of the north,
of course. For example, there was
That 39-pound trout we ate at
Burwash Landing. Yes, really, 39
pounds ...”
Police Use Real Jewelry
Salesman as Bait For
Trio of Thieves
DETROIT, —Jewelry sales
man Frank Gentile, 32, of Cleve
land, breathed easier after FBI
agents and police nabbed three
men who had been trailing him
and his $50,000 worth of jewels
for four days.
Detective Insector William H.
Ford said the three are “known
as jewel thieves across the
country.”
Gentile had told the FBI Tues
day he thought he was being fol
lowed. He was instructed to keep
visiting ustomers as usual.
And so he did—tagged by three
strangers in a car who were in
turn trailed by police and FBI
men.
“It was quite a procession”
Ford said.
The game ended Friday. Gen
tile placed his sample case of
diamonds, pearls, watches and
other jewelry in the trunk of his
car while he had lunch in a
restaurant.
Ford said one of the men got
out of a car nearby, walked to
Gentile’s, opened it with a key
and drove away.
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LAKE TRAGEDY IN FINLAND
HELSINKI, Finland, W — Fif
teen persons were drowned in
heavy fog Sunday on their way to
the town of St. Michel, in south
Finland, to celebrate the feast day
of the town’s patron saint.
Their motorboat collided with
another boat at Lake Peilisjervi
and was cut in two. The 21 per
sons aboard were tumbled into
the water. Only six were saved.
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State Dept. Nixes
Report of Cold
War Settlement
WASHINGTON, UP—The State
Department has thrown cold
water on a Berlin report that
President Eisenhowe and Soviet
Premier Khrushchev laid the
groundwork for a settlement of
the Berlin problem in their talks
last weekend. ,
Lincoln White, State Depart
ment press officer, said Friday
he had no formal comment on the
report in the West Berlin news
paper Telegraf. But he referred
reporters to President Eisenhow
er’s statement at his Monday
news conference and to a speech
Friday by Asst. Secretary of
State Berding. White said he
thought these statements covered
the ground fully.
Eisenhower said at the news
conference that any Berlin agree
ment with the Soviets would have
to be subject to the approval of
the people of West Berlin.
Berding in effect reaffirmed
the U.S. foreign policy that it in
tends to keep military forces in
West Berlin until Germany is
unified. The United States has the
right to do this, he said, deriving
from the World War II victory
over Germany.
In spite of U.S. assurances to
West Germany that there has
been no change in U.S. policy on
Berlin, there remains a wide
spread impression in Europe that
the Eisenhower administration is ,
in the process of revamping its
position on Berlin.
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