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THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE
The Scramble Is On
(Daily Alaska Empire)
The names of several prominent Republicans are
being bandied about right now in the speculation about
who will be appointed to the First District judgeship
left vacant by the death June 5 of Judge George W.
Folta. Among those being mentioned are three Juneau
residents: Howard Stabler, R. E. Robertson, and H. L.
Faulkner.
According to a story in the Anchorage Times this
week, the man holding down the front position appears
to be Judge Walter Hodge of Nome, formerly a Cordova
attorney. Judge Hodge is said to 'have the backing of
the Anchorage and Ketchikan Bar Associations. Fourth
Division Judga Vernon D. Forbes of Fairbanks, a new
comer to Alaska, is also said to be seeking the Juneau
post.
Should Judge Hodge be appointed to the $25,000
a-year position, his term will run for the full four
years. The other names on the list would be considered
to fill the Nome post.
The Times said Alaska Native Service Director
William H. Olson, formerly of Anchorage and now
residing here, is also a candidate. Others being consid
ered include Anchorage attorneys John Manders and
Paul R. Robison, and Fairbanks attorney Mike Stepo
vich. The talk is that Stepovich is being endorsed to
fill the Nome judgeship should Judge Hodge land the
Juneau position.
Only one non-Alaskan was named in the Times
story: Seattle attorney Phillip W. Schoel, said to be
endorsed by a delegation of United States senators.
Schoel is reported to be seeking endorsement in Alaska.
While Judge Hodge, on the basis of his endorse
ment by the Anchorage and Ketchikan Bar Associa
tions, would appear a shoo-in for the job, his opposite
number in Fairbanks, Judge Forbes, has some pretty
good backing, too, according to the Times’ sources.
Forbes is said to have the support of Sen. William
Langer of North Dakota, Forbes’ home state. Langer
is ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary
Committee.
All in all, one man’s guess is as good as another’s |
as to who will land the judgeship. But it does look like
a real horse race between Hodge and Forbes—if the
Times’ pipelines hold water, that is.
Alaska Natives
May Now Apply
For Scholarships
COLLEGE—Alaska natives be
tween 17 and 25 years are eligible
for scholarships varying from
$400 to $800 at the University of
Alaska, Mrs. Irene Gardner, reg
istrar, explained today.
The last Legislature passed the
McNabb-Bronson bill which pro
vides $17,000 for the next bien
nium for the scholarships.
The bill defines a native as a
person “who is a descendant of
members of the aboriginal races
inhabiting Alaska when annexed
to the United States, or who is a
descendant of Indians or Eskimos
who, since the year 1867 and prior
to June 30, 1952, migrated into
Alaska from Canada, and who is
such descendant as to have at
least one-quarter blood derived
from such ancestors.”
The university’s board of re
gents may grant 10 new scholar
ships for each academic year.
Mrs. Gardner said applications
for the 1955-56 school year will be
accepted until July 15. Appli
cants should send her office their
secondary school record, a small
photograph, application for ad
mission to the university, a finan
cial statement, two letters of
recommendation (one from a
school official and the other from
parents, guardian or qualified
person), and a handwritten state
ment by the applicant “Why I
want to attend college.”
Scholarship winners may retain
their award and receive free
board and room at the university
as long as they keep up a “C”
grade average or better.
4 Air Force Generals
Get New Assignments
RIVERSIDE, Calif., lift—Four
Air Force generals change assign
ments Aug. 10, the Strategic Air
Command reported Wednesday.
Maj. Gen. Robert Terrill, dep
uty commander, }5th Air Force,
headquartered at March Air Force
Base near here, -becomes director
of operations at SAC headquarters
at Offutt AFB, Omaha, Neb.
Maj. Gen. Walter Sweeney,
commander, 15th Air Force, be
comes commander at 8th Air
Force headquarters, Westover Air
Force Base, Chicopee Falls, Mass.
Maj. Gen. Archie J. Old Jr.,
present director of operations at
Offutt, will become commander of
the 15th Air Force.
And Brig. Gen. Henry K. Moon
ey, now at Lake Charles AFB,
Lake Charles, La., will replace
Terrill as 15th Air Force deputy
commander.
THE THOUGHTFUL THIEF
SPRINGFIELD, 111., UR—Some
body stole all four hubcaps from
William Romack Jr.?s 1955 auto
mobile a couple of nights ago.
But Romack found the hubcaps
Wednesday on the front seat of
his car with this note: “They
don’t fit. You can have them
back. Thanks.” The note wasn’t
signed.
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Senate Subcommittee Blames Peress
Promotion on Errors, Army Red Tape
But Finds No Subversion Involved
Defense Witness Denies
He Signed Harry Bridges
Into Communist Party
SAN FRANCISCO OP)—Bruce B.
Jones, a longshoreman who ac
knowledged seven years of Com
munist Party membership, shout
ed his denial in court that he had
signed longshore leader Harry
Bridges into party membership.
Jones, a defense witness yes
terday in the government’s civil
suit seeking to revoke Bridges’
citizenship, flatly contradicted
testimony by a government wit
ness, John Schomaker, that Jones
signed Bridges as a member in
1933.
“Any statement that I have is
I absolutely untrue,” said Jones, a
member of Bridges International
Longshoremen’s and Warehouse
men’s Union.
I
Schomaker, a former hod car- j
rier and professed Communist
Party member, had testified that
Jones showed him a party card in
1933 which Bridges had signed
with the name “Harry Dorgan.”
Jones also called “absolutely
untrue” Schomaker’s testimony
that Jones had collected party
dues from Bridges.
Sec. Wilson Sets Aside
Money Voted to Boost
Marine Corps Strength
By ELTON C. FAY
QUANTICO, Va., <*V—Money
voted by Congress to boost Marine
Corps strength has been impound
I ed by Secretary of Defense Wilson
while “we take another look.”
Wilson told a news conference
at this Marine £orps base yester
day that he had directed the Pen
tagon comptroller, W. J. McNeil,
to set the extra money aside until
officials decide what will be done.
The administration successful
ly defended in Congress President
Eisenhower’s plan for a cutback
in Army and Navy forces but lost
out to friends of the Marine Corps.
Congress added $46 million to
Defense Department appropria
tions not only to forestall a sched
uled cut but actually to increase
present Marine strength. It was
this money which Wilson ordered
put into a “suspense fund”—rais
ing the. possibility the Marines
will be cut despite Congress’ ac
tion.
Marine Corps strength now
stands at about 205,000 men. The
administration, under its policy
to reduce the size of all armed
services except the Air Force,
ordered a reduction in Marine
strength to 195,000. The Senate,
with House support, voted that
Marine strength should be 115,
000.
s> WASHINGTON MV-The Senate
Investigations subcommittee yes
terday blamed 48 errors and Ar
my red tape—but not subversion
_for the promotion and honor
able discharge of Maj. Irving
Peress after he refused to say
whether he was a Communist.
It said of the Army that Ste
vens, or perhaps some of his Pen
tagon bosses, did “a disservice” to
the country by what • it termed
concealing facts about the case of
the New York dentist for almost
a year. It also accused “the De
partment of the Army” of some
deceptive practices toward Con
gress.
But it made no mention of sub
version in a formal report saying
the case showed “individual er
rors in judgment, lack of proper
coordination, ineffective adminis
tration procedures, inconsistent
application of investigating regu
lations, and excessive delays.”
Army delay in making the facts
public, it said, “served to unduly
arouse and increase suspicions of
the public as to possible Commu
nist influences and thereby was a
disservice ... to the Army as a
whole, to this subcommittee, to
the Congress, and to the general
public.”
One subcommittee member, Sen.
Bender (R-Ohio), refused to sign
the report.
It should have stated flatly, he
contended in a minority report,
that “no Communist influence
was found in the Army.”
It should have stated, Bender
said, that “not one iota of evi
dence” was found to support
charges by Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis)
that some “silent Communist mas
termind” in the Pentagon was in
volved.
The finding of suspicions “un
duly” aroused was the subcom
mittee’s only pronouncement on
the subversion score in the report
signed by its six other members,
McCarthy among them.
The majority report said former
Army Counselor John G. Adams,
who recently resigned, “showed
disrespect for the subcommittee
when he chose to disregard” a
letter from McCarthy the day be
fore Peress got his honorable dis
charge on Feb. 2. 1954.
McCarthy, then the subcommit
tee’s chairman, had been demand
ing that Peress be court-mar
tialed. Adams testified last March
that he had passed up then the
“last clear chance” to block the
discharge.
Envelopes for letters did not
come into use until 1839. Our
forefathers folded letters both
ways, sealed them with wax and
wrote the address on the back.
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