Gen. Collins Savs
“Smack” Was
. Sound Operation
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WASHINGTON, M — Gen. J.
Lawton Collins said Saturday
Korea’s “Operation Smack” was
a “perfectly sound and legitimate
Voperation.” He angrily denied it
was a specially staged event.
Collins, the Army chief of staff,
flew in from Korea Saturday. He
has been asked to supply details
of the operation—a combat raid
carried out last Sunday before
visiting generals and war cor
respondents—at a public hearing
of the House Armed Services
Committee Tuesday.
Preliminary checks have con
vinced chairman of the Senate
and House Armed Services Com
mittee that Operation Smack was
a proper military operation, not
a show for visitors.
Collins took the same stand at
the airport, saying that such oper
ations had been carried out many
times before and would be again.
He said it was “by no means any
demonstration for visiting fire
men or the press.”
Infantry Commander Says
Congressional Ire
Was Uncalled For
WITH THE U.S. 7th DIVISION,
Korea, til*—The man who com
manded the ground assault in Op
eration Smack said Saturday the
attack was necessary and that his
outfit would make raids of the
same kind in the future.
Maj. Warren Phillips, Eugene,
Ore., commander of an infantry
battalion, said the ire sparked in
the United States Congress over
the operation was “uncalled for,
probably due to a lack of civil
ian understanding of what we
did.”
Phillips said his outfit had
made several previous attempts to
get a prisoner in the T-bone hill
area west of Commorwon and had
failed.
No Communist prisoners of war
were captured in the operation.
The Eighth Army officially an
nounced American casualties as
three killed and 61 wounded.
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Secretary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlett
telegate in Congress fiom Alaska
Lesislation allowing gold to
seek its own price was introduced
this week by Delegate Bartlett in
a measure permitting the sale of
gold on the open market within
the United States, Alaska and
other territories and possessions
and the exportation of gold with
out any restrictions.
Eight other bills affecting Al
aska were sponsored by Alaska’s
delegate aside from this measure,
the 14 private bills and the bills
relating to the elective governor
and lieutenant governor and sur
vey of Alaska’s timber resources.
These eight bills would provide
for lifetime appointment of feder
al judges in the territory to re
place the four-year terms now
allowed by law; permit the re
moval of volcanic ash from por
tions of Katmai National Monu
ment to aid in the development of
building materials in Alaska; call
upon the Bureau of Labor Statis
tics to report to Congress at least
every two years on cost-of-living
and other statistics; allow mineral
leasing on school sections in Alas
ka in connection with oil, gas, oil
shale, phosphate, sodium and po
tassium; permit the registration
of judgments in or from the dis- ;
trict court for the Territory of!
Alaska; extend the Federal De- ^
claratory Judgments Act to Alas- ‘
ka; redefine the boundary be- |
tween the Second and Fourth j
Divisions in Alaska in order to!
have the boundary line corres- !
pond with the natural dividing
lines of the area such as rivers i
and mountain ridges; and permit |
the payment of travel expenses
for federal employees newly ap
pointed within Alaska for posi
tions within the territory.
This last measure would place
Alaskans on an equal footing with
residents of the continental Uni
ted States whose travel expenses j
and expenses of transportation of
household goods and personal ef
fects are paid by the federal gov
ernment when sent to assign
ments outside the continental Uni
ted States.
Moose Menace Motorists
ANCHORAGE, UP) — “SLOW.
MOOSE CROSSING.”
That’s the kind of sign along
the Glenn Highway for which res
idents of the village of Chugiak
•are petitioning the Fish and Wild
life Service.
In a recent week a moose was
killed and the front of an auto
mobile demolished in one high
way encounter, and two' other
cars were badly damaged after
swerving from the road to avoid
a moose in another incident.
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News Story That Pribilof
Sea Herds Are Dying
Is Surprise To FWS
JUNEAU, W*!—If Pribilof Island
seals are dying out through rav
ages of a mysterious disease, as
the magazine Newsweek stated
Jan. 19, it’s news to the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service officials who
are the seals’ wardens.
Assisant Alaska FWS Director
Howard Baltzo made that state
ment last week referring to an
article in Newsweek which said
the Pribilof seal herd was dying
out because of mysterious ailment
which apparently attacks the
males.
Baltzo said the item was ap
parently a garbled or misinter
preted version of a report on sea
otters issued by the FWS, which
said some 35 otters captured on
Amchitka Island all died from
one to nine days after being
caught, all males.
Baltzo said a lack of money and
men now restricts FWS, but that
he hoped the service would get
enough money from the new Con
gress to expand.
He said the U.S. Public Health
Service was cooperating in the
research because the disease
which killed the otter might af
fect man.
Baltzo also revealed that otter,
once hunted nearly to extinction,
were now making a strong come
back in the Aleutian Chain and
added that “sometime in the fu
iure we may be able to take an
annual harvest of otter somewhat
the way we do with Pribilof seals
now.”
Sniffing, or rubbing noses, is a
polite form of greeting among
many peoples from the Tropics
to the Arctic.
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