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NO TIME TO WASTE
Chairman Dewey Short, of the House Armed
Services Committee, tells us his group is informed that
the Soviets now have 40,000 military aircraft, and that
the Commies will reach their production peak this
summer. This compares, he says, with 30,000 U.S.
warplanes and that “we are still three years away
from attainment of minimum goals.”
When Dewey Short speaks, the Congress listens,
and the rest of us should too. For the Galena, Missouri,
farm boy who began his working life behind a pair of
jennies epitomizes the statesman that all of us would
like to think is representing us in Washington. Short
is one of the best educated men in Congress. A gradu
ate of four American colleges, he later studied at Berlin,
Heidelberg and Oxford Universities and holds honorary
degrees from three other American institutions. He
was a Methodist minister and a professor of philosophy
before entering politics. He has traveled every quarter
of the globe, and few others in Congress hava his grasp
of world conditions. Yet he is intensely proud of his
Ozark origin, and flavors his erudition with the salty
realism of the mountain people from whom he sprang.
Dewey Short has consecrated his public life to
keeping America strong . . . and keeping Americans
alert to the growing menace of Communism. He tells;
us now “the U.S.S.R. has a fleet of at least 1,000 long-;
range bombers capable of delivering atomic bombs . . .
on the continental United States” and warns that “we
must not delude ourselves that we can match the hordes
of Russia and her satellites man-for-man, gun-for-gun
—or even plane-for-plane.”
“Quality of weapons,” he assures us, “will always
prevail against mere masses of men.”
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BAD CASE OF BACKFIRE
Lavrenti P. Beria, “liquidated” chief of the dread
ed and powerful secret police under Stalin, may be
gone—but he seems not to be forgotten.
Vladimir Petrov, one of Beria’s boys, who was de
tailed to the Kremlin’s Australian embassy in 1951,
went “over the hill” and asked the Australians for
asylum. Later Soviet guards bungled the job of spirit
ing his wife out of the country by plane. And she was
rescued by Australian officials to join her husband in
a secret hiding-place.
Three days later, Captain Nikolai Khokhlov of
the Russian secret police and two East German Com
munist agents gave themselves up to American author
ities in Bonn, West Germany. They also delivered to
U.S. intelligence agents detailed information on the
MVD secret police set-up and new, silent, electrically
fired weapons with which they were sent to kill a
Russian underground leader. The three, who had been
given special assassination training in Russia, gave
themselves up after Khokhlov’s wife pleaded with him
not to become a murderer.
Thus, there may be hope that Russia is becoming
too bloody even for the Russians.
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American Civilian Pilot
Is First U.S. Casualty of
Battle for Dien Bien Phu
HONG KONG, UR— An Ameri
can civilian pilot flying supplies
to besieged French Union forces
at Dien Bien Phu is the first U.S.
casualty of the bloody battle for
that Indochina fortress, officials
of Civil Air Transport said here
Tuesday.
The flier is Paul Robert Holeen
of Greenleaf, Kan., who suffered
severe wounds in his right side
and right arm when Communist
anti-aircraft fire hit his plane
over Dien Bien Phu.
Holden is the third listed Amer
ican casualty of the eight-year-old
Indochina War. Two American
women, employes of the U.S. con
sulate at Saigon, were slain on
March 8, 1948, by a Vietminh am
bush outside Saigon. They were
identified as Mrs. Jeanne R.
Skewes and Lydia Ruth James.
Civil Air Transport officials
said Holden’s condition is serious
but not critical.
Voroshilov Re-Elected
President of U.S.S.R.
MOSCOW, UR—'The Soviet Par
liament re-elected Marshal Klem
enti Y. Voroshilov president of its
Presidium—in effect President of
the U.S.S.R.—by acclamation yes
terday. The lawmakers also con
firmed Premier Georgi Malenkov
and his council of ministers in
office.
James W. Huston
Named Director of
Alaska Public Works
From the Office of the Governor
JUNEAU—Secretary of the In
terior Douglas McKay Tuesday
advised Gov. Heintzleman of the
appointment of James W. Huston
as director of Alaska Public
Works with headquarters in Ju
neau.
Mr. Huston was resident engin
eer in full charge of all new mili
tary construction on Elmendorf
Air Force Base and Fort Richard
son from 1947 until last Septem
ber. He was stationed in Juneau
from 1942 to 1947 as area engineer
in charge of all military construc
tion in southeastern Alaska.
The new APW director has held
responsible civilian technical and
administrative positions with the
Army Corps of Engineers in the
engineering field for approvi
mately 30 years, a major portion
of this time being spent in Alaska.
He has been licensed as a civil
engineer in the territory since
1944 and is a member of the Am
erican Society of Civil Engineers
and the Society of American Mili
tary Engineers. He is a native of
Montana.
Huston will fill the vacancy
created by the resignation of Don
aid Wilson.
Heintzleman said Huston is in
the Washington office now where
he will remain for a short time
1 before assuming his duties in Ju
neau.
Sen. Butler Says Efforts to Remove
Heintzleman ‘Politically Inspired !
WASHINGTON, UP—Sen. But- s
ler (R-Neb> says efforts to remove i
Alaska’s Gov. B. Frank Heintzle- j
man are “politically inspired.”
And he says he’s confident that I
Alaskans “will not respond to this
purely political attack” upon the
governor.
In a statement published in the
Congressional Record Tuesday,
Butler said Heintzleman has given
a “quarter-century of valiant, un
selfish service to the territory”
and deserves the highest commen
dation and unstinting support of
the people of Alaska.”
He said the attack on Heintzle
man “has been instigated by one
Stanley McCutcheon, an Anchor
age office seeker who is running
this year for a seat ip the territor
ial legislature.
He said McCutcheon, as a mem
ber of the territorial legislature,
“actively supported and voted for
legislation creating the Alaska
Aeronautics Commission . . . (and)
subsequently . . . got himself hired
as attorney for this same execu
tive agency of the territory and
drew at least $5,628 in fees for
legal services over an eight
month’s period . . .”
Butler continued:
“'Many of us also recall the in
famous Palmer land deal which
was first disclosed cm this floor,
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on July 7, 1950. This same Mc
Cutcheon played a leading role in
this episode of widespread cor
ruption in Alaska under the
Gruening administration which
was the subject of an investiga
tion by the Senate committee on
expenditures in the executive de
partments.
“McCutcheon was among those
who were called to account by the
committee, which found that ‘as
a result of collusion between ter
ritorial and CAA officials there
was an attempt to shift the entire
cost of the new improvements on
the Palmer airport to the federal
governments’ ...” I
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Sen. McCarthy
“Explodes” Over
Schine Questions
WASHINGTON, W — Sen. Mc
Carthy exploded with violent pro
tests today against questions as
to whether Pvt. David Schine
hired fellow soldiers to clean his
rifle and told his commander he
was in the Army to modernize
and streamline it.
Ray H. Jenkins, special counsel
to the Senate Investigations sub
committee was putting the ques
tions to Secretary of the Army
Stevens at the televised hearings
on McCarthy’s row with Army
officials.
And Stevens with some laugh
ter was nodding “I heard it.”
McCarthy shouted that Jenkins’
questions were Completely unfair
to Schine and that they might
create the impression that the
questions were facts.
McCarthy said that if charges
were to be made against Schine,
a central figure in the contro
versy, he should be made a party
to the investigation. Chairman
Mundt broke in to say that Schine
would be called as a witness in
due course.
Jenkins also had asked whether
Stevens ever heard that Schine,
while at Ft. Dix, N.J., invariably
rode in the cab of the truck
while other soldiers were packed
in the truck like cattle or sheep.
“r never heard of that,” Stev
ens replied.
No British Intervention
In Indochina During
Geneva Conference
LONDON, {ff>—Prime Minister
Churchill announced! yesterday
Britain was not prepared to un
dertake any military action in
Indochina while the Geneva Asian
conference was still in session.
Churchill was replying to a
question by opposition leader
Clement Attlee on the Paris meet
ing of the Western Big Three for
eign ministers which preceded the
current 19-nation Geneva parley.
France is reported to have asked
for military assistance in Indo
china, but both the United States
and Britain are understood to
have turned down immediate big
scale military intervention.
Atlee asked whether there was
any possibility of putting the In
dochinese matter ahead of Korea
“with a view to getting some kind
of standstill arrangement.
“I am sure that is one of the
matters which will be considered
at Geneva,” Churchill replied.
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