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Deadly New
Weapons Slated
For U.S. Services
WASHINGTON, fi<P) — Better
standard arms and deadly new
ones—from faster jet warplanes
and mightiest aircraft carriers to
atomic warfare—are giving fierc
er striking power to an American
armed force unchanged in size.
That is the picture presented,
directly and indirectly, in a semi
annual report of the defense es
tablishment issued Thursday, a
report which showed manpower
strength static at 3,000,000.
In his portion of the report,
Secretary of Defense Lovett
wrote soberly of the difficulties
arising from rising costs for arms
or production problems stemming
from various causes including
strikes and of the need for a con
tinued high level of draft calls
to keep the strength of the army
up.
But, in a look back over the
two years of what he termed par
tial mobilization, he said the U.S.
“increased its actual and poten
tial military strength to a level
which should give pause to even
the most reckless aggressor.”
The accompanying reports of
the Army, Navy and Air Force
secretaries presented some flat
statements and some interesting
hints of the weapons the services
have or are developing and the
training for their use.
Secretary of the Air Force Fin
letter’s report also contained a
laconic reference to studies, of
“the problem of protection of air
crews during the delivery of
atomic weapons and in the sub
sequent process of decontamina
tion of equipment.”
So far as is known, there is
no' contamination produced from
the mere presence of an unex
ploded atomic bomb aboard an
aircraft.
This, therefore, left open to
speculation the possibility that
Finletter was speaking of the
carrying of radiological warfare I
weapons in planes.
These would be devices for re
leasing aerosol clouds or dust,
either in sprays or through the
dropping of containers with
bursting charges.
14,000 Aliens In Alaska
And Pacific NW Must
Register by Jan. 10
SEATTLE, (JP)—District Immi
gration Director John P. Boyd
estimated Friday about 14,000
aliens in the Pacific Northwest
states, and Alaska will have to
register under the new immigra
tion law.
He issued a reminder that they
must register their January ad
dresses. An alien who is tempor
arily absent on Jan. 1 is suposed
to report his address within 10
days.
Alaska Engineer
Refutes Criticism
Of Housing Work
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Col. L. H.
Foote, Alaska District Engineer,
said Wednesday in reply to a
criticism by congressional investi
gation, that military housing is
being constructed with maximum
economy to meet military needs.
A special subcommittee of the
House Committee on Government
Operations charged Tuesday the
military is using substandard ma
terials at too high a cost with in
adequate supervision.
Colonel Foote stated:
“Housing presents no more of a
problem than other defense con
struction here. In the interests of
maximum economy to meet mili
tary needs, we utilize austere de
sign, with construction standards
which have been specified and
approved at high Defense Depart
ment levels in Washington, D.C.
“For instance, we frequently
use soft wood instead of hard
wood for flooring and we specify
pressed metal for bath tubs rath
er than expensive cast iron tubs.
“We specify cost-consciousness
construction methods. Naturally,
a contractor does not incorporate
more expensive methods than are
required.
“It is our established practice
in defense construction to require
contractors to correct defects; we
withhold payments until defects
are satisfactorily corrected.
“At the height of the construc
tion season we have had 75 in
pectors on housing alone. During
the slack period of the Alaska
winter, we have used as few as
three inspectors on interior hous
ing finishes.”
The House committee said only
19 officers were supervising the
program, with the number at one
time as low as three.
PIONEER ALASKA AVIATOR
DIES OF HEART ATTACK
JUNEAU, (/P)—Alexander Hol
den, pioneer Pacific Coast and
Alaska aviator, died in Rochester,
Minn., Thursday of a heart at
tack, friends were advised here.
Holden ws one of the first air
mail pilots to fly from Seattle to
Alaska. At his death he was co
manager of the Alaska Coastal
Airlines.
He was a Royal Canadian Air
Force flyer in World War I, with
the rank of major.
Samuel Peters, 43, Named Chief
Pilot, PAA Pacific-Alaska Div.
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)-^Sam
uel T. Peters, 43, of Concord,
Calif., has been named chief pilot
for Pan American World Airway’s
Pacific-Alaska division.
Clarence M. Young, executive
vice president for Pan American,
said Thursday the job is the top
flying post for the division.
Peters joined the air line as
a mechanic in 1931. He became
a pilot in 1937.
State Dept. Lists
11 Suspected Reds
On U. N. Payroll
WASHINGTON. iVP) — The
State Department has named 11
U.S. citizens on the United Na
tions payroll as persons it be
lieves are “Communists or under
Communist discipline.”
The Senate Internal Security
subcommittee made the list pub
lic Thursday, along with the
names of 27 others who have been
dropped from the U.N. payrolls
on similar security' charges.
Secretary of State Acheson tes
tified before a House Judiciary
subcommittee Wednesday conced
ing that State Department loyal
ty checks On U.N. job applicants
“had not been a great success.”
Acheson insisted, however, that
national security had not been en
dangered by this.
A State Department memoran
dum, released by the Internal Se
curity subcommittee Thursday,
said 11 Americans remain on
U. N. payrolls although the De
partment has told the U.N. they
are considered to be of “Com
munist identification.” They were
named as:
David Weintraub, director of
the U. N. division of Economic
Stability and Development; Henry
S. Bloch, Abraham Nadel, Irene
Pogcfrelsky, Rhoda Rastoff, Anna
Rubinstein, Lena Spiegel, Evelyn
Thaler, Dimitry Varley, Marshall
Wolfe and David Zablodowski.
The 11 were named in a mem
orandum made public over objec
tions of John D. Hickerson, assist
ant Secretary of State, who cau
tioned that the State Department
could have erred by wrongfully
naming some persons or by fail
ing to name some who should be
named. He emphasized that none
of the adverse reports was based
on sworn testimony, and that
those named had been given no
hearings.
Weintraub angrily denied he
was a Communist or had ever
engaged in any disloyal or sub
versive activities and said he had
so sworn under oath to both the
federal grand jury and the Mc
Carran committee.
Miss Thaler won praise from
the Senate Internal Security sub-.'
committee last Dec. 11 when she
readily testified she had renounc
ed Communism two years before
and she believed the Communist
party to be subversive in the U.S.
OMAK, Wash., (/P)—Two flying
farmers who were herding horses
from the air were killed when
their plane crashed west of here
Thursday.
Burt and Howard Evans, Okan
ogan brothers who had ranches
on the Colville Indian Reserva
tion near here died when their
light plane caught on a power
line and plowed into a hillside.
New Broad Policy
Shift Indicated by
Reds In Germany
BERLIN, The Soviet high
command in Germany has indi
cated to the Western allies that
some new, broad shift in Kremlin
policy may be in the making
within the next two months.
Eor that period, general of the
army Vassily Chutkov said he
would be without authority to
take up any policy question with
the western high commissioners.
Chuikov made this clear at a
yer'r-end meeting with acting U.S.
High Commissioner Samuel
Reber, who paid a courtesy call
at the Karlshorst headquarters.
Reber said in an interview he
had suggested solutions for sev
eral problems incident to the cold
war.
The Commissioner did not say
what the problems were. Stand
ing points of disagreement, how
ever, are known to be the inter
zonal trade situation, the block
ing of Allied patrols from the
East German part of the auto
bahn leading to Berlin, the Soviet
zone’s strangling of German traf
fic in and out of West Berlin, and
the Communist blocking of tele
phone communications with the
Soviet sector.
Chuikov told the American
commissioner that for several
months he would be unable to
take up any questions of this
nature.
American High Commission au
thorities speculated that the
freeze order from Moscow may
be based on a Kremlin belief that
a Big Two meeting of Prime
Minister Stalin and President
elect Eisenhower is a possibility.
Fairbanks Flier Bails Out
Over Rose Bowl Game
PASADENA, Calif., (/P) — Rob
ert Harold Sinclair, 26, has a
cut hand—and no picture of the
Rose Bowl football game from
the air.
He bailed out of a tiny plane
at an estimated 2,700 feet over
the bowl at half time Thursday,
giving spectators an unexpected
thrill. His red shirt shone bril
liantly in the clear sky.
He said later he wanted a good
football action shot from above,
but he cut his hand tumbling
from the plane and couldn’t op
erate his small camera.
Guiding hs ’chute away from
the bowl, Sinclair, of Fairbanks,
landed 20 feet from a gate. De
puty Sheriff R. L. Bylsma was
waiting. Sinclair and two friends
who showed up, Dave Burt, 25,
and Art Frank, 27, got a free
ride to the police station for
questioning.
Police later released them but
said they would refer the matter
to the Civil Aeronautics author
ities.
New Congress
Urged Revamp
McCarran Act
WASHINGTON, (JP) — A presi
dential commission urged the new
Congress Thursday night to re
verse its predecessor and revamp
the controversial McCarran-Wal
ter Immigration Act “from be
ginning to end.”
The seven-member commission
named by President Truman call
ed for (1) abolition of the 31-year
old national origins quota system
and for (2) lowering existing bars
to admit some 100,000 additional
immigrants annually.
These and scores of other rec
ommendations proposed by the
group would require a complete
overhaul of the McCarran-Walter
legislation which Congress en
acted last June over Truman’s
veto. Since then President - elect
Eisenhower has joined in criticiz
ing “ unfair ” provisions of the
act. He said during the campaign
these should be repealed.
The commission, headed by for
mer Solicitor General Philip B.
Perlman, assailed the McCarran
act in term as sharp as those Tru
man used in his veto message.
The concensus of the hearings,
the commission told Truman, was
that the legislation which went
into effect Dec. 24 “injures our
people at home, causes much re
sentment against us abroad and
impairs our position among the
free nations.”
“Our present immigration laws
are rooted in the period of Am
erica’s blindest isolationism,” the
group said in its 316-page report.
Sen. McCarran, co - author of
the act, replied to the report and
contended the act was “tough,
very tough, on Communists, as it
is oh criminals and their sub
versives, and that is why they
are squealing.” *
McCarran said the Senate com
mittee worked five years on the
act and its enactment was recom
mended by federal agencies deal
ing with immigration.
In The Korean War . . .
SEOUL, (jP) — Allied raiders
furiously attacked a Chinese
Communist position near Bunker
Hill on the frozen western Kor
ean front, then withdrew early
Friday.
The U.S. Eighth Army said the
raiders killed or wounded an es
timated 45 Reds in a bitter hour
and a half rifle and hand gre
nade battle before racing back to
their own lines.
The Fifth Air Force said B-26
bombers destroyed five Commun
ist locomotives during night
strikes for the second straight
night. Allied planes shot up 30
boxcars and 40 supply vehicles.
Okinawa-based B-29 Superforts
Thursday night bombed barracks
and marshalling yards near Song
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