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PARDON SECRECY
Attorney- General Herbert Brownell, Jr., recently
announced that all pardons and commutations of sen
tences granted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
will be given full publicity. The names of persons
recommending pardons or commutations will also be
open to inspection by Congress, the press and others
who have a legitimate interest, according to the at
torney general.
The new policy is basically different from that
followed by former President Truman, who granted
26 pardons and two commutations of sentence in the
period between the election and the inauguration of
President Eisenhower. Of the 26 pardons, seven were
granted without any recommendation for clemency
from the Department of Justice’s Pardon Attorney,
Daniel M. Lyons, Mr. Brownell pointed out.
The Eisenhower policy will be applauded by most
Americans, who can see nothing objectionable in nor
mal publicity on pardons. While complete secrecy was,
of course, impossible under any President, the new
policy is appropriate and removes a cloak of secrecy
which would be used as a cover for mixing politics
with pardons, if any President were susceptible to such
pressure.
Ike to Get Golf Weekend i
WASHINGTON, W*— President;
Eisenhower will leave tomorrow
afternoon for a long weekend of
golf at Augusta, Georgia.
The White House, announcing
this Tuesday, said the President
will return to Washington Sunday.
He will stay at the Augusta
National Golf Club, where he
spent some time after his election
last November. He will fly down
for the weekend.
The President got in seven
hours of golf and relaxation at
the Burning Tree Club Monday,
the third time he has played this
nearby Maryland course since he
entered the White House.
WASHINGTON, UP) — A loy
alty check on each of the 1,800
Senate employes was recommend
ed to the Senate today by its
Rules Committee.
Inventory Blanks at Nome Nugget
Ipalook Asks Road to
Solve Drinking Water
Problem in Kotzebue
JUNEAU, (ff) — Sen. Percy Ipa
look has introduced a memorial
asking territorial officials to build
a road to solve the drinking water
problem of his home town of
Kotzebue.
The petition sets forth thdt “the
water supply in the immediate
vicinity of Kotzebue has been con
demned by territorial health auth
orities as unsafe for human con
sumption, and test drilling for a
new supply in the vicinity has
failed to produce any satisfactory
results.”
The memorial says there is »
good source at Sadie Creek, which
could be tapped by construction
of a seven-mile road at an esti
mated cost of $55,000. It asks the
board of road commissioners and
the highway engineer to under
take the project.
Clem Tillman Wins
Dog Sled Race in
8 Honrs, 21 Min.
ANCHORAGE, Iff) — Clem Till
man, Knik homesteader, won the
Alaska sled dog racing champion
ship Monday, mushing his team
across the finish line of the fourth
tap to the cries of “You got the
dog food, Clem.”
Just before Tillman shoved off
on the fourth 25-mile lap, he re
ceived a telegram from neighbors
and friends at Knik and nearby
Wasilla promising him 200 pounds
of dog food if he captured the title.
He was grinning widely as he
started out with his eight - dog
team over the weather-softened
course, and was all smiles again
at the finish.
Tillman was presented the A1
Fox trophy, a cash award of
$1,000, and a fur parka at the
annual awards banquet Monday
night.
His total elapsed time for the
four- day, 100-mile race was 8
hours, 21 minutes, 46 seconds. The
soft, mushy snow on the trail
slowed the racers, with the win
ning time being more than an
hour over that posted by last
year’s champion, Gareth Wright
of Fairbanks. Wright retired from
racing before the 1953 event.
Behind Tillman was Earl Mor
ris, 8:28.0, who also finished sec
ond last year; Dick Mitchell, 8:
37.24; Joe Wells, 9:12.13, and
Charles Maclnnes, 9:16.
“Voice” Chief Suspended
For Disregarding Order
Forbidding Red Material
WASHINGTON, OP)— The State
Department yesterday suspended
the chief of its Voice of America
broadcasting division. It said he
disregarded an order forbidding
use of material from Communist
and fellow traveler writers.
The official was Alfred H. Mor
ton, chief of the International
Broadcasting Service, at New
York.
Assistant Secretary of State
Carl McCardle said Morton sent
a memorandum to other Voice
officials expressing disagreement
with the order against using mat
erials from Communist sources.
This order was issued Feb. 19
after a Senate inquiry developed
that the Voice policy of permitting
quotation, under some circum
stances, from such writers as Nov
elist Howard Fast.
Fast, who has frequently been
praised by Moscow, refused to
testify in the inquiry, conducted
under the chairmanship of Sen.
McCarthy (R-Wis), whether he
was a Communist.
Sen. Bridges (R-NH) meanwhile
called for a full investigation of
a Voice request for nearly four
million dollars to equip a ship for
beaming broadcasts behind the
Iron Curtain.
LACHLAN MacDONALD IS NEW
ANG RECRUITING OFFICER
HD Q., ALASKA NATIONAL
GUARD, Juneau, Feb. 20—Lach
lan MacDonald has assumed the
duties of recruiting officer for the
Alaska National Guard, Col. Larry
Johnson, adjutant general of the
Guard in Alaska announced today.
MacDonald will direct coordi
nation of recruiting activities by
Guard units throughout the terri
tory. The Alaska National Girard,
famed tor the colorful “Eskimo
Scouts,” is currently entering on
a period of expansion. Enlistments
are now being accepted by present
units in many Alaska towns where
residents are now unable to join
the Guard.
The War in Korea
Tuesday
SEOUL, UP)—Allied tank and in
fantry raiders, trapped and vir
tually surrounded by a Chinese
Red ambush, blasted their way
back to U.N. lines on the Korean
western front early Tuesday after
a bitter, five-hour fight.
The confused, heavy fighting
thundered until shortly before
dawn. The U.S. Eighth Army re
ported the Allied raiding team
killed an estimated 60 Commu
nists and wounded at least 40—
more than half of the Red force.
The Eighth Army said the fight,
which began southeast of Pan
munjom, was the most savage of
several skirmishes that crackled
along the freezirig, 155-mile bat
tleline.
Up to 175 Chinese in quilted
uniforms surrounded the Allied
raiding party shortly after it had
occupied an outpost. The Allied
raiders included about 40 foot
soldiers and an undisclosed num
ber of tanks.
Withering Communist mortar
and machinegun fire pinned down
the infantry and disabled two
tanks.
A few hours before dawn the
raiders broke through the circle
of Chinese and smashed their way
back to their own lines, bringing
one disabled tank with them.
Wednesday
SEOUL, UP) — U.S. Sabre jet
pilots today destroyed two Com
munist MIG-15 jets in air battles
over North Korea, the U.S. Fifth
Air Force reported.
Allied fighter-bombers smacked
a group of factory buildings only
a few miles south of the Man
churian border, not far from the
oft-bombed Suiho power plants.
Other U.N. warplanes hit troop
and supply cents in North Korea.
In blazing ground action, Allied
raiders slammed into Communist
positions near Panmunjom in a
two-pronged attack at dawn and
blasted and burned the Red de
fenders in a fierce- one - hour
battle.
Navy ships blasted Red posi
tions along the east coast. Big
guns of the battleship Missouri
ripped up 450 yards of railroad
tracks. The cruiser Los Angeles
pumped 75 rounds into an inland
supply area and destroyed four
supply shelters and three build
ings, the Navy said1.
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Germ Warfare
Charges are Bunk,
Gen. Clark Asserts
TOKYO, Japan, —Gen. Mark
Clark Tuesday blasted Communist
propagandists for their “f a n
tnstic and utterly false charges”
about U. N. germ warfare and
angrily accused the Reds of ex
torting “confessions” from cap
tured Americans.
The U.N. Far East commander
said in a statement the Reds ap
parently have revived germ war
fare charges to hide their failure
to cope with expected new epi
demics in war-ravaged North
Korea.
The blistering denunciation was
inspired by renewed germ charges
by Red China’s official Peiping
radio. Sunday the radio sparked
its news propaganda drive with
an alleged 6,000-word confession
by a captured Marine pilot. The
flier, Col. Frank H. Schwable of
Arpington, Va., was quoted as
saying the U.S. joint chiefs of
staff had ordered a “contamina
tion belt” strewn across Red
Korea.
Allied officials usually ignore
such broadcasts. But, declared
Clark:
“Lest silence regarding it be
misinterpreted in any way, I feel
under compulsion to denounce the
word-warring Peiping radio’s la
test attempt to revive the totally
baseless and totally discredited
allegations that the United Na
tions command has engaged in so
called germ warfare.
“Instead of the meaningless jar
gon of pseudo-scientists, it now
introduces incredible statements
linked with the names of cap
tured American personnel.”
Constitutional Amendment
To Limit Income Tax
CHICAGO, (ff)— A proposed Con
stitutional amendment to set a
25 percent ceiling on income taxes
is favored by the American Bar
Association.
The association’s policy-making
group, the House of Delegates,
Monday approved by voice vote
the proposed amendment.
The amendment specifies Con
gress could exceed the 25 percent
ceiling only if two-thirds of the
members of each house concur. If
it is exceeded, the amendment
specifies that the tax spread be
tween the highest and lowest rates
should not exceed 15 percent.